Dir. Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso

Italy, Singapore / 2014  / 88 mins

Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Garin Nugroho, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang give voice to a region rich with traditions, ethnic groups, languages, politics, and religions. It is cinema, at its purest form, fighting for freedom of expression, documenting real lives of ordinary people, giving voice to the underdogs and the outcasts. The amalgamation of these aspects gives birth to an ultra-neo-realistic cinema language currently unique to films from this region.

 

 

Dir. Otsu Koshiro , Daishima Haruhiko

Japan / 2014  / 140 mins

The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories returns to visit the farmers who once rose in resistance against the Japanese government, that abruptly and arbitrarily announced a plan to build an airport in the rural Sanrizuka district of the city of Narita in 1966. Their lives were forever altered by the building of Narita International Airport – today Tokyo s hub for international air traffic, with over 600 flights taking off and landing every day.

 

Dir. Frederick Wiseman

The United Kingdom / 2014 / 180 mins

 

National Gallery  takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings.

 

 

Dir. Kim Longinotto

The United Kingdom / 2014 / 70 mins

 

Love is All takes us on a journey through the twentieth century, exploring love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval. This is the celluloid story of love and courtship since the birth of the movie camera; told with spellbinding footage from the British Film Institute archive and Yorkshire Film Archive and many more!

 

 

Dir. Chinlin Hsieh / Taiwan /  2014  / 110 mins

 

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema  bring audiences to a journey from Taipei to Chiang Mai, Paris, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing where, a remarkable list of filmmakers, critics and artists telling us what this cinema means to them, how it influenced their work, and what is left of that legacy today.

 

 

Lucid Reminsiscence
Dir. Wattanapume Laisuwanchai / Thailand / 2015  / 14 mins

 

The film is made as a memory of forgotten movie theaters hidden in various parts of Bangkok by connecting stories and memories of the film fans, in order to revive these old movie theaters again.

 

 

Dir. LEE Sang-ho, AHN Hea-ryong / Korea / 2014 / 77 mins

 

On April 16th, 2014, the ferry Sewol sank off in the southwestern coast of Korea. Only 174 out of 476 passengers managed to escape. While covering the story, the journalist LEE Sang-ho learns of  diving bell , a rigid chamber which enables the divers to stay underwater much longer. Meanwhile the media makes haste to report the diving bell which never had a chance to hit the water as a ‘failure’.

 

 

Dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich / The Netherlands / 2001 / 90 mins

 

This film gives us a very close portrait of everyday life in an ordinary Indonesian family in Jakarta: Rumidja, her sons Bakti and Dwi and her friend Ibu Sum. Not rich, not poor. This family has to deal with the paucity of food: in order to satisfy their daily needs, Rumidja and Ibu Sum travel by train to their place of birth in the middle of Java to help their family with the rice harvest. In the city of Jakarta there is a crisis because of the crises the students and population force President Suharto to step down.

 

 

Dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich / The Netherlands / 2004 / 92 mins

 

Rumidjah, a 62-year-old Christian widow, has had more than enough of Jakarta s chaos of these last years. When her son Bakti converts to Islam to marry a Muslim girl, she seriously considers leaving the hectic city forever and moving to the safety of the countryside.

 

 

Dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich / The Netherlands / 2010 / 109 mins

 

The Indonesian Sjamsuddin family is the microcosm depicting most important issues of life in Indonesia: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap and the growing difference between poor and rich.

 

Dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich / The Netherlands / 2006 / 52 mins

In a suburb in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, encased in a cardboard television set, troubadour Agus Nur Amal re-enacts the September 11 - 2001 attacks in New York in front of a public of children, using the packaging of a toy featuring the World Trade Centre and a weird looking fish-plane.

 

 

Dir.Zaw Naing Oo / Myanmar / 2014 / 22 mins

 

Governments – even decades-old military regimes – may come and go but, like many rural communities in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the lives of the villagers of Pyun Su on the banks of Moe Yun Gyi lake are pervaded by deeper traditions – above all the lively cult of the nat.

 

 

Dir. Guillaume Suon / Cambodia, France / 2014  / 66  mins

 

The Storm Makers intimately captures the stories of three Cambodians: two human traffickers and a victim. It highlights the consequences of the trafficking business on their individual fates and shows how their humanity ends trapped by this invisible plague.

 

 

Dir. Nguyen Thi Tham / Vietnam / 2014 / 86 mins

 

Where does theatre begin and real life end? Endearing Madame Phung and her transvestite singers travel around Vietnam, sparking fascination and hostility from the local people.

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Dir. Jlrudtikal Prasonchoom, Pasit Tandaechanurat / Thailand /  2014 / 19 mins

 

This documentary focuses on Karen villagers in the North of Thailand, the “Pgaz K Nyau” (Simple humans), experiencing the changes after the Thai government s recent attempt to make their forest a national park and build a dam on their land.

 

 

Dir. Rowena Sanchez, Charena Escala / The Philippines / 2014 / 69 mins

 

Nick and Chai lost their four children to Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. They are attempting to build a meaningful life from what is left. What s keeping them going is the memory of their selfless love for their children and the firm belief that they will one day be reunited.

 

 

Dir. Lei Yuan Bin / Singapore / 2014 / 90 mins

 

03-FLATS follows the domestic experiences of three single women who are at different stages of their lives. It records how domestic resilience might resist the ennui of mass housing, turning housing into home.

 

 

Dir. Ariani Djalai / Indonesia / 2014 / 89 mins

 

An observational documentary about the end of childhood, describing how young Muslim girls grow up in Indonesia s middle class of today.

Die before Blossom portrays two families during a decisive period of their daughters school careers in   Yogyakarta. In the meantime, the public education system in Indonesia is changing under the politics parties keening on religion.