Asian Cinema

Asian Cinema

Films from the vanguard of international cinema.

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  • The Woman Who Ran

    Leaving October 1

    Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 77 mins | 2020
    Hong mines wisdom and wit out of a deftly presented and deceptively simple scenario: a young woman’s visits to three of her friends while her husband’s away. In insightful, unpredictable conversations with people at different points in ...

  • This Woman

    Directed by Alan Zhang | 91 mins | 2023
    Feminist activist and multihyphenate artist Zhang’s directorial debut is a raw, often revelatory docufiction experiment that follows Beibei (Li Hehe), a recently unemployed 35-year-old woman who, in the early months of the pandemic, finds solace from an unf...

  • Typhoon Club

    Leaving October 1

    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 themse...

  • 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 Weerasethakul’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 encounter...

  • 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...

  • Agent of Happiness

    Directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó | 93 mins | 2024
    How do you measure joy? For Bhutan—a nation that conceptualized a “gross national happiness" in 1972 and has collected data on its citizens’ satisfaction for almost two decades—the answer might just be mathematical. But the truth is h...