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The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 23 critic votes
Streaming on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 15 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 8 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy, MUBI Amazon Channel
In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.
Perfumed nightmare (1977)
Kidlat Tahimik · 7 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films
Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole. When he moves to Paris, disillusionment sets in as his dreams are gradually shattered.
The Claws of Light (1975)
Lino Brocka · 5 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
Lav Diaz · 4 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI Amazon Channel
Spanning from 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 3 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
SUD SANAEHA (2002)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 3 critic votes
In Thailand, an illegal immigrant from Myanmar with a mysterious skin rash, his girlfriend, and her friend visit the doctor's before spending the afternoon on individual and collective adventures.
Heremias (2006)
Lav Diaz · 3 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI Amazon Channel
A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016)
Lav Diaz · 3 critic votes
Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this myth, undertaking an expedition into history through various interwoven narrative threads, held together by an exploration of the individual’s role in history.
Memoria (2021)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 3 critic votes
After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
Kisapmata (1981)
Mike De Leon · 2 critic votes
A young womans gets married but her possessive father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994)
Kidlat Tahimik · 2 critic votes
Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western." The decade-long path of the film encompasses the assassination of Benigno Aquino and the subsequent Yellow Revolution that brought Corazon Aquino to power, the decommissioning of the US air base Camp John Hay, and the younger Kidlat's trajectory through school, all shown through a Third World Projector salvaged from a junk pile on Navajo land.
By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
Anocha Suwichakornpong · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla
Film-maker Ann has an upcoming project about the 1976 massacre of Thai students. She interviews Taew, a survivor, at a mountain retreat only to have her perspective change as the project progresses.
The Woman Who Left (2016)
Lav Diaz · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Kino Film Collection
After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her — her ruling class ex-lover.
Season of the Devil (2018)
Lav Diaz · 2 critic votes
In late 1970s Philippines, a military-controlled militia oppresses a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. Fearless young doctor Lorena opens a clinic for the poor but disappears without a trace. Her activist poet husband sets out to find her.
After The Curfew (1954)
Usmar Ismail · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A hero of revolution returns to civilian life to find the new society very different from the ideals he fought for.
We Want to Live (1956)
Vĩnh Noãn · 1 critic vote
A realistic depiction of the bloody land reform campaign in North Vietnam under Communist-dominated Vietminh.
El filibusterismo (1962)
Gerardo de León · 1 critic vote
A vindictive Crisostomo Ibarra returns, and this time, disguised as a jeweler named Simoun, where he decides to solve the country's issues through violence.
Atheis (1974)
Sjumandjaja · 1 critic vote
Adapted from Achdiat Kartamihardja's novel of the same name. It follows a young Muslim man named Hasan who, through his interactions with others, loses his faith.
Three Years Without God (1976)
Mario O'Hara · 1 critic vote
Set during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.
TONGPAN (1977)
Euthana Mukdasanit · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before, and his struggles to make ends meet.
Manila by Night (1980)
Ishmael Bernal · 1 critic vote
The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families conflict with each other as they live on the streets, which are rampant with drugs and prostitution.
Turumba (1983)
Kidlat Tahimik · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
Bitter Coffee (1984)
Teguh Karya · 1 critic vote
Togar, a student from North Sumatra is expected by his parents to graduate. Because his talent is in journalism, Togar fails and becomes a labourer in a cement factory. With the assistance of Buyung, Togar begins writing for a newspaper and then quits his job in the cement factory.
Morning Star (1986)
Chaerul Umam · 1 critic vote
Bintang Kejora, an adventurer, is a drug seller who is boastful. He is blacklisted everywhere for being a fraud. One time he comes to a drought-stricken village, merely to see a girl he caught a glimpse of, sticking her head out of the window of a passing bus.
The Elephant Keeper (1987)
Chatrichalerm Yugala · 1 critic vote
A man whose livelihood comes from traditional logging with his elephant battles police who tell him his work is illegal.
Puisi Tak Terkuburkan (2000)
Garin Nugroho · 1 critic vote
The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500,000 and two million lives.
Rabun (2003)
Yasmin Ahmad · 1 critic vote
It tells a story about a free-spirited older couple, Pak Atan and Mak Inom who decide to spend more time in the country after getting tired of city life. But they find that life in the old village isn't a good thing when they get cheated by a distant relative, Yem, out of some money. They cut him off and Yem plots revenge. Meanwhile, in the city, the couple's daughter Orked is being wooed by a young gentleman.
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
Rithy Panh · 1 critic vote
Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
MAH NAKORN (2004)
Wisit Sasanatieng · 1 critic vote
Pod decides to change jobs after losing his finger at a sardine packing plant. His new job as a security guard comes with an unexpected perk in the form of a lanky maid who carries a mysterious white book.
Opera Jawa (2006)
Garin Nugroho · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Fawesome
This is the story about Setyo, Siti and Ludiro, who were the performer of Javanese Ramayana's Wayang Wong. Setyo and Siti are spouse who live in a village by selling earthenware products. In the village, live as well Ludiro, the head of the stockyard, who is very wealthy and secretly in love with Siti. Conflicts arrived as Setyo's earthenware company is going bankrupt and Siti started to took notice in Ludiro's desire to win her love. These triangle love transform into a civil war in the village that brings not only extremity and injustice, but also the death of the loved ones.
The Anthem (2006)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 1 critic vote
One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the Royal Anthem in movie theaters before feature presentations. This short presents a "Cinema Anthem" which comically praises and blesses the feature to come.
Death in the Land of Encantos (2007)
Lav Diaz · 1 critic vote
A poet hearkens back to his Philippine village after years abroad in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under landslides, he wanders the countryside, reconnecting with friends, lovers, and family whose lives teeter on the brink of destruction.
Melancholia (2008)
Lav Diaz · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
Century of Birthing (2011)
Lav Diaz · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
An artist struggles to finish his work while a storyline about a cult plays in his head. As the cult spirals towards a fundamentalism that will destroy the world, the artist decides to destroy his muse to redeem the world.
Mumblecore (2011)
Megan Boyle, Tao Lin · 1 critic vote
A chronicle of Tao Lin and Megan Boyle's relationship filmed through a Macbook camera.
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Lav Díaz · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
A young woman is held captive by her father and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, two men embark on a personal quest for buried treasure. However, both groups show signs of debilitating illness.
The Missing Picture (2013)
Rithy Panh · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015)
Kidlat Tahimik · 1 critic vote
Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and translator Enrique who most likely was the first to achieve the historic feat.
Letters from Panduranga (2016)
Thi Trinh Nguyen · 1 critic vote
In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the different ways its inhabitants remember history.
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Mouly Surya · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Fandor, OVID, AsianCrush
After encountering a group of bandits with plans to rape and steal from her, a young widow ventures into the wilderness in search of justice.
Nervous Translation (2017)
Shireen Seno · 1 critic vote
Eight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings of nervous people.
Shirkers (2018)
Sandi Tan · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
Sleepcinemahotel (2018)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 1 critic vote
For IFFR 2018 Apichatpong Weerasethakul turned a Rotterdam hall into a working hotel whose guests slept beside a round screen of never-repeating archive images of sleep, water and sky.
Crossroads (2022)
Mike De Leon · 1 critic vote
Borrowing a beloved song from his own 1984 feature Sister Stella L., Mike De Leon made this video in a damning response to the victory election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as president of the Philippines. In a prepared statement at the Cannes premiere of his recently restored Itim, he wrote, “Horror has now acquired a more sinister meaning. It is no longer about a ghost but about the monsters of Philippine politics, monsters that, after a long wait in the subterranean caverns of hell, have returned to ravage and rape my country all over again. The crazy thing is that we invited them back.”
Everything Will Be OK (2022)
Rithy Panh · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century.
When the Waves are Gone (2022)
Lav Diaz · 1 critic vote
One of the Philippines' top investigators, Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, faces a deep moral crossroads. As a firsthand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign conducted by his force, his anxiety and guilt triggers a severe skin disease, and his healing process is fraught by his dark past.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
Pham Thien An · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
