Cinemasia 2023

Back in her family home, the young Chinese director Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A LONG JOURNEY HOME tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational, temporal and cinematographic journey that stirs up emotions while challenging the evolution of China's intergenerational family models from the inside. By leaving her camera rolling in a static shot, the director takes part in the film and finds the time she needs for confidences to be divulged. Two life accounts in particular unfold: those of her mother and her father. The former is looking to the future, the latter is entrenched in the past. Yet these two irreconcilable individuals still live under the same roof. The dramas and disagreements cast a shadow over the house and form passing yet cyclical storms. Recent Chinese history is implicitly outlined, the rapid growth of the 1990s having left a mark on society as a whole. A LONG JOURNEY HOME is a brilliant quest for emancipation, seeking a place among one's own people.

Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.

It is about the encounter between an ace pupil and a professional exams cheat.

A young man working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.

A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

A young apprentice healer tries to suppress his supernatural abilities so he can fit in with the other kids, but when a malicious spirit breaks out in his apartment he decides to use his abilities while dark family secrets are revealed.

A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Witness the legend's origin.

Galang, a young man, is consumed with guilt after leaving his sister alone at a concert, where she died in a human stampede. Out of vengeance and curiosity, he sets out to discover the truth about his sister's untimely death by pretending to be a fan of a rock and metal underground band Axfiksia. Galang meets Asmara, the manager of the band, who accepts him as a crew member. As Galang gets to know both the band and underground music scene, he slowly but surely finds the answers he has been looking for, while simultaneously learning more about himself. Galang is an introspective journey about coming to peace with grief that also addresses-and challenges- stereotypes attached around rock and metal music.

The story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.

Family has been torn apart ever since a turbulent winter solstice dinner. Eight years later, A cousin living in abroad returns to Hong Kong in the hope of ending the long-lasting feud during another traditional festive gathering.

The International Unit and The Domestic Unit of the Korean Spy Agency are tasked with the mission of uncovering a North Korean Spy known as Donglim who is deeply embedded within their agency.

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

Xiao Lan's first sexual experience is at the beach with Wu Miao, but when he loses interest, she turns to men on the Internet for comfort. This is a journey that every girl is destined to embark on at the crossroads between sex and love.

Follows dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape attempt leads to a riot.

A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

A time-traveling tale of a woman living in the Peninsular Malaysian east coast, who gets entangled with a man in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

A family reunion dinner turns awkward when Bernard arrives with his new girlfriend, who happens to be big brother Steve's old flame. With Steve's casual partner comes to his rescue, anything that can go wrong goes laughably berserk.

A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.

After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify...as the house reveals secrets of its own.

Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.

Chak struggles to keep his cleaning company afloat under the pandemic as he meets Candy, who needs a job and Chu, her little daughter.

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

Two desperately ill women find solace in each other's company. They journey towards the fabled "sea of clouds" before dying, not knowing destiny has a twist in this eternal puzzle called life.