Asian Film Database

Baby (1999)
34min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Yim Phil-sung (Korea)
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Summary:	A high school student discovers more than sex during an affair with his college age tutor in this beautifully rendered table about the inevitability of lost innocence. (Reel Asian)
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Babylon Bridge is Falling Down
6min Short, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Chris Fung
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A Bad Hair Day (2004)
8min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Meesoo Lee (Canada)
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Summary:	A particularly inspiring type of amateur filmmaking, Meesoo Lee's work captures an argument between himself and his parents at a barbershop all through a tiny handheld camera. But don't let the jerky motions and indistinct sound in this purposefully amateurish production deter you. This is a wonderful satire that uproariously captures parents-son relationship with uncanny perceptivity. After all, who hasn't experienced similar ordeals with his or her own mother and father? It goes to show how good filmmaking only needs a minimum of tools but a lot of good, intuitive judgement.
Source:	Reel Asian

Badge of Pride (2009)
60min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	min Sook Lee (South Korea)
Production Company:	Hungry Eyes Film & Television
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Badge of Pride is a documentary that looks at the lives of gay cops; cops who are out, cops who are closeted and cops who are somewhere in between the closet and the cruiser. (Hungry Eyes Film & Television Inc.)
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Banana Boy (2002)
7min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Samuel Chow (Canada)
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Summary:	A beautifully rendered first person examination of the sense of home and belonging of a banana boy - someone who embraces Western ideas and culture underneath his Asian complexion. Samuel Chow reflects on the life changing experiences of coming to Canada, coming out, and his quest for freedom.
Source:	Reel Asian

Banana Bruises (2005)
13min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Joyce Wong(Canada)
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Summary:	Chloe, a shy and quiet Chinese-Canadian girl, has had her eye on a geeky Caucasian classmate since they were kids. Unfortunately, public school bullies, SAT exams and her crazy Chinese parents all got in the way of romance. Now that they are adults, Chloe finally has the chance pursue an "intimate encounter". But in this satirical love story, things are not that simple and love is not as blind as we wish it to be.
Source:	Reel Asian

The Banquet of the Concubine (2012)
12min. Uncategorized
Language(s):	Chinese (English subtitles)
Director/Filmmaker:	Hefang Wei (Canada)
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Summary:	In the year 746 AD, a banquet is given in honour of the Emperor's favourite concubine. But can the taste of the sweet delicacies pacify her bitter jealousy?
Source:	Reel Asian

The Basement Girl (2000)
12min. Avant-garde, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Awards:	Best Lesbian Short Film, Girlfriends magazine's Sapphos Movie Awards, 2001
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Summary:	Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, The Basement Girl emerges – transformed and ready to "make it on her own." The Basement Girl breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16 mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope. (femfilm.ca)
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BBQ Muslims (1995)
5min. Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Zarqa Nawaz (England)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Two Canadian Muslim brothers are sleeping in their home when the barbecue in the backyard explodes. They are immediately suspected of being dangerous Middle Eastern terrorists. Their neighbourhood turns against them, as does the news media and the legal system. Meanwhile, the environmental terrorists/activists who perpetrated the crime are frustrated as their attempt at sensationalizing their cause goes unrecognized by the news media. This film was inspired by events following the Oklahoma City bombing (www.zarqanawaz.com).
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Beat Truths: A Portrait of Graeme Kirkland (1997)
3min. Documentary, Colour, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Carolyn Wong
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Summary:	Based on autobiographical writings, Beat Truths: A Portrait of Graeme Kirkland is a three-minute film that aims to capture the dynamics of the artist's street performance. It is a marriage of spoken word, street samples and drumming to cinema verite-style filming, creating a collage of sound and vision which builds to a cacophony that captures the essence and honesty of the artist and his art. Never subtle nor sugar-coated, and always in your face. (CFMDC)
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Beauty Queen (2009)
7min. Animation
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Director/Filmmaker:	Lena Hayoung Chun (Canada)
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Summary:	A composited animation about a young woman conflicted by the commodification of beauty.
Source:	Reel Asian

Beef (2007)
12min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Thomas Lieu Nori (Canada)
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Summary:	Fierce, like a roundhouse kick? To impress his new lady friend, Carl asks Wang for help on getting a unique "ethnic" tattoo. Retaliating against Carl's racist implications, Wang decides he'll teach Carl a little cultural lesson about orientalism.
Source:	Reel Asian

Begin to Begin (2004)
20min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Heijoo Yoon (Canada)
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Summary:	Some people say that guys and girls can never really be friends. But according to the women in Jake's life, he's their closest confidant... right up until the point where they find out that he likes them as more than just friends. Then he's done… like dinner. Enough is enough. Determined to end the vicious cycle, Jake decides not to make any more female friends – that is, until Nicole comes into his life and throws him for another loop…
Source:	Reel Asian

Bending Over Backwards (2008)
2min. Video Art, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Heather Leung
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Setting:	Hong Kong
Summary:	Bending Over Backwards is part of a series of performance art videos whereby the artist submits herself to several physical endurance challenges. It is part of an endurance series that began in 2006, and was made at the Artist Cultural Outreach Residency in Hong Kong 2008. (Vtape)
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Betsy (1984)
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Director/Filmmaker:	Bashar Shbib (Syria)
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Between: Living in the Hyphen (2005)
43min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Anne Marie Nakagawa (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Awards:	Golden Sheaf Award, Short Film and Video Festival, Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association, 2006
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on seven Canadians who have one parent from a European background and one of a visible minority, she attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multi-ethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category. (http://annemarienakagawa.com)
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Beyond These Walls (2001)
8min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Gordon Wong (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	This beautifully lyrical and pensive film documents a day in the life of a survivor of male sexual assault as he forges through the walls of his apartment and his mind. A moving tale of a survivor as he muses on the psychological damage it leaves behind. (Vtape)
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Beyond/Body/Memory (1993)
5min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Neesha Dosanjh Meminger (India)
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Summary:	A series of rhythmically repeated images of self-caress and cleansing are used to express an Asian woman's sense of emerging self, her growing strength and her desire for the erotic touch of another. (Vtape)
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The Big Wait (2010)
53min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Joanne Jackson; Jari Osborne (Canada)
Production Company:	Brilliant Red Media
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Awards:	Gold Award, Medical/Health/Fitness/Wellness, Worldfest Houston, The Houston International Film Festival, 2011
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Patients are waiting. Doctors are waiting. Communities are waiting. While millions of Canadians wait to get a family doctor, thousands of foreign-trained physicians wait to fulfill their dream of becoming licensed doctors in Canada. The Northern Ontario community of Midland-Penetanguishene forms the backdrop for this candid look at the effects of bureaucracy on the health of the nation. The Big Wait focuses on three foreign-trained doctors who are waiting to get accredited and on the rural communities who are waiting for them. It's the true story of patients and doctors on a human journey in the changing medical landscape. (http://thebigwait.com )
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Bindi (2005)
2min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Chinapa, Akshaya and Kesavamoorthy, Aravinth (Canada)
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Summary:	Bindi is a non-dialogue, narrative short film that explores a mother's choice to take her own life, while leaving her young daughter to deal with the aftermath alone. (CFMDC)
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Binding Borders (2007)
8min. Uncategorized
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Summary:	Everyday we cross paths with people from all different cultures and backgrounds. Interweaving four humbling stories about people's lives before immigrating to Canada, Hsiung looks for what unifies immigrants whether they are from vietnam, mexico, Philippines or Rwanda. Binding Borders recently won the Best Toronto Focus Film Award at the Cabbagetown Film Festival and is in the CBC Radio International Digital Diversity Competition.
Source:	Reel Asian

The Bird that Chirped on Bathurst (1981)
4min. Avant-garde, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Summary:	The intermittently heard voice-over talks about a woman's self-awareness – being unable to know if she has really changed or not. The images are esoteric and hard to interpret: young women in black in various urban settings, something moving rhythmically. (femfilm.ca)
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Birds (2004)
5min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Luo Li (Canada)
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Summary:	Through ink paintbrush and scratches on the film footage, the filmmaker literally draws a connection between Chinese calligraphy and birds, and between his Chinese heritage and his now North American identity.
Source:	Reel Asian

Birthday Games (2007)
53min. Uncategorized Colour
Language(s):	German , Czech
Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung (Canada)
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Setting:	Germany
Summary:	A birthday party gradually descends into a web of insinuations, lies and naked conflict. (wayneyung.com)
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Black September (2000)
6min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	After learning of her father's death, an Arab woman takes her anger out on her young daughter. (IMDb)
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Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World (1996)
28min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational documentary about the diverse views of sex from 22 people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, health workers, educators, artists, community activists and people living with AIDS are mixed. (www.5.paulwongprojects.com)
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BLOCK B (2008)
82min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	Tamil
Director/Filmmaker:	Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysian Borneo)
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Awards:	Best Canadian Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival (2008); Best Short Film, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata (2008); one of the Top Ten Canadian Short Film of 2008 by the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Setting:	Malaysia, Canada
Summary:	A building becomes a living painting. The concrete homes and contradicting soundscapes frame the lives of an expatriate community. (www.chongchanfui.com)
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Bloodclot (2013)
8min. Uncategorized
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Summary:	Three generations of Chinese Canadian women experience triumphs—only to find challenges waiting at home.
Source:	Reel Asian

Blossom (2010)
6min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Julia Kwan (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Summary:	This short film captures the experience of a young woman as she travels to a new country. As summer opens into spring, mother and daughter build a life together. The taste and texture of each season, whether the ice-cream smell of summer, the crisp birch air of autumn, or the warmth of winter dumplings, are lovingly rendered in animation, sound and image. Throughout the passage of time, the persistence of love endures, as resolute and unchanging as the cycle of the season. (National Film Board)
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BLU IN YOU (2008)
49min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Michelle Mohabeer (Guyana)
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Summary:	BLU IN YOU is a poetic-essayist rumination mediated through the lens of a female observer, who watches the staged conversations between a writer (Nalo Hopkinson) and a visual arts curator (Andrea Fatona). (SAWNET)
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Blue Skies (2002)
7min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Summary:	In a world hungry for martyrs or heroes, of global corporate culture, pointless elections and ceaseless political strife, there is still a way to use history as a healing force. There is still a personal ability and responsibility to continue to make art; art that moves us beyond helplessness; art that can celebrate the very act of living. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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Blue Turning Grey Over You (2000)
7min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Three stories, each depicting the parting moments between lovers each of whom, for different reasons, are destined not to be lovers much longer. (http://www.nmsl.uregina.ca)
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Bodies of Water (1998)
2min. Experimental, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Shanti Thakur (Canada)
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Summary:	Bodies of Water is a poetic memory of the filmmaker's return to the Ganges River in India where her grandparents were cremated. It was only with her generation that daughters were included on the family tree. Was she now relevant? Impressionistic, meditative images of water are superimposed with slide guitar and tablas.(CFMDC)
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Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)
105min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English, Hindi
Director/Filmmaker:	Deepa Mehta (India)
Production Company:	Bollywood/Hollywood Productions Inc., Mongrel Media, Different Tree Same Wood
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Rahul Seth, a young, dashing Toronto dot.com millionaire, believes he is 'Western' enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother, especially when it comes to marriage. When his white girlfriend dies in an accident, his family pressures him to marry a good Indian girl -- before his younger sister's wedding. After wrestling with his struggle for independence and his duty to the family, Rahul attends his sister's wedding, accompanied by Sue, an expensive, intelligent and fiercely independent escort who poses as his 'Indian' fiancée. Sue, however, is not what she appears to be... (Telefilm Canada)
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Bolo! Bolo! (1991)
30min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Gita Saxena // Kaspar Jivan Saxena and Ian Rashid (Germany)
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Summary:	The response of diasporic South Asian communities to the AIDS crisis is documented through interviews, information and a weaving of images. At the core of the videotape are the testimonials of artists and activists... gay, lesbian and straight; to the barriers and successes of organizing around AIDS. Photographer Sunil Gupta and professor and activist Himani Bannerji are amongst the interviewed subjects. (Vtape)
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Bones (2005)
48min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English, Mandarin
Director/Filmmaker:	Mila Aung-Thwin (Canada)
Production Company:	Eye Steel Films
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Setting:	China, Canada
Summary:	The Beijing Modern Dance Company (BMDC) is China's avant-guard dance troupe, led by Willy Tsao - the father of modern dance in China. He has been struggling for years to advance modern dance in China, where it is inherently political: it unleashes the Artist as an individual, feed from collective ideology and tradition. As a result, he invites Montreal choreographer Nadin Thouin to experience the struggle and reward of artistic cross pollination by working with BMDC and 12 of the top dancers in China. This film follows Nadine and partner Jerry Snell as Nadine jumps into the biggest show of her independent career: six weeks to create BONE, under-funded and unable to speak Chinese. The vérité/performance film follows the creation process in Beijing, then an intense tour through China and Canada. (Mila Aung-Thwin)
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The Books of James (2002)
16min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ho Tam (Canada)
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Summary:	Through a stack of personal journals, this video reconstructs a biography of the South Dakota-born, New York City-enlightened artist James Wentzy. Tracing his days starting out as a struggling artist and later involved as an AIDS activist, the video provides an intimate portrait of a neglected hero. Wentzy reads from journals and shares old family snapshots and notebook sketches. "I hope I don't die of sainthood," Wentzy jokes in an entry from 1990—the pivotal time when he was becoming involved with ACT-UP and beginning to live healthier after the revelation of his HIV-positive status.
Source:	Reel Asian

Boulevard of Broken Sync (1995)
3min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Winston Xin (Malaysia)
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Summary:	A techno poem that mixes fifties porn, lounge music, deadpan wit, and a lover's sweet revenge. An emotional breakdown takes form as broken video sync. (Reel Asian)
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Boxed (2001)
2min. Short, Black and White
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Director/Filmmaker:	Vanessa Lam (Canada)
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Summary:	An elegant performance video that uses rear screen projection to evoke a girl's attempts to connect with the world.
Source:	Reel Asian

Boy George (2009)
5min. Horror, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Vincent Ternida (Philippines)
Production Company:	Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	During age of the Zombie apocalypse, two Zombie parents pay a visit to the local morgue to identify their dead son. Having run away from home, they find out some unfortunate details about their son and are about to face their own mortality. Filmed in 48 hours for the Vancouver leg of Bloodshots 2009. (Robert Anson Peña)
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Breakbabies (2000)
5min. Short, Colour
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Summary:	Two twenty something Asian lesbians contemplate playful fantasies of child birth with unexpected and fuzzy results.
Source:	Reel Asian

Bridge Passage (2001)
6min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Summary:	When love gets difficult, a bridge to her would be priceless. No need for any dialogue, Chung has painted the screen with visual poetry of conflicts, conduion longing and reconciliation.
Source:	Reel Asian

Broken Angel (Gebrochengel) (2013)
5min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Stephen Chen (Singapore)
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Setting:	Canada, Germany
Summary:	In Frankfurt near St. Peter's church on Klaus-Mann-Platz, there is a memorial with an angel sculpture (aka Frankfurter Engel) for the homosexual men and women persecuted and murdered during the Third Reich. 2013 was a tumultuous year for LGBT rights like the spike in hate crimes in the U.S. post-DOMA, and passing of anti-gay legislation worldwide (most notably Russia and India). On 6 May 2013, the anniversary of Marlene Dietrich's death and 80th year past the Third Reich, Stephen explores the historical and ongoing queer struggle and gilded apology of monuments in a guerilla performance by colliding the Frankfurter Engel with Marlene Dietrich (who rose to fame in the film Blue Angel, a gay and lesbian icon, and staunch detractor of the Nazi regime). He interacts with the space and sculpture while singing her signature song "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß" / "Falling in love again (I can't help it)" a capella, accompanied by the surrounding soundscape of passer-bys, traffic, drunks, street sweepers; his rendition and movements around the memorial lending new import and subtext to the song. Over a period of 3 hours, Stephen performs 12 times at random intervals, one for each year of the Third Reich. Each time he performs, he starts in the next clockwise position. (CFMDC)
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Broken Roots (2004)
47min. Uncategorized
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Summary:	David Ricketts is not like most other teens. For one, he was diagnosed with Tourettes. Then came his other symptoms: bipolar, obsessive compulsive and attention deficit disorders.What turned a once happy and content child into a depressed, angry and self-destructive young man? His parents begin to wonder if it is because David was adopted. Born Jong Hoon in South Korea, David feels alienated from his Caucasian parents, even though his other siblings are also Korean and adopted. The documentary Broken Roots charts the Ricketts' attempt to reunite David with his birth parents in Korea. It encapsulates the modern problems of adoption along with a moving tale that shows David's difficult transition to an adult. Susan Chang's directorial debut is full of revelations, yet doesn't try to simplify or solve the issues at hand.
Source:	Reel Asian

Bubblehead (1999)
16min. Short, Colour
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Summary:	"Just once, six-year-old Cyrus Wang wants be on time. Each morning, he wakes up in dread of another torturous day at kindergarten. Why? His parents keep forgetting to pick him up from school. Beautiful waves of bubbles arrive to save him, but when the magic pops, Cyrus learns the key to survival is finding the right delusion." (Christopher Chen)
Source:	Reel Asian

Buckingham Palace (1993)
7min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Summary:	What looks like a bad date turns out to be an allegory for why 1993 was not the year to be quoting T.S. Eliot. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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Bullfight (2008)
4min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Michael Connor & Heather Keung
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Setting:	South Korea
Summary:	Head to head, the struggle between two bulls is both powerful and tender. (Vtape)
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Burning Bridges (1985)
11min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Premika Ratnam (India)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Raising issues that are applicable to many immigrant cultures, this film traces the story of two Indian women who emigrated to Canada, unaware of what was entailed. Each has had to deal with a marriage which has failed due to unforeseen social and economic pressures, and each now finds herself having to cope with the problems of leading an independent life. (http://explore.bfi.org.uk)
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Burning Down the Dream (1999)
6min. Narrative, Black and White
Language(s):	Sound
Director/Filmmaker:	Nila Gupta
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Summary:	A funky examination of cultural appropriation, sweatshop labour and what you can do about it. (CFMDC)
Source:	Reel Asian

By This Parting (1998)
14min. Short, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Mieko Ouchi (Canada)
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Summary:	An evocative, meditative and abstract look at the life of Mrs. Chiba, the great aunt of Mieko Ouchi, and her time spent a TB sanatarium in New Denver, BC. The film brings together still ohotos, poetry by the late Chie Kamegaya and poerformances from Kita No Taiko. (Reel Asian)
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