A Window on Asian Cinema

• Asoka HANDAGAMA
• SriLanka
• 2018
• 98min

The director Asoka Handagama is well known for breaking taboos in style and content, ever since his career started in theater and television. One night, Asandhi calls a renowned fi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jafar PANAHI
• Iran
• 2018
• 100min

A famous actor and director visit a mountain village to reveal the authenticity of a video sent by a young girl. The visit confirms the issues of gender, rural conservatism, differ...

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A Window on Asian Cinema

• Daniel HUI
• Singapore
• 2018
• 83min

When Vicki gets a role in Daniel′s new theatre production, she thinks she has gotten the chance of her life. Little does she know this is only the beginning of repeated abuse by Da...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Farkhat SHARIPOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2018
• 120min

Bank teller Kanat lives alone with his mother. He is the head of the household of a broken family, one often portrayed in Central Asian films. The Secret of a Leader tells t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mike DE LEON
• Philippines
• 2018
• 137min

This is the first film by director Mike De Leon, who has been working since the 1970s and has released numerous controversial works, in 18 years. As Francis Joseph A. Cruz mentione...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Devashish MAKHIJA
• India
• 2018
• 134min

Bhonsle comes from a noble class and stubbornly refuses to engage with other people. He’s a longtime veteran policeman, but lacks sympathy for others. One day, he gets new neighbor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YING Liang
• Taiwan,Hong Kong,China,Singapore,Malaysia
• 2018
• 107min

Because of films criticizing the Chinese government, director Yang can’t make films in China anymore and has been living in Hong Kong for five years like as a political refugee. Wi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bat-Amgalan LKHAGVAJAV,Ian ALLARDYCE
• Mongolia,UK
• 2018
• 85min

They Sing up on the Hill is a film that expands the perception of what Mongol means in the world. Instead of ambitiously revealing the whole of Mongolia, or the entirety of ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Garin NUGROHO
• Indonesia
• 2018
• 106min

Wahyu Juno, who was abandoned in a village in Central Java, joins a Lengger dance troupe of traditional Indonesian male cross-dressers performing as female dancers. Growing up betw...

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A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zhangke JIA
• China,France
• 2018
• 136min

This is the latest film by Jia Zhangke, the director most representative of Chinese art cinema. In 2001, in Datong, Shanxi, China, local beauty Qiao Qiao and Bin, a young tough, ar...

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