Asian Film Database

Waack Revolt - A Dance Film (2014)
11min. Drama, Colour, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Sonia Hong
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Waack Revolt - A Dance Film is a twisted story of love, defiance and the overwhelming urge to dance. (Sonia Hong)
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WAJD: Music, Politics & Ecstasy (2014)
86min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Amar Chebib (Syria)
Production Company:	Salam Films
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Setting:	Turkey, Syria, Canada, USA, France
Summary:	A visual journey exploring the sacred musical culture of Western Asia and its delicate relationship with Islam and the state. (Amar Chebib)
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Wallflower (1989)
57min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Gina & Kaspar Jivan Saxena (Germany)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A shy person, frightened at social settings, makes several attempts to communicate and then succeeds in a bizarre and unusual way. Deliberately focusing on the one who rarely gets much attention and recognition; the theory is that inside every introvert there is an extrovert and vice versa, and that there are myriad ways of expressing human experience, not always through conventional channels. (CFMDC)
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Waltz (2004)
23min. Uncategorized, Colour and Black and White
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Director/Filmmaker:	Rob Shaw (Canada)
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Summary:	Life for recent immigrants is full of challenges but for Lan, the hardest thing is missing her little sister back in Vietnam.
Source:	Reel Asian

Water (2005)
117min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	Hindi, Sanskrit
Director/Filmmaker:	Deepa Mehta (India)
Production Company:	Mongrel Media, David Hamilton Productions
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. (IMDb)
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Waving (1987)
5min. Avant-Garde, Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Waving is a short film exploring the cyclical rituals of life, death and the family. A personal narrative chronicles the relationship between the author and her grandmother. Visual imagery works to create a strong metaphor, suggestive of the overwhelming, consuming power of grief. (femfilm.ca)
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Ways of Something (2014)
1min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Thirty artists were each invited to produce one minute segments, and this is minute 23 of the 30-minute program. Curated and distributed by Lorna Mills, this remake is based off the first episode of a four-part series of 30-minute films created by art theorist John Berger and produced by Mike Dibb. In the original film, voice-of-God narration about iconic European paintings offer a careful dissection of traditional 'fine art' media and the way society has come to understand them as art. This video invites artists to respond to what Berger calls 'learned assumptions' about art in dialogue with the camera and the screen in its reproduction. It is, in effect, art about art about television about the Internet. (paulwongprojects.com)
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The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer (2014)
10min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Randall Lloyd Okita (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The film takes the viewer on a 10-minute journey into the psyche of two brothers who share the emotional scars, but not the memories, of a never-articulated childhood trauma. (http://jccabulletin-geppo.ca/artist-talk-randall-lloyd-okita/)
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The Wedding Murders (2015)
90min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Bashar Shbib (Syria)
Production Company:	Oneira Pictures International
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The Wedding Murders is a story of obsession, told through the lives of two men – a serial killer and a detective. Henry Sparks (Mark Houghton) has worshiped Detective Prospect Jenkins (Ross Partridge) from the day he met him in the schoolyard when he was10-years-old. As adults, a series of murders have brought Henry and Prospect closer together, as Prospect becomes more estranged from his wife, Geena (Alexandra Woodward). Prospect will be drawn deeper into the world of homosexual serial killers, where he will learn just how far worship can go. (www.oneira.com)
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Welcome Back (2004)
5min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Joseph Luk (Canada)
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Summary:	In his first video, 22-year-old Joseph, born in Hong Kong but now studying and living in Toronto, contemplates what it's like to leave his home behind.
Source:	Reel Asian

Well Done (2010)
7min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	Spanish, English
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Setting:	Nicaragua
Summary:	A foreign landowner negotiates with the locals and oversees digging of a well on his property. The video was recorded in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, and was presented as part of 'LED Down The Garden Path' at the Bloedel Conservatory as part of Paul Wong's '5', a series of site-specific installations and events commissioned by the City of Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Wet Heat Drifts Through the Afternoon (1997)
8min. Short, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Prelude to the fall of a 12-year-old Muslim girl. (iffr.com)
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What about Pinky? (2001)
3min. Uncategorized, Colour, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Nas Khan (Canada)
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Summary:	Yeah, what about Pinky? Tough question with a name like that! Is she ex-girlfriend, friend-turned-foe, renegade child or wayward lover? This short video (produced in one day) features the one of the director's entire family discussing their turbulent relationship to the star--Pinky. (Vtape)
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What are you Anyway? (2005)
10min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
Trailer/Excerpt/Film:	Film
Awards:	Best Animated Short Subject, Canadian Awards for the Electronic & Animated Arts; Best Animation, Los Angeles ARPA International Film Festival; Edith Lando Peace Prize and Most Innovative Film, Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth; NFB Kids Prize for Best Animated Film, Freeze Frame International Film Festival for Kids; People's Choice and Best Overall Production, Okanagan Film Festival.
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Follow the adventures of the Super Nip as filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns explores his cultural backgrounds growing up a mix of Japanese and Caucasian in Kelowna, British Columbia. This short classically animated film looks at particular periods in Jeff's life where he battled with finding an identity being a half minority - from his childhood origins to the epic showdown against the monster truck drivin' redneck crew. What Are You Anyways? is a humorous yet serious story of struggle and love and finding one's identity through the trials and tribulations of growing up. (YouTube)
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What Remains (2010)
4min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Stefanie Wong (Canada)
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Summary:	As a young girl drifts through imaginary and real worlds, she encounters a mysterious creature in a closet of memories.
Source:	Reel Asian

What You Eat (2008)
9min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Jennifer Liao (Canada)
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Summary:	Morality has a sharp aftertaste in this tale of growing up in the Canadian woods. A boy contends with his domineering father who believes that whatever you kill, you must also eat.
Source:	Reel Asian

When I Grow Up (2009)
10min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Toshimi Ono (Canada)
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Summary:	A portrait of a delightful man who has taught Chinese language and Asian cultures for 40 years in Canada.
Source:	Reel Asian

When You Fall Off Your Horse (2000)
Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Louise Noguchi (Canada)
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Summary:	The videos depict wild-west acts such as trick roping, bullwhipping, knife throwing and trick-riding. This video is a part of the Language of the Rope series (1998-2005), which stemmed from Noguchi's lessons in trick-roping that she received from a wild-west rodeo performer. (louisenoguchi.com)
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White Day (2007)
83min. Experimental, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Cuong Ngo (Vietnam)
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White/Out (2000)
5min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Lisa Faddoui (Australia)
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Summary:	What is whiteness without dark marginal lines of defintion? Literally nothing. White/Out is an experimental in exposing that tries to hide under its multiple and camouflaged layers. (Reel Asian)
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Wide Eyed (2000)
9min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Jane Kim (Canada)
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Summary:	In an awkward attempt to meet the ideal western standards of beauty, Julie, a 16-year-old, Korean-Canadian, obsesses about double eyelid surgery. Her tomboy sister Jean is fascinated yet repulsed by her older sisters serious body-image issues. Neither of them can come to any entirely comfortable sort of compromise on the right way to love each other, or themselves. (Asian American Film Database)
Source:	Reel Asian

Wild Goose Daddy (2012)
Comedy, Colour
Language(s):	Korean
Director/Filmmaker:	Samuel Kiehon Lee (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	An action buddy-comedy romp about a middle-aged Korean mobster who has to team up with a young drag queen in order to find his missing daughter in Toronto. (http://www.simcoe.com/whatson-story/3123772-composer-scores-korean-film/)
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Williamsburg Experiment (2002)
44min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Chandra Siddan Gargi (India)
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Setting:	United States
Summary:	In the fall of 1999 Martin Wrede went to New York (from Germany) to perform the Williamsberg Experiment. The plan was to paint in Williamsberg, Brooklyn, for two months and sell all the paintings the following month. Simultaneously an art experiment and a documentary record of it, Williamsburg Experiment treats selling art as part of the art, of communication, where the artist performs "the Artist". This is shadowed by the moot point: is an artist someone who earns a living from his art ('a success') or is he outside the economy of exchange ('a loser')? The experiment was designed to explore the relationship between art, money, and value. But even in a controlled art experiment where Martin's hilarious and excruciating attempts to sell his works are played out, the economy of investment invades - the value invested in the art objects threatens the experiment. (Vtape)
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Will Curiousity Kill the Cat? (2002)
3min. Uncategorized, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Tomoko Tomiyaka & Tak Koyama (Canada)
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Summary:	A cat, a mouse, a dog, two people, and a box. Will curiosity kill the cat? Will curiosity kill them all?
Source:	Reel Asian

The Wind Blows Towards Me Particularly (1998)
5min. Short, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ruba Nadda (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A chance encounter between a Muslim wife and a Canadian man. (IMDb)
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Window Horses (Karaoke Project) (2009)
3min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Stickgirl observes the horses outside her window and reminisces about her father, world history and the way things are. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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A Winter Song (Une Chanson D'Hiver) (2011)
36min. Documentary
Language(s):	French/Mandarin (English subtitles)
Director/Filmmaker:	Aonan Yang (Canada)
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Summary:	Based on a true story, with a cast of real corner store owners. A Chinese immigrant in Québec awaits a medical diagnosis, worried about how he will face his wife and child with the possible bad news while he hides his symptoms and continues to work seven days a week.
Source:	Reel Asian

Women (1999)
5min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Charlene Shih (Taiwan)
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Words of a Generation - China (2013)
Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	Chinese
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	China
Summary:	Words of a Generation began in China to explore the country's "'70s" generation through interviews with 26 people on seven core topics: work, consume, love, connect, play, explore and dream. This film is a part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-china/)
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Words of a Generation - India (2014)
Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	India
Summary:	Ten members of India's "Crossroad" generation born after the 1975 to 1977 Emergency speak proudly of India as a "land of opportunity" while sharing their own struggles for independence and space. Part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-india/)
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Words of a Generation - Indonesia (2014)
Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	Indonesian, English
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	Indonesia
Summary:	Growing up as teenagers during the fall of Suharto, these 10 people from across Indonesia share heartfelt insights into what it means to be part of the country's "new democracy" generation. Part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-indonesia)
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Words of a Generation - Malaysia (2013)
min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	Malaysia
Summary:	Ten Malaysians, who grew up surrounded by the country's "Vision 2020" national agenda, paint their personal stories and draw upon their hopes for the future, their families and Malaysia itself. Part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-malaysia/)
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Words of a Generation - Singapore (2013)
Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	Singapore
Summary:	The Singapore edition is a series of intimate interviews featuring the personal observations and perspectives of 10 people from Singapore's "in-between" generation on a diverse range of topics. Part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-singapore/).
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Words of a Generation - Vietnam (2013)
min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Xia Lee (China)
Production Company:	Edelman
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Setting:	Vietnam
Summary:	Born after the Vietnam War and before the start of the "Doi Moi" economic reforms, these 10 people from across Vietnam recount being part of the greatest changes the country has ever known. Part of the Words of a Generation series, a research and short film project designed to provide a personal window into the lives of people who have lived through and are pushing rapid transformation in society. (http://wordsofageneration.co/the-films-vietnam/)
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