Asian Film Database
Films by Title, Country of Origin, Year, and Genre
*Note that the Country of Origin of the Filmmaker is listed in order to distinguish between Asian Canadian filmmakers, and works of international origin that have been featured in Asian Canadian film festivals.
Action
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Drinking Games | Syria |
Hing Dai And the Man (see also Drama) | USA |
Little Phoenix and the Fists of Fury | Canada |
Little Phoenix and the Reign of Fists | Canada |
The Manila Marauder (see also Comedy) | Philippines |
The Masked Saint | Canada |
Shaolin Sisters | Canada |
Unrivaled | Canada |
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Animation
Avant-garde
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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A Performance by Jack Smith | Canada |
The Basement Girl | USA |
The Bird that Chirped on Bathurst | Canada |
Dead Zone | Canada |
Displaced View (see also Documentary, Fiction) | Canada |
I Have No Memory of My Direction (see also Fiction) | Canada |
Idiot's Delight | Canada |
Made in Japan | Canada |
The New Man | Japan |
Skin Deep | Canada |
Some Was Never Like This | Canada |
Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) | Canada |
Ville-quelle ville? | Canada |
Waving (see also Documentary) | Japan |
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Biography
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Automatic Writing | Japan |
Post Concussion (semi Auto-Biographical) | USA |
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Cinematic Poem
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Lahoot لاهوت | Iran |
Nasoot ناسوت | Iran |
Raga Malkauns | Iran |
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Comedy
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Aporia | Syria |
The Art of Woo (also see Romance) | South Korea |
BBQ Muslims | England |
Cart | USA |
Click | Canada |
Coopers' Camera (Christmas) | Canada |
Daypass | Canada |
Death Threat | England |
Fred's Burqa | England |
The Goddess Method | Canada |
The Goddess of 1967 (see also Drama, Romance) | Australia |
Green Tea Ice Cream (see also Drama) | Canada |
Ham & Cheese | Canada |
Hip Hop Mom | Hong Kong |
Hot Sauce | Syria |
I Saw You | Hong Kong |
Le Boucher (see also Drama) | Syria |
Logic Problems | Philippines |
Love $ Greed | Syria |
Made in Hong Kong (see also Drama, Crime) | Canada |
The Manila Marauder (see also Action) | Philippines |
The Perfumer | Syria |
Prix Fixe | Canada |
The Puck Hogs | Canada |
Rattan (see also Horror) | Canada |
Samurai Swing (see also Romance) | Canada |
Silent Men | Syria |
Slow Burn (see also Western) | Canada |
So Called Friends (see also Drama) | Taiwan |
Star Trek Disco Generation | Canada |
Star Trek Generation Spice | Canada |
Super Power Monster Tentacle Club | Philippines |
Swearnet | Canada |
Textuality | Canada |
To The Teeth | Canada |
Urge | Canada |
Wild Goose Daddy | Canada |
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Crime
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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The Hitchhiker Project | Vietnam |
Life Tastes Good (see also Drama) | USA |
Made in Hong Kong (see also Drama, Comedy) | China |
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Documentary
Drama
Dramedy
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Flipping | USA |
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Experimental
Fantasy
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Encounter a Stranger | Pakistan |
Merlin and the Book of Beasts | Canada |
Violent | Canada |
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Fiction
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Aadan | USA |
Abusive Father | Taiwan |
Blue Skies | Japan |
Bollywood/Hollywood | India |
Buckingham Palace | Japan |
Cairo Time | Canada |
Camilla | India |
Carriage | Hong Kong |
Displaced View (see also Documentary, Avant-garde) | Canada |
Double Happiness | Hong Kong |
Earth | India |
Fire | India |
The French Guy | Japan |
Heaven on Earth | India |
The High Cost of Living | Canada |
The Hill | Canada |
I Always Come to You | Canada |
I Have No Memory of My Direction (see also Avant-garde) | Canada |
Inescapable | Canada |
Kairos | Canada |
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity | Hong Kong |
Martha, Ruth and Edie | India |
Midnight's Children | India |
Red Tulips | Canada |
The Republic of Love | India |
Rub & Tug | South Korea |
Sabah | Canada |
Sam & Me | India |
Sky People | Canada |
Toronto Stories | Canada |
Tough Bananas | Canada |
Unsettled | Canada |
Water | India |
Yellow | USA |
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Film Installation
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Home Movies | USA |
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Found Footage
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Shiraz 1340… | Iran |
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Horror
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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5ive Girls | USA |
Boy George | Philippines |
Draghoula | Syria |
Murder on Rock Island | Syria |
Rattan (see also Comedy) | Canada |
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Inter-Arts
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Éclats nocturnes | Iran |
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Live Action
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Lip Service: A Mystery (see also Animation) | Japan |
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Live Performance
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Sounds like Kubota | USA |
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Making Of
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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The Making of Indie TV | Syria |
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Mixed Media Installation
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Mechanized Labour | Pakistan |
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Musical
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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LoLo's Child (see also Drama) | Canada |
The Stork (original title: Clair-obscur) | Syria |
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Music Video
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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One If By Sea, Two If By Sea | Canada |
Unique Mythology (Poem) | Pakistan |
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Narrative
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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The Air Cuts | USA |
All | Hong Kong |
Burning Down the Dream | Canada |
Coconut/Cane & Cutlass | Guyana |
Of Shifting Shadows | Iran |
Pamphlets | Canada |
Petals | Canada |
Phone Come to Jammu | Canada |
Rock Garden: A Love Story | South Korea |
The Shelter | France |
Subrosa | South Korea |
Thick Lips, Thin Lips | Canada |
Tuesday Be My Friend | Canada |
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Queer
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Lakme Takes Flight | Canada |
My Best Dress | Canada |
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Romance
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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The Art of Woo (also see Comedy) | South Korea |
Eastbound | Canada |
The Goddess of 1967 (see also Drama, Comedy) | Canada |
Lust in Translation | Canada |
Marnie Love | Canada |
The Offspring (see also Drama) | Canada |
Samurai Swing (see also Comedy) | Canada |
Sasha & Freddie | Canada |
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Short Film
Silent Film
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Seven Days of Menstruation | USA |
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Uncategorized
Video Art
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Automattopoeia | Zimbabwe |
Bending Over Backwards | Canada |
City Centre | Canada |
Confused: Sexual Views | Canada |
Enter the Dragon 1973-2008 | Canada |
Exit Upon Arrival | Canada |
The Fallen | Canada |
Family | Canada |
Grand Design | Canada |
Handstand | Canada |
Hanging | Canada |
Hell Money | Canada |
Invocation | Singapore |
Remotely In Touch | Zimbabwe |
Shadow Puppet | China |
Storm | Canada |
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Video Document
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts | Pakistan |
Leone Drive Project, The | Iran |
Queen of Canada | Pakistan |
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Western
Film Title | Origin of Filmmaker |
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Slow Burn (see also Comedy) | USA |
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