Asian Film Database
M.O.O.D. (My Obscure Object of Desire) (2006) |
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| 2min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | bravofact! |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | In this bravofact! commissioned cellphone mobisode, the heart tries to transform itself into whatever it thinks its love desires but it all goes to hell. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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Ma Chère Amie (2010) |
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| 4min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ruthann Lee and Isabelle Kim (Canada) |
| Production Company: | With support form the Toronto Arts Council |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | How does a mother conceive of desire and how does society desire motherhood? Ma Chère Amie depicts the everyday realities and fantasies of a young Korean-French-Canadian mother living in Toronto. (Vtape) |
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Machine with Wishbone (2008) |
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| min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Randall Lloyd Okita (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Absitomen Media |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Films |
| Awards: | Best Experimental Film, Brooklyn International Film Festival (2008); Golden Sheaf Award for Best Experimental, Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival (2008); Outstanding Experimental Film, Winnipeg International Film Festival; Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival. |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The film is an entirely live action movie short without special effects, featuring the work of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson. Using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture and kinetic sculpture, Machine with a Wishbone tells the tale of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its journey through a world of snoring beds, paper beds and places you have to see to believe. (http://randallokita.com) |
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Madame Zhang's Dream (2007) |
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| 6min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Mandarin, English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Joe Chang (China) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Madame Zhang's lover goes off to war leaving her heartbroken and lonely. Her anguish and undying love are illustrated by combining colourful animation and Peking Opera. (YouTube) |
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Made in Hong Kong (1997) |
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| 108min. Crime, Drama, Comedy, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Cantonese |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Fruit Chan (China) |
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| Setting: | China |
| Summary: | Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence. (IMDB) |
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Made in Japan (1985) |
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| 3min. Avant-garde, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
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| Setting: | North America |
| Summary: | North American portrayals of Japan perpetuate the myths of Americanised culture, distorting and misrepresenting traditional values still prevalent.(midionodera.com) |
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003) |
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| 88min. Documentary, Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan, of Chinese-Australian parents) |
| Production Company: | National Film Board of Canada, Long Tack Film Inc. |
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| Setting: | China |
| Summary: | Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme racism and world wars to become one of the most successful vaudeville acts of his time. His showmanship was unrivalled, yet he refused to appear in movies because of the way Chinese were portrayed at the time. Why don't we know anything about him? Director Ann Marie Fleming travels the globe searching for the story of her great-grandfather, the cosmopolitan Long Tack Sam. (National Film Board) |
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The Making of Indie TV (2008) |
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| 83min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The Making of…Indie Television? portrays how a low-budget, independent television programme is made without compromising one's creative freedom. Using Granite Forks, a television series filmed on location in Stanstead, Canada as a case study, along with footage from some of independent filmmaker Bashar Shbib's other films, this full-length feature gives the inside scoop on the challenges of independent media production and why it is such a driving force in one director's life. (www.oneira.com) |
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The Manila Marauder (2008) |
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| 10min. Action Comedy, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Vincent Ternida (Philippines) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | An aspiring wrestler's journey to get to the wrestling try-outs and the people who are trying to stop him. Filmed in 10 days for Vancouver Asian Film Festival's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon 2008. (IMDb) |
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Manufactured Landscapes (2006) |
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| 86min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Jennifer Baichwal (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Mongrel Media |
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| Setting: | China |
| Summary: | Manufactured Landscapes follows photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky to China as he travels the country capturing the evidence and effects of China's massive industrial revolution. (National Film Board) |
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Marker (2010) |
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| 28min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Louise Noguchi (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | North America, Japan |
| Summary: | In the film Marker, artist/director Louise Noguchi travels to the shrines of martyred "heroes" from North America and Japan. At her ancestral countries' landmarks, she discovers meditative spaces with mounting levels of violence in their histories. Through Noguchi's visits to shrines, her discussions with visitors and commentary from experts, she exposes the horrific pasts of her native countries' peaceful landmarks. (louisenoguchi.com) |
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Marnie Love (2005) |
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| 15min. Romance | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Norman Yeung (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A luscious mélange of Jean-Luc Godard and François Ozon, this suitably black & white love triangle manages to find the right balance between uncomfortable edginess and droll levity. Marnie and Philip are having a ball while getting to know each other physically... until the husband walks in. Really bad faux-pas or free love gone awry? |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988) |
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| 92min. Fiction, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Deepa Mehta, Norma Bailey, Danièle J. Suissa (India) |
| Production Company: | Sunrise Films |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Three women -- Martha, Ruth and Edie -- ejected from a 'Woman Fulfilled' seminar led by 'the man who understands what it is to be a woman' meet in the lobby of the seminar auditorium and swap the stories they came to the seminar to tell. They are no ordinary stories: they have been adapted by three separate screenwriters from exceptional tales by Alice Munro (How I Met My Husband), Betty Lambert (Guilt) and Cynthia Flood (California Aunts). (femfilm.ca) |
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The Masked Saint (2014) |
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| 111min. Action, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Warren P. Sonoda |
| Production Company: | Ridgerock Entertainment Group/P23 Entertainment |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The journey of a professional wrestler Chris Samuels who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice as he sees fit. As Chris becomes more wrapped up in his call to violence, he must decide if he ultimately wants to solve his church's problems with his fists or from behind the pulpit. Inspired by true events in the life of Pastor Chris Whaley (aka The Masked Saint), the real-life professional-wrestler-turned-pastor. (shootgoodfilms.blogspot.com) |
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May All Your Dreams Come True (1992) |
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| Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Brenda Joy Lem (Canada) |
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Me and the Mosque (2005) |
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| Documentary | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Zarqa Nawaz (England) |
| Production Company: | National Film Board of Canada |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | In Me and the Mosque, journalist and filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz visits mosques throughout Canada and talks to scholars, colleagues, friends and neighbours about equal access for women. Discussions about the historical role of women in the Islamic faith, the current state of mosques in Canada and personal stories of anger, fear, acceptance and defiance punctuate the film. (www.zarqanawaz.com) |
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Memoire of a Fortune Cookie Factory (2003) |
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| 9min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Leonard Lee (Canada) |
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| Summary: | The Lee family takes a nostalgic look back at the origins of their 30 year old family business. Memories of Dad buying an automatic mixer in the States - and of one family member eating the precious inventory on the sly bring to life a small Prairie factory that continues, despite everything, to churn out the ever popular fortune cookies. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Me, Mom and Mona (1993) |
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| 20min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Mina Shum (Hong Kong) |
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| Awards: | Best Short Film, Toronto Film Festival |
| Setting: | Canada |
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Mechanized Labour (2010) |
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| 2min. Mixed Media Installation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Sharlene Bamboat (Pakistan) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | England |
| Summary: | Mechanized Labour comments on the aftermath of interruptive institutional critiques that the London (UK) based art activist group, Liberate Tate, demonstrated on 28 June 2010 at the Tate Britain. (Vtape) |
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Memoirs (1985) |
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| 83min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | National Film Board of Canada, Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A bright-eyed and idealistic young writer named Johnny Daze (Philippe Baylaucq) comes to town prowling for something to write about. What he finds is a sinister back alley forbidden zone peopled by gays, artists, prostitutes, transvestites and virtually every kind of conceivable bad influence. But his absolute undoing (and his initiation into the underworld) comes in the form of a bewitching but volatile artist/garbage collector/femme fatale named Ida Rage (Norma-Jean Sanders). Vampiristically sucked dry of both dramatic and psychological realism, Bashar Shbib's first feature is an exercise in pop-media deconstruction that takes the camp aesthetic to near-apocalyptic extremes. (Geoff Pevere) |
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Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009) |
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| 92min. Fantasy, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Warren P. Sonoda |
| Production Company: | SyFy/Starz |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | When a maniacal sorcerer called the Arkadian overtakes the stronghold of Camelot with an arsenal of beasts from a magical bestiary, King Arthur's daughter Avlynn seeks out the only one with enough power to rise up against the enemy: Merlin. But time has not been on Merlin's side as a new generation of Knights of the disavowed Round Table take action in this fantasy tale. (shootgoodfilms.blogspot.com) |
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Midnight's Children (2012) |
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| 146min. Fiction, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English, Hindi, Urdu |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Deepa Mehta (India) |
| Production Company: | David Hamilton Productions, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, Number 9 Films |
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| Setting: | India |
| Summary: | Saleem and his changeling twin Shiva tumble into the world at midnight on 15 August 1947 -- the moment when India seizes independence from the British Raj. The children born close to Independence Midnight possess special powers and their lives are magically linked to the fate of India, where the fantastic always exists alongside the mundane. Forbidden love, wars, betrayals, and political upheavals tear apart Saleem, his family, and the Midnight's Children. Saleem's humanity and hope are almost extinguished... but hope is hard to annihilate. Based on the best-selling, Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children is an intricately woven, human story: at once epic and intimate, comic and magical. (Telefilm Canada) |
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The Milkman (2001) |
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| 8min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Ken Takamashi (Canada) |
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| Summary: | This unique and touching story brings together two unlikely indiviudals: a middle aged, obese, gay milkman and a horny, teenaged, skinny boy. Both come to share love at its most basic level: A love that both nourishes and sustains life. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Mind Fuck (1995) |
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| 25min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Kagen Goh (Singapore) |
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| Awards: | First Prize, Long Documentary Category, TV Ontario Telefest (1996) Second Place, Independent Production, Cascadia Moving Images Festival (1996); Second Place, Documentary, Student Canadian International Annual Film Festival (1996) |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Call it acting or prostitution, the phone sex phenomenon reflects the darker side of the telemarketing industry. From the absurd to the disturbing, mind Fuck is a brave foray into the strange and fascinating psychological world of phone sex in which the real operators finally get to freely speak their minds. (Kagen Goh) |
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Minor Crime (2000) |
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| 2min. Short, Black and White | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Nicole Chung (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Des X girl has a weird day at the park. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Minor Keys: Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Talent (2004) |
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| 53min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Mieko Ouchi (Canada) |
| Production Company: | National Film Board of Canada |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A fascinating look into the lives of two extraordinarily gifted young people and their no less gifted teacher, James Keene, himself a former child prodigy. (Manitoba Library Association) |
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Minus (1999) |
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| 3min. Experimental, Black and white | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysian Borneo) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The film is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. This is Chong's first 16mm film and is inspired by Ritchie Hawkin's Concept albums. (CFMDC) |
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Mirage (1998) |
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| 17min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Wang Chun-hsiung (Taiwan) |
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Miss Chinatown (1997) |
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| 4min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Paul Wong (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The subjects are all full or part ethnic Chinese, and together they represent a diverse face of the Chinese-Canadian community and different perspectives on identity, home, sex and race. (www.5.paulwongprojects.com) |
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Miss Popularity (2006) |
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| 6min. Uncategorized, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | English , German |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Germany |
| Summary: | A gay man uses archival footage to describe how he juggles the demands of multiple relationships. (wayneyung.com) |
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Miss Toronto Gets a Life (2010) |
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| Uncategorized | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Yi Cu (China) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
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Mixed Match (2015) |
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| Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Meditating Bunny Studio |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Mixed Match is an inspirational, emotional, and evocative feature-length documentary that explores the need to find mixed ethnicity bone marrow and cord blood donors to donate to multiethnic patients suffering from life threatening blood diseases such as leukemia. This live action and animated film is a dramatic journey focusing on the main characters' struggles to survive against incredible odds. (mixedmarrow.org) |
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Mokhtar (2010) |
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| 16min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Arabic |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Halima Ouardiri (Switzerland) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Morocco |
| Summary: | Based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy who lives with his family of goatherds in a remote Moroccan village. One day, the boy finds a fallen owl and decides to keep it, despite the fact that the owl is considered a bad omen. Mokhtar's new pet becomes a symbol of rebellion against his family and an icon of his fledgling independence. Kinship, religion and spirituality are all confronted in this astounding piece that celebrates inner and outer strength. (Magali Simard) |
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Mom, Madonna & Me (2001) |
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| 54min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Atif Y. Siddiqi (Pakistan) |
| Production Company: | United States |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | United States |
| Summary: | In this very personal exploration of identity, the filmmaker looks for reflections of himself and finds them in the images of his mother, a Pakistani homemaker and Madonna, the international pop icon. On his journey toward self-love and maturity, he sees how his gender identity and professional life have been framed by his admiration of these two women. (Vtape) |
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Mom's Advice (2004) |
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| 4min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Heather Keung |
| Production Company: | Filmed as part of a Trinity Square Video Artists' Residency |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Mom's Advice is a short video about the filmmaker's mother, the cashiers at the local grocery store and a regular diet of healthy living. As the video focuses on the checkout, the mother discusses her philosophies about life, happiness and the pleasures of the everyday. (Vtape) |
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Mommy, What's Wrong? (1997) |
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| 13min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Anita Chang (USA) |
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| Summary: | A young woman's relationship to her mother and sense of personal history is revealed in an evocative docu-memoir composition of home movie footage, recordings and the subconscious thread of a recurring dream. Thoughts of immigration, motherhood, daughterhood and spirituality culminate in a cathartic relay of strength between mother and daughter. This strong emotional undertow conjures a desire to look deeper into the artifact, evidence and testimony of memory. (The Center for Asian American Media) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Monktown |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Chris Fung |
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More Intimacy (1999) |
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| 8min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Wu Chun-hai (Taiwan) |
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| Summary: | The film uses reproduction, repetition and the interformat of film to explore an investiage film's essential elements, Behind the illusion, these elements allow the viewer to discover the source of film, film itself as material, the mechanical movement, projection through light. (Reel Asian) |
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Morning Will Come (2008) |
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| 15min. Experimental, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Pouyan Jafarizadeh Dezfoulian (Iran) |
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| Awards: | Best Experimental Film, Cinesiege (2008); VTape Award, Images Festival, Toronto (2009) |
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| Summary: | This story about a hero with a thousand faces deals with gender identity against the backdrop of traditional cultural values and expectations. (York University) |
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Motel Cactus (1997) |
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| 91min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Korean |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Park Ki-Yong (Korea) |
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| Setting: | Korea |
| Summary: | Motel Cactus consists of four episodes, all of which take place in Room 407 of Motel Cactus, a love hotel in Seoul: (1.) A girl celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend, because it is the only place she feels entirely secure with him. (2.) A student has rented room 407 for several hours to shoot a scene with a girl for his video film, a college project. (3.) A salesman meets a woman in a bar. Both very drunk, they arrive in room 407. Afterwards he is back in the room, alone. (4.) He is soon joined by his old love from his college days. Both are vaguely hoping to rekindle their old relationship. (IMDB, Ralph Lange) |
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Mouth (2009) |
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| 9min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Arabic |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Arif Noorani |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Lebanon |
| Summary: | Smile, cry, laugh, eat, scream, kiss, beat, whisper, confess...: All in one MOUTH! The gate of words, tunnel of voices, the opening for communication and breathing, room of feeding and… So many things occur through, within and inside the red opening in the facial surface, it is beyond what it shows… (http://www.zhibit.org/nahedmansour) |
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Mouse (1997) |
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| 11min. Short, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Greg Pak (USA) |
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| Setting: | USA |
| Summary: | A young man and a woman discuss the semantics of abortion but there's a mouse in the house. The guy musters all his brains and dexterity to kill the mouse. The woman leaves. A story of mice and men. (Reel Asian) |
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Murder on Rock Island (2010) |
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| 70min. Horror, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures International |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
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Music Might have Deceived Us (2000) |
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| 6min. Experimental, Black and white | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysian Borneo) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | This elegant mini-essay on desire is a series of peek-a-boo mattes that admit moments glimpsed in passing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release. (Mike Hoolboom) |
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Muybride Strings (Les Cordes De Muybridge) (2011) |
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| 13min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Koji Yamamura (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Based on the life and work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Moving between a galloping horse, a mother's surrealistic daydreams, and Muybridge's troubled life, the film explores the irrepresible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
My Best Dress (2012) |
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| 4min. Queer | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Calvin Hwang Hudson |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | The title My Best Dress is interpreted in two divergent yet related directions: the attire one would wear out to a club, or alternatively, to a funeral. In this context, the video represents both a celebration of youth culture, particularly with finding acceptance, expression and love within queer youth ball culture, and conversely, the inherent dangers associated with the reckless, uninformed and unprepared dark-side of underground culture. (CFMDC) |
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My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches (1994) |
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| 2min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Summary: | A schoolyard clapping song prepares us for future dysfunctional relationships. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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My Father, Francis (2013) |
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| 12min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Casey Mecija (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | My Father, Francis is a father/daughter collaboration and a commentary on kinship, diasporic labour, devotion and the factory as a site of creativity. (CFMDC) |
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My German Boyfriend (2004) |
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| 18min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English , German |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada, Germany |
| Summary: | A gay Chinese-Canadian encounters ethnic stereotypes as he seeks his ideal boyfriend in Berlin. This video is a comedy about mistaken cultural identities, a diary of immigrant isolation, and a love letter to a boyfriend who might have been. (wayneyung.com) |
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My Grand Canal (2013) |
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| 19min. Uncategorized | |
| Language(s): | |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Johnny Ma (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Remembered by his 10-year-old son, a captain tries to collect a debt to save his fleet of boats. Like a Greek tragedy told with Chinese pop songs, the film is a unique twist on personal histories. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
My Heart the Travel Agent (2002) |
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| 2min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Wayne Yung (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada, Germany |
| Summary: | A dream about subways and foreign boyfriends, part of the 'My Heart Series III'. (wayneyung.com) |
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My Name Is Tuan (2008) |
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| 7min. Uncategorized | |
| Language(s): | |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Nguyen-Anh Nguyen (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A young Vietnamese boy adjusting in very subtle ways to western life meets a young girl at his new school and befriends her. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
My Niagara (1992) |
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| 39min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Helen Lee (South Korea) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
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My Place (2009) |
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| 15min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Our witty and charming heroine struggles to make green choices in a confusing world. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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My Toxic Baby (2009) |
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| 46min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | min Sook Lee (South Korea) |
| Production Company: | Storyline Entertainment Inc. and Toxic Baby Productions |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | With heightened awareness of health risks posed by chemicals used in everyday products, modern parenting is fast becoming a decision-making minefield. Just how far would you go to protect your growing child? As award-winning filmmaker min Sook Lee discovers in her eye-opening, intimate and wryly funny documentary My Toxic Baby, it's not so easy going green. (min Sook Lee) |
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My Wounded Head (2014) |
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| 13min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Stephen Chen (Singapore) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | This experimental short film that investigates issues of representation, preconceived notions and reflexivity. (CFMDC) |
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