A Window on Asian Cinema

• Royston TAN
• Singapore/Thailand
• 2021
• 77min

Two men are passionately engaging in a sexual romp in a bedroom, when a sound engineer suddenly appears, unnoticed. He is in the process of capturing sounds for a very specific col...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Irfana MAJUMDAR
• India
• 2021
• 93min

Lucknow, northern India, in 1962. In the upper-class family of a high-ranking police officer, Shankar is an indispensable servant. To Anjana who attends a Catholic school and her l...

• 로카르노영화제 현재의감독경쟁

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Brillante Ma MENDOZA
• Philippines/Japan
• 2021
• 110min

Disability is not a subject to overcome but to be embraced. Nao Tsuyama dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, being an handicapped person with a prosthetic leg due to a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ilgar NAJAF
• Azerbaijan/France/Germany
• 2021
• 86min

What was life like in a communist collective farm during World War II? Sughra’s Sons is a film about a historical tragedy that took place in a small village. The head of the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Madhuja MUKHERJEE
• India
• 2020
• 141min

Mitul is well-educated and has a good job as a journalist. After her grandmother passed away, she lives alone in the old house where her family has lived for generations. Her famil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Behtash SANAEEHA,Maryam MOGHADAM
• Iran/France
• 2021
• 106min

When her husband is executed, the widow pleads that her husband was unjustly killed. The court eventually admits that her husband was mistakenly sentenced to death but indifferentl...

• 베를린영화제 관객상

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shawkat Amin KORKI
• Iraq/Germany/Qatar/Kurdistan
• 2021
• 89min

Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki won the New Currents Award at BIFF with his film Kick Off (2009). His latest work The Exam, which comes after a long hiatus since ...

• 카를로비바리영화제 FIPRESCI상, 2018 APM 프로젝트

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kavich NEANG
• Cambodia/France/China/Qatar
• 2021
• 91min

The White Building was once an icon of the successful urbanization and modernization of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. As it decays, its residents are leaving one by one. The...

• 베니스영화제 오리종티 남우주연상, 2016 APM 프로젝트

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Aizhana KASSYMBEK
• Kazakhstan
• 2020
• 82min

Tolik, a bread delivery man, lives with his pregnant wife Altynai, his two daughters? Saule who is about to enter college and her younger sister? and a somewhat selfish father. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bao LE
• France/Singapore/Germany
• 2020
• 98min

Bassley has traveled all the way to Vietnam from Nigeria as a professional football player. One day he is injured and as a result, is expelled from the team. He cannot tell his fam...

• 베를린영화제 엔카운터 심사위원특별상