A dwarf, a dragon, and a golden egg. Yet the real fairy-tale of this film is the journey of Jeanmarie, the Dutch street performer. In an adventurous project, Jeanmarie teams up with youth worker Frank to travel through the last remaining untouched regions of China, performing his new show to local children. As they transport their wondrous music machine from village to village, they bring laughter and intrigue to all who witness their magical performance, reuniting reality with fantasy, Europe and Asia. In a film as imaginative and whimsical as Jeanmarie's play itself, this is a poignant tale of passion and conviction to follow and fulfil your dreams.
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Late night in Jakarta, a woman walks home alone and becomes a man's sexual harassment target, but things take an unexpected turn when the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
A la selva del sud-est d'Àsia es roda una superproducció sobre la guerra del Vietnam en què intervenen diverses estrelles: Kirk Lazarus, un actor que ha guanyat tres Oscars; Jeff Portnoy, estrella d'una popular i grollera saga de pel·lícules, Alpa Chino, estrella del hip-hop ficat a actor, i el novell Kevin Sandusky. A mesura que avança el rodatge, les coses van malament en pitjor, sobretot per a Damien, el director de la cinta. Arriba un moment en què els actors, perduts a la meitat de la jungla, arriben a creure que Damien segueix rodant amb càmeres ocultes; la veritat és que estan realment perduts i s'han d'enfrontar a una veritable guerra i actuar com si fossin autèntics soldats si volen sortir amb vida d'aquest infern.
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
Aprofitant l'avinentesa d'una conferència internacional contra el terrorisme, un grup terrorista planeja un atemptat a Manila. Assabentat de la mort del seu fill Abdul durant una operació encapçalada pel capità Randal, Omar Malik, el líder rebel, decideix venjar-se tallant el coll a la Jenna, una ex-"marine" filla del general Wallace, de la base militar de la regió, i amant del capità. L'assessor d'en Malik, el terrorista internacional Sayid Nassif, li recomana que demani un rescat milionari per la noia en comptes de matar-la. El capità Randal allibera la Jenna, però acaba caient ell en mans dels rebels. Havent tornat a la base, l'ex-"marine" aconsegueix que l'enviïn a desmantellar el campament rebel i rescatar, al seu torn, el capità.
In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. Meanwhile, the leopard begins to hunt the inhabitants of the island.
What do you get when you cross a retired dragon deity and a sailor? A disaster, a wrecked ship, and a hungry crew stranded on the shores of Singapura.
A street sweeper, The messenger of the red-blooded letter to the soldier found out it was abused. Responsible for the extermination of neutralists during the Gestok/Gestapu era in Bali.
There are only 320 Mlabri people left on this planet. They came out of the jungle in Northern Thailand on the border to Laos one generation ago. The Mlabri people used to be hunters and gatherers. Today they scrape out a meagre existence at the bottom of society working as day labourers for the Hmong farmers, and living in shacks on the outskirts of larger Hmong villages. The Mlabri people are currently going through a transformation process, which has taken many other people thousands of years. Now the young people are faced with the choice of staying with their families in the village or adapting to the Thai society. How do they experience the meeting between their own culture and the local, regional and national majority cultures? In this film young Mlabri tell about their past, present and future as they see it; all expressed in their unique and expressive Mlabri language.
It's Seattle 2006: A refugee teenager from Cambodia begins recording a video diary early in the summer to explain the meaning of "thug life." But ultimately his summer is defined by tragedy. Awarded Best Documentary at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2019
A young Chinese Malaysian woman becomes involved in the sordid world of human trafficking as she tries to make a better life for herself with a dream of moving to Taiwan.
As an omnibus of short films, Art Through Our Eyes is inspired by the art collection found at the National Gallery Singapore. Each of the five directors – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Ho Yuhang and Joko Anwar – handpicked a masterpiece from the 19th and 20th century as inspiration for their short films.
The Thai government sends a man in undercover to a guerrilla compound to bring down Thailand's biggest drug lord, who supplies opium to most of the world.
A musical, visual journey. Recorded and filmed on location, it resurrects ancient and forgotten folk music from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, India and Myanmar. The experience is brought to life for a contemporary audience through a minimalist orchestration of modern electronic waves and flows, thereby preserving the integrity of the music. The musicians come primarily from the coastal communities, towns and villages practically wiped of the world map by the Tsunami of December 26, 2004. It's beauty lies in it's purity and simplicity, a non-judgmental point of view. For the international team who came together, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.