Programs
New Asian Currents
We give you this year’s New Asian Currents program—eighteen gems in the rough that boldly carve out new ways of expression, inviting you to worlds captured and imagined by the filmmakers.
* Only films screened online are listed here. For a complete list of the program, please refer here.
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Home in the Mine
炭鉱たそがれ
Director: Chen Junhua
CHINA / 2021 / 109min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 08 [Fri] 14:00 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 20:00
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Ants Dynamics
蟻の蠢（うごめ）き
Directors: Xu Ruotao, Wang Chuyu
CHINA / 2019 / 120min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 08 [Fri] 17:00 with Q&A
Oct 11 [Mon] 21:30
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Dorm
駆け込み宿
Director: So Yo-hen
TAIWAN / 2021 / 54min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 08 [Fri] 20:00 with Q&A
Oct 11 [Mon] 18:00
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Entropy / エントロピー
Director: Chang Yu-sung / POLAND / 2021 / 10min
It's Just Another Dragon / それは竜のお話
Director: Taymour Boulos / LEBANON, HUNGARY / 2020 / 16min
Broken / 心の破片
Director: Nan Khin San Win / MYANMAR / 2021 / 13min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 08 [Fri] 22:00 with Q&A
Oct 11 [Mon] 19:30
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Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores
東北おんばのうたーつなみの浜辺で
Director: Suzuki Yoi
JAPAN / 2020 / 80min
with English subtitles
Oct 09 [Sat] 10:00 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 18:00
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Luo Luo's Fear
ルオルオの怖れ
Director: Luo Luo
CHINA / 2020 / 84min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 09 [Sat] 12:30 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 14:00
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Makeup Artist
メークアップ・アーティスト
Director: Jafar Najafi
IRAN / 2021 / 76min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 09 [Sat] 15:00 with Q&A
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This Stained Dawn
夜明けに向かって
Director: Anam Abbas
PAKISTAN, CANADA / 2021 / 89min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 09 [Sat] 17:30 with Q&A
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Writing With Fire
燃え上がる記者たち
Directors: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
INDIA / 2021 / 93min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 09 [Sat] 20:00 with Q&A
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The Still Side
沈黙の情景
Directors: Miko Revereza, Carolina Fusilier
MEXICO, THE PHILIPPINES, ARGENTINA, KOREA / 2021 / 70min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 10 [Sun] 10:00 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 22:30
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Afternoon Landscape
午後の景色
Director: Sohn Koo-yong
KOREA / 2020 / 73min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 10 [Sun] 12:30 with Q&A
Oct 11 [Mon] 14:00
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The Lucky Woman
異国での生活から
Director: Tseng Wen-chen
TAIWAN / 2020 / 87min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 10 [Sun] 15:00 with Q&A
Oct 11 [Mon] 16:00
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Beyond the Language
言語の向こうにあるもの
Director: Nishino Madoka
FRANCE, JAPAN / 2019 / 97min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 10 [Sun] 17:30 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 16:00
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Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege
リトル・パレスティナ
Director: Abdallah Al-Khatib
LEBANON, FRANCE, QATAR / 2021 / 89min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 10 [Sun] 20:00 with Q&A
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Three Songs for Benazir
ベナジルに捧げる3つの歌
Directors: Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei
AFGHANISTAN / 2021 / 22min
with Japanese & English subtitles
Oct 11 [Mon] 12:30 with Q&A
Oct 12 [Tue] 12:30