Projects in genres: Asian

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A refugee is forced to confront her guilt. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Against the backdrop of the Women, Life, Freedom protest movement in Iran, filmmaker Elahe Esmaili is helping her parents to pack up the family home. As the boxes stack up, discussions flare between the generations: Elahe does not wear the hijab, embodying the courage of her generation’s struggles. But can changing a society be as simple as moving house? Official Selection Visions du Réel 2024 - World premiere Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2024 Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025

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Andreas Waldem, a Korean-Swedish Elvis impersonator enters an Elvis Tribute Act Competition that takes place Porthcawl a faded seaside town in South Wales. The film follow his journey as he delves into his hopes, fears and dreams whilst simultaneously peeling back the layers of Andreas' conflicts within his identity.

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DOU is a contemporary adaptation of a Chinese folktale from the 18th-century tale collection Liaozhai. After a young piano teacher falls victim to her dictatorial husband's abuse, she transforms into a fox and haunts the spaces of the living. Official Selection Durban International Film Festival 2025

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Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Filmed over a period of 10 years, this is the story of how a group of courageous fishermen in India’s Gulf of Kutch join forces with an NGO in Washington, DC to take on one of the world’s most powerful institutions, the World Bank Group. For years, the fishermen of the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and their social movement MASS have been battling coal-fired power plants that threaten their livelihoods and traditional way of life by polluting the water and the countryside. Then, in 2015, their fight took an international dimension when US lawyers at EarthRights International took on their case to file the first-ever lawsuit against the World Bank’s private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation. One of the most destructive power plants in the Gulf of Kutch is owned by Indian multinational Tata, who received funding from the IFC. The IFC claims absolute legal immunity but the fisherman challenge this in ever higher courts. In 2018 the case makes its way to the US Supreme Court. Will the fishermen be able to change international law to hold the IFC to account – and save their livelihoods? Official Selection Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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After the death of her Naani Ji, Mira arrives back in her hometown and is confronted by the fact that she knows very little about the woman who passed away. She must learn more about her grandmother's life and the only way she knows is through a cup of tea. Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2024 - Children's and Youth Film Competition

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Afan (19) grapples with heartbreak as he embarks with close friend Kush (30) on a day's trip to celebrate his upcoming marriage. Tensions rise, forcing them to confront their past and mend their bond, amidst their shared grief and hope for a brighter future. A story of an intimate friendship between two men, offering a fresh take on brown masculinity.

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A therapist from Berlin University of the Arts navigates delicate emotional terrain as she provides solace to a bereft student grappling with a peer's suicide on campus.

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EARTH IS ALL MELODY weaves binaural field recordings, audio interviews and non-human polyphonies into a speculative soundscape of an ecological utopia. Drawing on discussions with environmental activists, disability rights campaigners, poets, urban planners and K-Pop musicians, this imagined future eco-city celebrates sustainability, accessibility and community through sound and multi-species connection.

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Two women, one from the African Diaspora, the other from the East Asian Diaspora, recall the risk, and fearless endeavour made on their behalf. A story of self-sacrifice, self-awakening, and self-expression. They embarked on treacherous journeys across precarious seas, unified in a desire to be all that they can dream.

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An ecologically conscious non-fiction short celebrating the biodiverse soundscapes of Taiwan. Using sounds and signage from the world’s first Quiet Trail (Cueifong Lake) and Quiet Urban Park (Yangmingshan) as starting points, Listen Closely encourages the act of listening to create a more harmonious and interconnected future.