Asian Film Database
A Cityscape, Without Her (2003) |
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| 6min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Kohei Usuda (Japan) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A Cityscape, Without Her is a portrait of the city of Toronto. The film depicts the city in the chromatic procedure in the literal sense of the words. This is done by presenting the architecture, the colours of the changing seasons, the lights of the day, and so on. At the same time this procedure is complemented by the emotion and activity of the people documented in the successive montage of still photographs. (Vtape) |
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A Dragged Out Affair: The Musical (2010) |
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| Drama, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Sonia Hong |
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| Awards: | Charles Street Video Award, Best Up-and-Coming Toronto Film or Video maker, presented to a local first-time filmmaker |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A quirky musical short that challenged the gender paradigms within the Drag community. (Sonia Hong) |
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A Film (1980) |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A filmgoer's sleepless cinematic-induced coma comes to life. (midionodera.com) |
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A Long Distance Call (2008) |
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| 12min. Animation, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Joe Chang (China) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The film is about a young artist who goes to a secluded mountainous area in southern China. To her shock, the village was very aged with a sparse population. This film shows the emotions between a farmer's parents and their children remaining in the rural area. (West Chester Film Festival) |
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A Midsummer's Wake (2014) |
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| 71min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Lea (Kim Prangley) and Andrew (Bashar Shbib) have been complacently married for over 15 years. Lea's inability to bear children is what has caused the biggest rift in their union. When Andrew dies of a sudden heart attack, Lea's friends surround her for comfort and support. As they gather for a weekend to mourn the loss of their loved one, these five women of various ages come to strengthen the ties that bind them to one another. (www.sunsetpictures.ca) |
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A Piece of Work For Myself (1999) |
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| 12min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Lin Tay-jou (Taiwan) |
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| Summary: | The film imparts a message about death to the audience by using a projection technique to reflect the image of death. The director uses the camera to present his will, after death, in an artistic abstractive format. It is a ritual ceremony self-portrayed in a language of darkness. (YunTech) |
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A Solitary Silence (1999) |
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| 5min. Uncategorized, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Gloria Kim (South Korea) |
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A Transsexual Journey: Katherine Elizabeth Cohen (1995) |
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| 44min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Behzad Sedghi (Iran) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | This poignant and informative documentary profiles Katherine Cohen (formerly Bruce Cohen) and her decision to undergo male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. In interviews before the surgery, Cohen discusses her prior life, including a marriage and two children, relations with her family and her lifelong conflicted feelings about her sexuality. In separate interviews conducted a few weeks and a full year after the operation--illustrated in a computer animated sequence--she discusses her decision, her new life and her hopes for the future. (Standford University Libraries) |
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A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) |
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| 12min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Michael Kang (USA) |
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| Summary: | A tranquil evening of sushi turns into an evening of human sashimi as a waiter turns ballistic when pushed one order too far. (Reel Asian) |
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A Warrior's Religion (2009) |
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| 101min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Mani Amar (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Films of Fire Productions |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The South Asian community in Greater Vancouver has been shaken by youth and gang violence. Grim statistics, such as the death of more than 100 South Asian males in their 20s over the past 19 years, show the magnitude of this epidemic. Sikhism is a predominant religion in the South Asian community in Greater Vancouver, and most of the gang-related murder victims are Sikh. Youth and gang violence is not slowing down; violent crimes have been increasing significantly in this community over the past few years. By creating much needed awareness, we have the ability to protect our youth. This documentary was self-financed by Director Mani Amar and took him three years to complete. (http://maniamar.com) |
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A Woman's Story (2014) |
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| 56min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Azra Rashid (Pakistan) |
| Production Company: | The Canada Council For The Arts; Les Productions Point De Vue Inc. |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada, Poland, Bangladesh, Rwanda |
| Summary: | A Woman's Story looks at genocide, survival, and physical and cultural continuity through the eyes of three women who have experienced three different genocides of the twentieth century by putting women at the front and centre of the narrative and transcending their victimization by highlighting their resilience and survival. (IMDb) |
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Aadan (2004) |
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| 8min. Fiction, | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ruba Nadda (Canada) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A young Moslem woman prays every afternoon in front of a busy office in the heart of Toronto… (femfilm.ca) |
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About July (1999) |
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| 72min. Drama, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Wei Te-she (Taiwan) |
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| Summary: | A young man whose father commits suicide as a result of a large gambling debt he cannot repay. In financial straits because of his father and naively enamoured of the gangster lifestyle and its affectations, he goes to work for the gang in charge of the gambling den his father frequented. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Abusive Father (2000) |
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| 2min. Fiction, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Rocky Huang (Taiwan) |
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| Summary: | Abusive Father is an animation intended to shock the viewer and make a permanent impression on them through the horrific act of child abuse. The video starts and ends with a boy standing on a bridge reminiscing the cause of his suicidal mood. Out of mischievousness, the boy pumps up his water gun, aims and sprays water on his father's face while the latter is napping. In an instant, his father turns into a monster and strangles him. The video ends with a statistic of the amount of deaths caused by child abuse, which continues to happen despite the many attempts in our society to prevent it (Vtape). |
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ACCESS DENIED(1995) |
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| 44min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Premika Ratnam (India) |
| Production Company: | ShadowCatcher Productions Inc. |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Combining personal testimonials of immigrant professionals and interviews with spokespersons from regulating bodies and experts in the field of employment equity, the video provides a comprehensive examination of the processes of accreditation and licensing that hinders foreign trained professional from achieving full employment in their areas of expertise. (Vtape) |
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The Ache (2009) |
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| 88min. Uncategorized | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Keith Lock (Canada) |
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| Summary: | The heroine, Sheri, is a young Chinese Canadian who, despite her mother's obsessive fear of anything "dirty," secretly works in a fetish parlour. One day, she comes across a strange woman going through her trash. dis- turbed by what the woman says to her, Sheri asks more questions and discovers the illicit affair of her father, Wooie, and the 10-year-old curse on her family. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
After Car Crash Woman Kills Two (1985) |
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| Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | This short film highlights a woman's obsession with a scar on her otherwise perfect body. (midionodera.com) |
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After the Crescent (1997) |
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| 118min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Bryan Chang (China) |
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| Summary: | Presents several hours in the life of 17 year-old Meme Lam (newcomer Ho Pui-yi, giving a very natural and unaffected performance). Meme's father has been left bewildered by the death of his wife and wanders around in a mental haze. her little brother is irresponsible, and her mildly retarded elder brother requires constant attention. (Meng Gang) |
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Agent X: Report (2003) |
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| 5min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Mishann Lau (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Midnight, in this cold metropolis, is the battleground for espionage, intrigue and secret agents who wear their sunglasses even at night. (Vtape) |
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Aguas de Março (2002) |
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| 3min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Portugese |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Summary: | An animated riff on Jobim's bossa nova classic. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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The Air Cuts (1996) |
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| 44min. Narrative, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Mandarin |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Hong Zhou |
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| Setting: | China |
| Summary: | Shot against the landscape of social and economic changes in Beijing - the destruction of aged houses and the construction of new pillars of skyscrapers - the film collects a string of small events that show human behaviour and its interaction with the surrounding environment that is diffused with an irritating air of crawling anxiety and sexuality. (CFMDC) |
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Al Fat7a (2008) |
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| 7min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Arabic |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Arif Noorani |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Lebanon |
| Summary: | During the Lebanese civil war (1982), a bomb penetrated the wall of a building leaving two openings that remain as a print of a war that once stopping, came back again. One of Noorani's neighbours describes the moment of bombardment and how all confessions from different religions shared the same suffering and pain of a political war. (http://www.zhibit.org/nahedmansour) |
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Aliendog - Life as it is (2001) |
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| 90min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Life as it is is a compilation of episodes from the first webshow broadcast daily on the internet in Canada. The film deals with various aspects of contemporary youth culture. The main characters, Sean (Michael Jorden Colton), a drug dealer, Karen (Maïa Nadon-Chbib), a business student, and others, face a variety of issues ranging from love and drugs to unemployment and the search for identity. In the end, they come to understand that life's basic lessons are universal, no matter the culture of origin. The question is, to live or let live. (www.sunsetpictures.ca) |
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Ali Shan (2009) |
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| 7min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Yung Chang (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A poetic voyage inspired by childhood memories takes director Chang across the ocean to taiwan and a breathtaking sunrise at the peaks of a historical mountain, Ali shan. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
All (2011) |
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| 21min. Narrative, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | mina Shum (Hong Kong) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A found footage narrative. The 'premier west coast chamber group' Standing Wave asked six composers to write original music based on their Vancouver. Filmmaker mina Shum then asked all involved to contribute 50 images of their world and then asked philosophical questions. Narratives form; characters emerge. The film sets to prove that the microcosm is the macrocosm. (Anonymous) |
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All That Rises (2007) |
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| 7min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Daichi Saito (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Double Negative Collective |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone and all that's in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision sounding images, blessed with light and darkness. (lightcone.org) |
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Almost Paradise (2014) |
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| 83min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English, Creole, Pidgin |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Sunset Pictures |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Grenada |
| Summary: | Catherine Enoe is native to Grenada and works as a nurse caring for outpatients. She travels from patient to patient healing them and taking the pulse of contemporary Grenada. She indirectly reveals to us that colonialism is still alive and well in this almost paradise. (www.sunsetpictures.ca) |
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Amalgamations (2012) |
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| 16min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Elaine Poon (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A love story begins between a young poet and his muse in the most improbable of places: a scrap yard. Winner of Best Student Film at Canada International Film Festival and official selection at Cannes Short Corner. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
AMF'S Tiresias (1998) |
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| 4min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Summary: | The myth of Tiresias, revisited. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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Amin (2010) |
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| 120min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Persian |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Shanin Parhami (Iran) |
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| Setting: | Iran, South Korea, Canada |
| Summary: | Amin portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meagre belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kiev, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition. (IMDb) |
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Amnesia (نسیان (2002 |
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| 12min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Shanin Parhami (Iran) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A poetic, performative documentary based on the improvised monologue of veteran actor Shahram Golchin. (shahinparhami.info) |
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Amour Impossible (1983) |
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| 87min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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Ancestries (2014) |
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| 11min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Stephen Chen (Singapore) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | An anagram of "resistance," Ancestries is a layered piece that encodes the dialectics of colonialism, de-sexualization, desire and resistance. An Asian is seduced by, and in turn, seduces a Caucasian whilst simultaneously reframing and performing two arias from Samson et Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns. (CFMDC) |
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And the Sun (2013) |
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| 24min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Korean |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Samuel Kiehon Lee (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Canada Council for the Arts |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | South Korea, Canada |
| Summary: | A tragic teenage love story set in the divided country of Korea. (Samuel Kiehon Lee) |
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And So And So (2000) |
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| 72min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Cantonese |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Kwok Wai-lung (China) |
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| Summary: | A look at life in Hong Kong from an outsiders point of view, exalting the mystery and surprise of ordinary life. This unusual film is composed on ten separate an bizarre stories which are by turns humorous, wistful, romantic and totally unexpected. The offhandedness of the title. And So and So, is deceptive. this is a highly skillfully crafted film. (Reel Asian) |
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Angel (1998) |
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| 5min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Disillusioned with dominant gay style, one man falls from grace. (Reel Asian) |
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Annie Ong: Lost and Found (2004) |
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| 45min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Jeannette Loakman (Canada) |
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| Summary: | It is very rare for a documentary to spawn a sequel, but Annie Ong: Lost and Found follows up the story told in Jeannette Loakman's award-winning debut The Last Seven Days of Annie Ong, also previously shown at Reel Asian. Back then, the adopted Jeannette was looking for her birth mother in Singapore and Malaysia but had no luck finding her. Years later, she receives an email from Holland purportedly coming from her birth mother. Thus begins another journey around the world to find the truth about her adoption. The result is a truly moving portrait of love, loss and reconciliation. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot (2008) |
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| 2min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Leslie Supnet (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Hilarious hand-drawn animated characters debate punk versus metal in a charming tribute to the underground cult classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot by Krulik and Heyn. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Another Western (2006) |
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| 5min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Adeline Huynh (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | http://vision.rcinet.ca/video/21U2NK5UA328/Another-Western/ |
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| Summary: | When she was a little girl, Adeline loved to spend time with her Vietnamese granfather, who was also a good ol' Western cowboy. Looking back on old movies, representation, and cultural appropriation, this story playfully shows how, in Canada, who we are depends on how we see ourselves. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Aporia (2015) |
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| -min. Comedy, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English, Turkish |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Sunset Pictures |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Turkey |
| Summary: | Two Los Angeles sisters, Marguerite (Karen Sedgley) and Sabina (Nancy Wolfe) visit for the first time the city of Istanbul, Turkey to find their missing sister Ariel. Ariel was visiting Istanbul the month before as part of her troubles with her midlife crisis. Her diary becomes their sole guide throughout various landmarks of the city. While searching for her, they meet several characters who take them on their exploration throughout the city. The sisters are forced to re-assess their relationship during the search for Ariel. (www.sunsetpictures.ca) |
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Apricots (Mish Mush) (2010) |
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| 19min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Arabic |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Amar Chebib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Salam Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
| Awards: | Besy International Short Drama at Illinois and Rumschpringe International Film Festivals; Nominated for the Muhr Award for Excellence in Arab Cinema |
| Setting: | Syria |
| Summary: | Upon being drafted for military service, Ahmad, a determined young Syrian poet, decides to flee the country. Consequently, he is forced up against his conservative family and reluctant lover, and must negotiate his way through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Damascus. En route to Lebanon, he discovers himself in an unexpected place, an apricot orchard. (Amar Chebib) |
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Asthma Tech (2006) |
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| 7min. Animated | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Jonathon Ng (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | https://www.nfb.ca/film/asthma_tech |
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| Summary: | In this animated short, young Winston, who suffers from chronic asthma, isn't able to participate in the everyday activities of his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament through his vivid imagination, with paper and crayons. On one particularly rainy afternoon, Winston discovers that the magic of imagination has the power to transform and empower, and his skills and talents save the day. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Around the Corner From Solitude (2008) |
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| 3min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Stefanie Wong (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Sweet raindrop shapes, growing leaves, and dandelions in the wind are amazingly animated through embroidery. While Wong's needle and thread follow an intense labour process, this animation delicately contemplates the passage of time. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Art of Seduction: Mood (My Obscure Object of Desire) (2006) |
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| 2min. Animated | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Canada) |
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| Summary: | In her trademark style, Fleming blends humour and pathos to seduce us with another felightfully quirky stick figure animation. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Art of Woo (2001) |
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| 95min. Comedy, Romance, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Helen Lee (South Korea) |
| Production Company: | Canadian Film Centre |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Alessa Woo, a beautiful and ambitious art curator, poses as a rich Asian heiress to catch her man of means. Alessa's well-laid plans to find her millionaire go awry when Ben Crowchild, a struggling Native artist, moves in next door. A gifted painter, Ben shares his neighbour's affinity for art, as well as an adjoining bathroom. Like Alessa, he also has his secrets. Although she'd be the first to deny it, an immediate, undeniable chemistry exists between Alessa and Ben. Indeed, Alessa has finally met her match. (Telefilm Canada) |
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As It Is Becoming (Beppu, Japan): Kannawa District (2008) |
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| 10min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Jin-me Yoon (South Korea) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Japan |
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Asian Boyfriend (2006) |
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| 1min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Germany |
| Summary: | If you're in the market for a new lover, why not get your very own Asian Boyfriend™! (wayneyung.com) |
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Asian Pride Porn (1999) |
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| 3min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Greg Pak (USA) |
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| Summary: | David Henry Hwang introduces a new wave of erotic ideos with images of confident Asian American men and women. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Asiansploitation (2007) |
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| 8min. Documentary | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Yumi Otagaki (Canada) |
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| Summary: | This mini doc gives us a little insight into the people behind this all-Asian Canadian comedy troupe. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Asturd (2006) |
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| 5min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Philip Jonlin Lee (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Meditating on the real, small hints of life, Philip Jonlin Lee's new work Asturd takes a long look at something seemingly unimportant. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Auditions to be the Next Canadian (2003) |
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| 2min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Samuel Chow (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Can you hit the same notes as Celine Dion? Does that make you Canadian? Join the fun as a first generation Chinese-Canadian auditions for the chance to be the Next Canadian. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Automatic Writing (1996) |
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| 82min. Drama, Biography, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Summary: | Using the adventure-filled diary of her great great grandfather, SoTo-ming, as a guide, the filmmaker explores the nature of biography. (Sleepy Dog Films) A filmmaker employs Automatic Writing to discover the story of her great great grandfather, only to find a whole lot of ancestors lining up to have their story told... their own way. Based on the autobiography "The Doctor Comes Home", by So To ming, who was born during the Boxer Rebellion, was orphaned, kidnapped, taken to America to work on a brothel, and returned to china to become a doctor and start a nursing hospital. and had an interesting relationship with his family. (IMDB) |
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AUTOMATTOPOEIA (2004) |
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| 9min. Video Art, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Laian (Zimbabwe) |
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| Summary: | As the title suggests, sounds like what I mean....Through this video poem, Laiwan investigates phenomena of sound, music, bodily being, being-machines, improvisation and chance. (Vtape) |
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Avocado Vegetarian Turtle (1988) |
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| 3min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Gina & Kaspar Jivan Saxena (Germany) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A scientific report about a bizarre, new creature and its life cycle, told from a child's point of view. On one level it is amusing, on another, the new creature can be seen as a symbol of healing the fragmentation of living with and within different worlds. (CFMDC) |
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