Asia

Political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation behind China’s iron and coal mining operations in Mongolia, which has ravaged the land and people.

An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, Kaili Blues heralds the arrival of Bi Gan, a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother’s wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. On the way, Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past, present, and future appear to slip away.

Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, the film explores memory and urbanization through two parallel stories, one about a young engineer and the other a boy. As the stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate and grow stranger.

In this mind-bending horror, a troubled young man whose father has mysteriously disappeared goes to a British mansion, where he gets stuck in a never-ending time loop and discovers astonishing facts about his past.

Can you feel the same love for two different people? After experiencing a passionate first love with a man who disappears, Asako meets an identical man years later with a polar-opposite personality. Will her past allow her to love him?

Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, and Michel Gondry present three short films that take us into an unseen Tokyo—where creatures lurk in sewers, shut-ins venture outside, and the streets can inspire metamorphosis.

Filmed entirely from inside a cable car, this unique documentary experience follows a range of passengers going to the ancient Hindu Manakamana Temple, 4,271 feet above Nepal. Join their peaceful yet exhilarating journey.

In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, THESE BIRDS WALK documents the struggles of these wayward street children and the samaritans looking out for them in this ethereal and inspirational story of resilience.

When his husband is sent on a mission to Djibouti, Roger remains behind with his adopted daughter at an army base in the middle of the woods. Over the course of four seasons he seeks advice and companionship from an eclectic group of fellow spouses.From Lav Diaz, an extraordinary five-and-a-half-hour epic that relates the strange, perhaps supernatural, occurrences that befall a remote village in the Philippine countryside. Winner of five prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, including Best Film.

Taking us into the heart of the planet’s busiest maternity hospital, MOTHERLAND drops the viewer like an unseen outsider into the hospital’s stream of activity. At first, the subjects are strangers. But soon thereafter, the mothers' stories become absorbingly intimate, rendering their struggles increasingly familiar.

Shot over 8 years on Thailand’s railway system, this documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country’s past and present while contemplating an ever-shifting society whose railway plays an economic and psychological role in its history.

A struggling father and his two children are barely surviving on the streets of Taipei until they meet a lonely grocery clerk. From acclaimed director Tsai Ming-liang, the visually powerful film is bracingly pure in both its anger and its compassion.