Asian Film Database

Cairo Time (2009)
88min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada, Ireland
Summary:	Juliette, a magazine editor in her late 40s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband for a three-week visit. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. (femfilm.ca)
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Call Me a Paki (2004)
6min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Avi Hudson (Afzal Huda) (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada supported project
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Awards:	Recipient, Albert Film and Television Award
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Summary:	Call Me a Paki gives a glimpse of the filmmaker's personal growth brought about by his first experience with racism upon returning to Canada after living in Pakistan for 17 years. The realization that he was not accepted in this society quickly led to the abandonment of the cultural and spiritual values and practices that were once and integral part of his life. It took the hauntingly insightful words of a virtual stranger on the streets of Northern Pakistan to make Huda realize all he had given up (Vtape).
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Camera Lucinda (2008)
Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Yi Cu (China)
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Camilla (1994)
95min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Deepa Mehta (India)
Production Company:	Shaftesbury Films, Ontario Film Development Corp., Telefilm Canada, Skreba Creon
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Setting:	United States
Summary:	Jessica Tandy made one of her final screen appearances in this comic road movie. Freda (Bridget Fonda) is a would-be singer and songwriter who would like a career as a performer but lacks the courage; it doesn't help that her husband Vincent (Elias Koteas), a graphic artist, keeps insisting that her interest in music is merely a hobby. Hoping to put some spark back into their marriage, Freda and Vincent take a vacation to Georgia, where they meet Camilla (Jessica Tandy), who lives in the main house near their cottage. (New York Times)
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Canoodle (1999)
3min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Lindeen Goh (Australia)
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Summary:	When a Chinese guy and an Anglo-Australian girl go on a blind date, fate and food intervene to bring them together over a plate of noodles. A cross-cultureal romantic comedy that really sucks. (Reel Asian)
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Car Crash (2010)
4min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Summary:	Using the video camera on his iphone Wong records the immediate aftermath of a car accident. CAR CRASH was presented in ZOOOOOM 5.2, part of Paul Wong's '5', a series of site-specific events and installations commissioned by the City of Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Programs. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Carriage (1998)
22min. Fiction, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Annie Lau (Hong Kong)
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Setting:	China
Summary:	A young, pregnant Chinese immigrant girl trudges through her days trying to make ends meet. In a lonely country where she has no friends or family and an absentee husband, her will to live is put to the test as she is lured by the warmth of death. (Reel Asian)
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Cart (2011)
8min. Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Brian Yung (United States)
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Summary:	Abandoned on a street corner, a grocery store shopping cart seeks justice against the irresponsible customer who left it there. (IMDb)
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Casual Tea (1999)
5min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Patrick Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	Watch the flashing light… (Vtape)
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Catalogue (2008)
4min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Blair Fukumura (Canada)
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Summary:	In a playful collage of mid-1970s fashion and catalogue items, Catalogue makes a comparison between shopping through retro magazines and searching through contemporary personal advertisements online. With the convenience of websites such as Facebook, Fukumura questions if it is any easier to find what we want today.
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Cats (2014)
1min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	Sound
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba (Canada)
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Summary:	A whimsical little cat animation created by drawing directly on an iPad using the McLaren's Workshop iPad app. (www.meditatingbunny.com)
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Cazalla de la Sierra (1985)
26min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Bashar Shbib (Syria)
Production Company:	Oneira Pictures
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Setting:	Spain
Summary:	Maria del Carmen Ladron de Gueverra is a Spanish entrepreneur – everyone knows her simply as Maria Carmen. She has purchased a monastery of the Order of Saint Bruno, which she renovates in the hills north of Seville. This documentary delves into the heart of the daily lives of the inhabitants of Cazalla de la Sierra and then takes us to visit the monastery five kilometres from the village. (www.oneira.com)
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Cemetary (1999)
8min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Wu Chun-hai (Taiwan)
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Summary:	This film integrates two different directions of shot (left to right and right to left) in terms of frame by frame (1 to 1.2 to 2…28 to 28, and full shot to full shot). The film uses the direction of the camera movement to emulate and enfgance human visual perception. (Reel Asian)
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Chairman George (2005)
73min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English, Mandarin
Director/Filmmaker:	Mila Aung-Thwin with Daniel Cross (Canada)
Production Company:	Eye Steel Films
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Setting:	China, Canada
Summary:	In Canada, George is a statistician. But in China, George is Elvis... Chairman George is a documentary feature about a Greek-Canadian troubadour who refuses to live anything but an extraordinary life. ln Ottawa, George is a statistician who lives with his mother. But every few months, he takes an extended leave from his job and heads to China where he metamorphoses into an international man of culture. Armed only with his bouzouki, guitar and cell phone, he becomes a star in China (with both the critics and the ladies). (Halima Ouardiri)
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Chasing Chinese (2003)
11min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Mary Chew (Canada)
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Summary:	To Chinese kids growing up in North America, It's a familiar pattern: spend the better part of your childhood denying your ethnicityl then spend your post adolescence coming to terms with and even embracing it. A documentary examination of what it means to be both Chinese and Canadian.
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Chasmic Dance (2004)
6min. Drama, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Daichi Saito (Japan)
Production Company:	Double Negative Collective
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Summary:	A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest themselves as a series of rapid abstract movements. Alluding to the cosmic dance of Shiva, the film is an expression of primal rhythmic energy, moving dialectically but without sublimation. Regeneration ignites destruction, and transformation invites mutation, through clashes of opposing modes such as video/film, surface/depth and light/darkness. (lightcone.org)
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Chelsea Hotel Room 207 (2008)
8min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	Crack-induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities (one black/one white). Described by viewers as both horrific and so full of humanity. This work is not what-it-seems, or is it? (www.5.paulwongprojects.com)
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Chiasmus (2003)
8min. Experimental, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Daichi Saito (Japan)
Production Company:	Double Negative Collective
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Setting:	Chiasmus
Summary:	An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and the fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside and outside inside. (lightcone.org)
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Child and the Firefly (2009)
3min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Atif Y. Siddiqi (Pakistan)
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Summary:	This short animation is based on the Urdu poem Jugnu for children written by Indian author Ismail Meeruti and first published in the nineteenth century. It illustrates an encounter between a curious boy and a firefly. Its message serves to remind us to be more considerate and not destructive of other species, each other and nature. (www.atifsiddiqi.com)
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Child-Play (1997)
14min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Michelle Mohabeer (Guyana)
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Summary:	Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, Child-Play is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the "innocence" of childhood and the elder phases of existence. (CFMDC)
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Children of War (1986)
25min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Premika Ratnam (India)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Summary:	A remarkable documentary in which teenagers from war-torn countries, filmed in interaction with Canadian high-school students, speak with dignity, maturity and candour about the struggles of their people and the suffering that they have endured. From El Salvador, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, East Timor and the African countries of Namibia and Zimbabwe, the teens participated in the 1985-1986 International Youth for Peace and Justice Tour. Several of the teenagers are political refugees. This is an inspiring, thought-provoking discussion-starter on issues of peace, war, international relations, and the daily realities of many other cultures. (National Film Board)
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Chinese Chocolate (1996)
95min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English, Mandarin
Director/Filmmaker:	Yan Cui (China)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. (IMDb)
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Chinese Food and Donuts (1999)
24min. Short, Colour
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Summary:	One night in her Chinese Food and Donut shop, a woman opens her fortune cookie only to find the winning combination for true love. As a police officer purchases a donut, she checks out his vital stats and disovers he may be the winning prize. (Reel Asian)
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The Chinese Violin (2002)
8min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Joe Chang (China)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Summary:	A young girl and her father move from China to Canada, bringing only their Chinese violin. As they face the challenge of starting fresh in a new place, the music of the violin connects them to the life they left behind and guides the girl towards a musical future. (YouTube)
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A Chink in the Armour (2004)
25min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Baun Mah (Canada)
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Summary:	Are all Asian people good at math and kung fu? Gathering a large group of volunteers, Baun Mah tests six of the major Asian stereotypes. The results are comical while remaining insightful.
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Chips (1998)
14min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Augustine Ma (USA)
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Summary:	A hardworking Korean shop owner tries to extol the virtues of the quiet Korean stock boy to his wild daughter. Unbeknownst to the shop owner, his stock boy has a strange food fetish and may not be as trustworthy as he appears. (Reel Asian)
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Chocolate is an Indian Word (1996)
22min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Gita Saxena and Shauna Beharry (Germany)
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Summary:	A series of six short whimsical tales about what its like to be small, brown with a big imagination, growing up on the Canadian prairies. (www.interlog.com/~firebox/Ignite/Movie/gitacv.html)
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Chopstick Bloody Chopstick (2001)
14min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung and Shawn Durr (Canada)
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Summary:	A string of dead boyfriends and a pair of blood-stained chopsticks. Is the culprit our neurotic narrator or his mysterious new Asian boyfriend? (wayneyung.com)
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Chosun Forever (2009)
30min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Joo Hyun Kwon (Canada)
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Summary:	This tale of an ex-guerrilla fighter in the DPRK, now living in Toronto, reveals a fascinating, different perspective and the complex motivations behind the North Korean belief system of resolute self-reliance.
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Circles (1997)
58min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Shanti Thakur (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Awards:	Silver Apple Award, National Educational Media Network, Oakland; Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival; Award of Merit, University Film and Video Association
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A film about justice and community healing, Circles is an inside look at sentencing circles- an alternative approach to sentencing offenders in the Yukon. By bringing together the perpetrator of crime, his or her victims, peers and elders, sentencing circles focus on finding ways to heal the offender, the victim and the community, instead of simply punishment. For many Aboriginal men in the North, going to jail was a natural extension of attending residential schools run by missionaries. For some, circle sentencing is a way to re-connect with their spiritual traditions and to break away from the cycle of crime, court, prison. (www.shantithakur.com)
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Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts (2012)
6min. Video Document, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Bamboat, Sharlene, Alexis Mitchell, Bambitchell (Pakistan)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Jason Kenney, minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, hero of Canada's most vulnerable: migrants, women, and LGBTQ peoples. Bambitchell responds with a love letter to Mr. Kenney. (Vtape)
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City Centre (2006)
4min. Video Art, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Heather Keung
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	City Centre examines how the suburban landscape functions and facilitates the lifestyles of the people who live there. Comprised of thousands of digital photographs, the video illustrates human traffic patterns and highlights the activities that happen at the centre of the city of Mississauga. (Vtape)
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Click (2013)
18min. Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Christine Chew(Canada)
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Awards:	Best Women's Long-Form Narrative Short, North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival , 2013
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	When intrepid heroine Darcy has her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally together to help her recover. (CFMDC)
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Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994)
30min. Narrative, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Michelle Mohabeer (Guyana)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The title of Coconut/Cane & Cutlass represents the psyche behind the collective memory, history and imagination of Indo-Caribbean people. The film is a mythic/poetic rumination on exile, displacement, and nationhood from the perspective of an Indo-Caribbean lesbian who migrated to Canada 20 years ago. (CFMDC)
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Come & Go (1998)
13min. Drama, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Mishann Lau (Canada)
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Summary:	Have you ever been turned on, put off, felt up, let down, swept away and left alone all in one night? Then you haven't met Randy. Come & Go is a short, sexy foray into the evening of a single woman at a bar. (Vtape)
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The Comfort Window (2010)
6min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung (Germany)
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Summary:	An intimate portrait of a young man speaking candidly about his desire for Asian men. (wayneyung.com)
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Coming+Going (2005)
3min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Larissa Fan (Canada)
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Summary:	Shot on one roll of regular film, these interrelated snapshots of bustling urban life are filmed with all editing and split-screen created in-camera.
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Complex Situation (1998)
5min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Fae Yamaguchi (USA)
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Summary:	A comical live action animation featuring Frank the Horse and Bob the Bird. Bob must decide how far he should go for his lifelong pal when Frank gets into trouble with the law during a bout of unemployment. (Reel Asian)
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The Compact (1991)
20min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Brenda Joy Lem (Canada)
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Summary:	The Compact shows history working at the base of human relationships. Lee, a young Chinese Canadian woman examines her experiences with her family, her Anglo-Canadian boyfriend and the society she lives in. The private world of lee's imagination is a collage, juxtaposing the political/social/sexual relationships between east/west, woman/man, parent/child, creating new meanings from the diverse and often conflicting elements which shape her identity.(Hong Kong International Film Festival)
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Comrade Dad (2005)
26min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Karin Lee (Canada)
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Summary:	Writer/director Karin Lee reflects on her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore that he ran on Vancouver's Skid Row from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. This experimental biography explores both the person and the effect that his ideological beliefs had on his family, set within the political landscapes of Canada and China at the time of the Cultural Revolution. It is also a little-known story about how a segment of Vancouver's Chinese community embraced Chinese socialism and how their idealism was affected by a changing political climate in China. Comrade Dad twists memories of a socialist-raised child into the reflection of an adult who is conflicted over the schism between idealism and pragmatism, socialism and capitalism, and personal desires and political activism.
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Conceived (2013)
5min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Eui Yong Zong (Canada)
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Summary:	Eui Yong confronts his family about the events around his conception, and his mother's planned abortion.
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Confessions of an Asian Tourist (2009)
4min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung (Canada)
Production Company:	Commissioned by No More Potlucks (Issue no.5)
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Setting:	Germany
Summary:	A meditation on (self-)perceptions of Asianness (wayneyung.com).
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Confessions of a Salesman (2007)
55min. Uncategorized
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ho Tam(Canada)
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Summary:	In a world obsessed with the consumption of provocative pictures of desire, where almost everyone must be a salesman, Ho Tam's Confessions Of A Salesman weaves between salesman, artist, and consumer. While re-mixing images of Asian businessmen in glasses, school boys in Catholic school uniforms, and young basketball players who could be movie stars, Tam humorously asks: When, where, and how will we see the next 'Jacky Chen', 'Bruce Li' or 'Yao Meng'?
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Confused: Sexual Views (1984)
52min. Video Art, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	The story is based upon the innuendoes and interrelationships of four main characters – Gary, Gina, Jeanette and Paul. Distinct video forms are used to build the narrative and to handle the complex range of information and technical styles. The video's intent is to develop a broader understanding and tolerance by its viewers towards a new sexual attitude. Co-directed by Gary Bourgeois, Gina Daniels and Jeanette Reinhardt. (www.5.paulwongprojects.com)
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Contemplation (1979)
min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Onodera's high school homage to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," the 1919 German classic, directed by Robert Wiene. (midionodera.com)
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The Contest (2007)
13min. Uncategorized
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Summary:	Trapped in a stilted marriage, a young Japanese woman finds an avenue for escape through her dreams to meet legendary montreal Canadiens star, guy lafleur. Set in 1978 and inspired by her mother's past, Kumagai tells the sweet story of a young immigrant who finds her place through the great Canadian game of hockey.
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Continuity Problems (2009)
7min. Uncategorized
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Summary:	A young man's fear of commitment leads him through a series of mixed-up situations. As inconsistencies grow in the film and in his own life, he realizes that the only solution to his problem might just be what he was most afraid of.
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Continuous Journey (2004)
87min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	Punjabi, Urdu
Director/Filmmaker:	Ali Kazimi (India)
Production Company:	TVOntario
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Summary:	Continuous Journey is an inquiry into the largely ignored history of Canada's exclusion of the South Asians by a little known immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908. (Ali Kazimi)
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Coopers' Camera (Christmas) (2008)
95min. Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Warren P. Sonoda
Production Company:	Boutique Films/Anchor Bay
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Coopers' Christmas is a hilarious comedy set in 1980s suburbia when a dysfunctional family's Christmas disintegrates into a holiday hell once an estranged uncle shows up for some yuletide misery. Told through the eyes of the youngest Cooper son Teddy, as he uses the family's brand new Christmas present: a second hand VHS camcorder to capture all the memories and madness. (IMDb)
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Count Us In: A Documentary on Inclusion
min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Azam Fouk Aladeh (Syria)
Production Company:	Multicultural Cinema Club, Kitchener-Waterloo
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The documentary explores the lives of disabled adults in the Working Adults Learning Empowering Skills program, which provides a day programme for adults who are developmentally challenged. The program is part of Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region, a non-profit organization which supports about 1,400 disabled individuals and their families.
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Cowgirl (1996)
17min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Sunny Lee (USA)
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Summary:	Short about an eastern girl with a western heart. Its coming of age message: mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be cowgirls. (Reel Asian)
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Crack (2000)
min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Summary:	The videos depict wild-west acts such as trick roping, bullwhipping, knife throwing and trick-riding. This video is a part of the Language of the Rope series (1998-2005), which stemmed from Noguchi's lessons in trick-roping that she received from a wild-west rodeo performer. (louisenoguchi.com)
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Crack Me Up (1991)
76min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Bashar Shbib (Syria)
Production Company:	Oneira Pictures International
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Setting:	United States
Summary:	The film weaves the tale of Louie B. (Tim Brazzil), a hapless cowboy who thinks the world would be a better place if strangers would kiss each other more often. After a run-in with a band of crooks headed by Stacey, (Mary Crosby), Louie goes blind. He is taken in by Billie Jean – a tough-love prostitute (Daphna Kastner), and her colleagues – who are as gay as they are straight. (IMDb)
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Crack of the Halo (1997)
17min. Short, Colour
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Summary:	An angel imprisoned by the walls of poverty stretches her hands towards the sunlight to become a butterfly. But the weight of the cruel world brings her crashing down, cracking her halo. This mesmerizing film borders on madness as our angel actions her escape. (Reel Asian)
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Crash Skid Love (1998)
4min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysian Borneo)
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Summary:	A claymation skater-boy love story that swings. (Vtape)
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Crickets (1998)
12min. Short, Colour
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Summary:	Sue, a 10-year-old Korean-Canadian, playfully pushes the limits until she finds herself in unexpected territory. (Asian American Film Database)
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Crossing Borders (1992)
25min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English, French
Director/Filmmaker:	Shanti Thakur (Canada)
Production Company:	Telefilm Canada
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	One Saturday evening in a peaceful Montreal suburb, a murder took place outside the Black Community Council of Quebec (BCCQ). A dance was taking place at the center when four Haitian men arrived, shot and killed one woman and injured two men. The press and broadcast news emphasized that it was a white woman shot by black men, and that black crime was involved... as soon as violence occurs within the black community, it becomes a "racial incident". The BCCQ received bomb threats and racist hate phone calls. Neighbors tried to shut it down. BCCQ workers were scared to go to work. Made in response to the media coverage, Crossing Borders evolved as a tool to create dialogue between the white neighbours and the BCCQ workers. Thakur made videos of both communities—the neighbours and the community workers. Then, Thakur showed each group the other's video and taped responses. Over six months, the process continued, until finally, both groups took steps to meet socially. The film reveals the process where both communities could begin to erase the borders that separate them from each other. (shantithakur.com)
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Cultural Anthropology, National Idenity through Ukrainian Dance (2008)
4min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Cuong Ngo, (Vietnam)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Part One, Episode One of the Politics of Body in Performing Arts
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Curse of the Jade Falcon (2008)
8min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Tracy D. Smith (Canada)
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Summary:	A mysterious woman implores a detective to find her sister, who has run away to meet a dangerous man. this black-and-white spoof plays on Asian female stereotypes onscreen while reinventing the opening scene of the classic The Maltese Falcon.
Source:	Reel Asian