Asian Film Database

I Always Come to You (2000)
91min. Fiction, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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I Have No Memory of My Direction (2005)
77min. Avant-garde, Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Awards:	Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2006
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	I have no memory of my direction is a feature length experimental narrative. The story unfolds through a Canadian-born Japanese woman's voice-over as she dreams her way though Japan. (CFMDC)
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I Love My Work (1994)
2min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Summary:	Some of life's little obstacles that get in the way of a girl and what she really wants: to do her work. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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Intrude Sanctuary (1999)
12min. Uncategorized , Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Hsiao Shou-wen (Taiwan)
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I Pie (A Love Story) (2001)
5min. Uncategorized, Black and White
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Director/Filmmaker:	Nobu Adilman (Canada)
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Summary:	One man's endless passion for baking pies is put under the microscope and examined for your viewing pleasure.
Source:	Reel Asian

Ice Ages (2004)
2min. Animated
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Director/Filmmaker:	Howie Shia (Canada)
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Summary:	Seeking shelter from an ominous thunderstorm, a man sits in a dark pub watching the ice in his glass melt. Director Howie Shia combines his striking graphic illustration style with subtle, enigmatic animation and a haunting, evocative soundtrack to conjure anxiety and foreboding.
Source:	Reel Asian

In Search of the Rising Sun (1999)
5min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Nobu Adilman (Canada)
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Summary:	A Japanese Canadian man is thrown into cross cultural chaos when he is asked to audition for a film.
Source:	Reel Asian

IN Ten Sity (1978)
25min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	In a performance that reportedly almost started an unpredictable riot, Wong releases deep feelings of anger and hopelessness in demonstration of pure emotions and power. Boxed off in an eight-by-eight-foot space, monitored by cameras on all sides, Wong repeatedly throws himself into walls and thrashes to the punk lyrics of The Avengers, Patti Smith, and The Sex Pistols. In Ten Sity is dedicated to his good friend and collaborator Kenneth Fletcher (1954–1978). Almost bashing himself unconscious, Wong's performance compelled people from the audience to throw themselves into the box, and resulted in a violent display. As people uncontrollably interrupt Wong's performance, he grabs a hold of one of them and wrestles her to the ground.
Source:	Reel Asian

In The Dark (2004)
6min. Uncategorized, Black and White
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Director/Filmmaker:	Hot Tam (Canada)
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Summary:	Made in the year after the SARS crisis, In The Dark re-visits images collected from Toronto newspapers. Exposed to black and white re-photographed pictures, all one sees is the darkness of a time passed, a city under attack, politicians scrambling, citizens living in a state of fear, distrust, paranoia and shame.
Source:	Reel Asian

Innocent (2004)
6min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Cliff Kafai Mok (Canada)
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Summary:	A lucidly frightful examination of Catholic repression, this animated short starts off idyllically with two boys meeting and falling in love. But as religious guilt rears its head, Cliff Kafai Mok splendidly uses Christian iconography to represent the inner thoughts of the boy and his conflicts.
Source:	Reel Asian

Insert Credit (2011)
7min.
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Director/Filmmaker:	David Nguyen (Canada)
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Summary:	A playful retro video game tells the story of the director's coming of age and his issues with his father.
Source:	Reel Asian

Irma Vep (2009)
4min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Jong Wook Choi (Canada)
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Summary:	Mad pursuit for the wild life leads to an outrageously messy story about a cover girl who encounters dangerous magazine cut-outs. this wicked stop-motion animation was influenced by Frances Leeming, Choi's teacher at Queen's university.
Source:	Reel Asian

Islands (2002)
9min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Richard Fung (Canada)
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Summary:	In 1956 Richard Fung's Uncle Cluve travelled from Trinidad to Tobago to play a Japanese extra in John Huston's film Heaven Know's Mister Allison. At the time, he had never actually met a Japanese person. By taking his uncle's personal narrative and skillfully weaving it together with scenes from the movie. Fung reconfigures the Hollywood movie, reflecting it back from a completely new perspective.
Source:	Reel Asian

Item Number (2012)
16min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Oliver Husain (Canada)
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Summary:	Influenced by Indian musical dramas of the 1940s and '50s, Item Number features an elegant woman delivering a melodramatic monologue before the curtain rises. Awarded for Best Contribution to German cinema at Oberhausen 2013.
Source:	Reel Asian

Itinerary (2004)
5min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Philip Jonlin Lee (Canada)
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Summary:	The artist's journeys between three countries are identified by flight itineraries, airport codes, waterways and recollections. The recollections, formed from a series of vignettes of experiences traveling from childhood to present, are retold in a matter-of-fact manner as his imagination is morphed back and forth between animated caricatures of specific incidents and an interrogated retelling.
Source:	Reel Asian

Isamu Noquichi: Stones and Paper (1997)
12min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Hiro Narita (USA)
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Summary:	This detailed documentary on VHS examines the distinguished life and career of a prolific Japanese-American sculptor, best known for his naturalistic designs of open space. (Amazon)
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I Saw You (2013)
9min. Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	mina Shum (Hong Kong)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The loneliest BOY places an 'I Saw You' ad in the local weekly and during his epic seven day wait for GIRL to call, he discovers an unlikely community in the three exercising Chinese ladies that frequent the local park. (IMDb)
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010)
15min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Summary:	I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is Director Ann Marie Fleming's animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein's acclaimed illustrated memoir. Through an artful blend of Eisenstein's drawings, inventive animation and the author's own voice, the film weaves together personal and global history. (National Film Board)
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I Won! (DNTO and Sook-Yin Lee get animated!) (2009)
2min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Summary:	This wonderfully weird DNTO animated short is a story by the CBC's Sook-Yin Lee. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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I Would Suffer Cold Hands for You (2000)
5min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	During this simple conversation between two girls at bus stop, we see a life about to change. The backdrop of a cold winter day on a Canadian street creates an intriguing metaphor for the alien world that this immigrant girl, or any teenager for that matter, finds herself needing to traverse in her search for independence and adulthood. (femfilm.ca)
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Idiot's Delight (1983)
5min. Avant-garde, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	"Black and white images of waves dissolving over stills of gravestones, old fences, boats on the shore and a voice mediating the joys of celibacy make up this provocative, original film." -Peter Harcourt/Kay Armatage, Programmers The Toronto International Film Festival (1983)
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If these Walls Could Talk
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Director/Filmmaker:	Midi Onodera (Canada)
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Awards:	Honourable Mention, Mobifest, 2006
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Il Momento LV (2007)
11min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Louise Noguchi (Canada)
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Setting:	United States
Summary:	The video Il Momento LV documents expectations of ideal love and romance in the replicated canals of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. (louisenoguchi.com)
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In Queer Corners (2013)
6min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Sharlene Bamboat and Dina Georgis (Pakistan)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	In Queer Corners examines the ways in which archives harbour stories, those that are spoke, and those left unsaid. Based on serendipitous encounters, and employing the language of dreams and desire, Georgis and Bamboat narrate each other's stories and address the complications of queer re-tellings. (Vtape)
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In Search of my Chinese Girlfriend (2006)
7min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English, Cantonese
Director/Filmmaker:	Lisa Wong (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Chinese lesbian desperately seeks same. Must fetishize intraracial dating. From Inside Out's 2006 Queer Video Mentorship Project. (insideout.ca)
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In Transit (2013)
6min. Experimental, Colour
Language(s):	German
Director/Filmmaker:	Wayne Yung (Canada)
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Setting:	Germany
Summary:	A poetic meditation on friendship and ageing, using spoken word and found footage. (wayneyung.com)
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Inescapable (2012)
90min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English, Arabic
Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada, South Africa
Summary:	Successful Syrian-Canadian businessman Adib (Siddig) lives a comfortable life in Toronto with his loving wife and two college-aged daughters. On a typical afternoon at work, he receives a devastating piece of news: while vacationing in Greece, his eldest daughter secretly took a detour to Damascus -- and vanished. Frantic, Adib immediately makes plans to return to Syria after more than 30 years. As Adib places a series of covert phone calls and makes secret rendezvous with former contacts, it gradually becomes clear that he was once a major player in the Syrian resistance movement. Aided by the ex-fiancée he left behind (Marisa Tomei) and a dubious Canadian embassy official (Joshua Jackson), Adib wades through vague clues, government subterfuge, and a web of conspiracies that stand between him and his daughter. When the regime discovers his former identity and accuses his daughter of being a spy, Adib must once again take up arms and fight for what he holds most dear. (TIFF)
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Inflamed (1993)
8min. Experimental
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Director/Filmmaker:	Julia Kwan (Canada)
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Awards:	Best experimental film, Canadian Student Film Festival award, Montreal (1993); Chairman¹s Award (best film overall), TVOntario Telefest.
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Summary:	This film is about a dream life of a Chinese-Canadian teenager who fears hostile racial discrimination. (Seattle Times)
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Instead of Saying I Wish (2009)
3min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	Arabic
Director/Filmmaker:	Nahed Mansour (Lebanon)
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Setting:	Greece
Summary:	Instead of Saying I Wish consists of edited footage of home movies originally shot on Super 8mm film. Filmed in 1987, the footage documents a variety show at a Greek holiday resort in which audience members are asked to dress, dance, and 'act' Hawaiian. The focus of the work is on the artist, aged four, and her family, as they watch others appropriate a foreign culture with all its stereotypes. As the only non-white people at the variety show, issues of race and appropriation implicit in the work are further complicated. (Vtape)
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Interstate Love Story (1997)
4min. Short
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Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A young couple stop at the side of the highway and battle it out. (IMDb)
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Invocation (2000)
5min. Video Art, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Kagen Goh (Singapore)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A video poem for Spoken Word Artist T. Paul Saint Marie, an ex-drug addict visiting his old haunts in the Downtown Eastside. (Kagen Goh)
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Is it Safe to Come Out Yet? (1994)
21min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Neesha Dosanjh Meminger (India)
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Summary:	Reflections by Sikh women on identity, sexuality and lesbianism within Sikhism. This provocative and challenging film is groundbreaking in that it is the first time that voice has been given to Sikh Lesbians. (Vtape)
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It's Me Again (1993)
49min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Ostensibly a mockumentary on twins, this film explores narrative expectations and our desire for meaning. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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