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Unknown Pleasures

From Asia’s most innovative and uncategorizable filmmakers come new stories and new ways of telling them.

Unknown Pleasures

A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

Film A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING Directed by Payal Kapadia India’s violent legacies of casteism and religious discrimination haunt the grainy black-and-white images in Payal Kapadia’s trance-like feature…
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A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES

Film A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES Directed by Shengze Zhu Shengze Zhu’s melancholic meditation on industrialization and homesickness, set at the banks of the Yangtze River in her…
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ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS

Film ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS Directed by Wang Qiong Filmmaker Qiong Wang excavates the dramatic impact of China’s one-child policy on her and her siblings’ upbringings. Approaching…
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DAYS BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM

Film DAYS BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM Directed by Chang Teng-yuan Like many Southeast Asian women in the 1990s, Van Tue moves to Taiwan and marries a Taiwanese man,…
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KIM MIN-YOUNG OF THE REPORT CARD

Film KIM MIN-YOUNG OF THE REPORT CARD Directed by Lee Jae-eun, Lim Jisun Back in high school, Jung-hee and Min-young imagined their future lives as young Korean women through their poetry…
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THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART

Film THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART Directed by Juan Martín Hsu Filmmaker Juan Martín Hsu travels from Argentina to Taiwan to visit his mother, intending to investigate the circumstances…
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WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE

Film WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE Directed by Carlo Francisco Manatad After Typhoon Haiyan hits, a son, his mother, and his friend navigate an uncanny city in ruins, targeting…
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WRITING WITH FIRE

Film WRITING WITH FIRE Directed by Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh India’s only all-female newspaper, Khabar Lahariya, is founded and run by Dalit (formerly “untouchable”) women. Rintu Thomas and…