Asian Cinema
South and southeastern asian cinema. Excluding: China, Taiwan, HK, Japan, Korea.
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- DirectorHao ZhengStarsJiseung ChoSet in ancient Mongolia, a man spent years seeking redemption after abandoning his mother when he was a child.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsTadanobu AsanoAmadu MamadakovKhulan ChuluunThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
- DirectorMariko BobrikStarsThang Long DoLena NguyenAleksandra DomanskaA Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.
- DirectorEric KhooStarsTakumi SaitôSeiko MatsudaMark LeeA young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsAnita LindaRustica CarpioTanya GomezTwo elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.
- DirectorColin GohYen Yen WooStarsRichard LowZioZio LimSerene ChenWhen Loh wins the lottery, his family believes the money will deliver them from their struggles. However, he dies abruptly, pitching the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.
- DirectorJack NeoStarsJack NeoYun XiangRichard LowStory about life of 3 EM3's student in Singapore, who struggling with their education and personal life.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoTian Wen ChenAngeli BayaniIn 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
- DirectorBee Thiam TanStarsYaoGuat Kian GohJalyn HanAh Bee goes on a comedic odyssey through Tiong Bahru Social Club, a data-driven project to create the happiest neighborhood in the world. Little by little, his encounters with the neighborhood's residents reveal the absurdity of life.
- DirectorCarlo Francisco ManatadStarsCharo Santos-ConcioDaniel PadillaRans RifolIn the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, in the Philippines, a young man is searching for a missing significant other as other storm approaches.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsArawinda KiranaAsmara AbigailSekar SariIn her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.
- DirectorCuong le MyThe journey follows a rare surviving burdock of ancient folk opera, wandering through communal houses, ancient temples in the Western provinces of the South of Vietnam.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsJinpaShide NyimaTsemdo TharTharlo is an orphan who lives a simple life, but could a brief encounter with a woman in his local town change his life for ever?
- DirectorDechen RoderStarsJamyang Jamtsho WangchukSonam Tashi ChodenChencho DorjiIn remote Bhutan, an undercover detective investigates the case of a missing Buddhist nun and falls into a risky alliance with his only suspect - an alluring young woman known as the village "demoness".
- DirectorAndrew AhnStarsLucas JayeHong ChauBrian DennehyA lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, and ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
- DirectorAmit DubeyStarsHorn Chun MengKunthul VannChea VannsotheaA cricket seller's son is faced with the arrival of his father's new bride and her daughter.
- DirectorNamronStarsZahiril AdzimRosdeen SubohArio BayuIn the outskirts and back-alleys of Kuala Lumpur, several individuals with money problems struggle to get their lives straight, finding their paths unexpectedly intersecting - with fatal results.
- DirectorJun LanaStarsChristian BablesGina AlajarNico AntonioThe film follows Dharna/Panfilo Macaspac, Jr's quest, a gay beautician who is determined to clear his name after he found he was included in a drug watchlist.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranMan San LuThi Loc TruongA Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
- DirectorBene Dion RajagukgukStarsArswendy Bening SwaraTika PanggabeanBoris BokirA married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.
- DirectorAngelina JolieStarsSareum Srey MochPhoeung KompheakSveng SocheataCambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsHappy SalmaLaura BasukiArswendy Bening SwaraNana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.
- DirectorKavich NeangStarsChunnat PokKimleang SoNary BunThe White Building, an iconic structure home to 493 families in Phnom Penh, faces demolition. In the building's final days, Kavich Neang follows three families, including his own, as they pack belongings, share memories and anxieties, and eventually move out before the building's total destruction.
- DirectorKavich NeangStarsPiseth ChhunHout SithornOk SokhaSamnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
- DirectorKirsten TanStarsPenpak SirikulThaneth WarakulnukrohSasapin SiriwanijOn a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.