Asian Cinema

Asian Cinema

Films from the vanguard of international cinema.

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Asian Cinema
  • Typhoon Club

    Directed by Shinji Sômai | 115 mins | 1985
    Emotionally raw, enormously tender and, finally, tentatively hopeful, Sômai’s breakthrough film—winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival—observes a group of provincial junior high students who find themselves forced to take...

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 113 mins | 2010
    Winner of the 2010 Palme d’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong’s film follows its fatally ill title character (Thanapat Saisaymar) on a final pilgrimage of sorts, traveling the countryside of Thailand’s rural northeast where he encounters long-lost lo...

  • Will You Look At Me

    Directed by Shuli Huang | 20 mins | 2022
    Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes 2022, Shuli Huang’s evocative Super 8 confessional tracks the queer filmmaker’s return to his hometown of Beijing and the ensuing conversation with his mother, long disapproving of her son’s sexuality and his pursuit of a...