Asian Film Database
Gabriel's Trip (2011) |
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| 87min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Bashar Shbib (Syria) |
| Production Company: | Oneira Pictures |
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| Setting: | Canada, Egypt |
| Summary: | Gabriel's Trip is Bashar Shbib's final film dealing with the eccentric life of Gabriel Young, a middle-aged independent filmmaker. In the first installment of the trilogy (Hot Sauce), Gabriel (Bashar Shbib) must come to terms with his amnesia. In the second film (The Kiss), he must confront his paranoia. And in the third, Gabriel is diagnosed with acute schizophrenia and must adapt to his new condition. In seeking new beginnings, Gabriel returns to his native Egypt, only to go back to Quebec disillusioned. (www.oneira.com) |
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Gaysian (2013) |
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| 8min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Austin Wong (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Gaysian Productions |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Three men explore how everyone brings different prejudices into dating. (http://insideout.ca/torontofestival/film/gaysian) |
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General Idea - Artist Profile (1989) |
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| min. Documentary, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Toronto Arts Award Foundation |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Commissioned by the Toronto Arts Award Foundation to honour the internationally recognized collaborative General Idea. Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 26 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name. (midionodera.com) |
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The Gift (2002) |
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| 9min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | German |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Chandra Siddan Gargi (India) |
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| Setting: | Germany |
| Summary: | Annette loves her boyfriend but she has begun meeting an unpredictable, dangerous and possibly mad man who subjects her to degrading sexual abuse. Her last meeting with him left her bruised and bleeding. Why is she doing this? She does not know. She invites her sister over to help her reject this new person. But as she speaks what emerges is her fascination with degradation. She pushed through her fear and meets him again... This however is not seen as an illness but as a cure for an acquisitive and paranoid bourgeois society. Annette lives in an economy of the gift, of expenditure and ecstasy. What is being questioned is sterile notions of health and stinginess in the sexual economy, which is also a metaphor for capitalism. The Gift is an invitation to live generously. (Vtape) |
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Girlfriends (2013) |
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| 10min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Betty Xie |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Two girls meet for the first time to uncover the truth behind a case of mistaken infidelity. (www.xiebetty.com) |
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Girl Meets Boy (1999) |
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| 2min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Grace Lee (USA) |
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| Summary: | Girl meets boy, girl beats boy. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
A Girl Named Kai (2004) |
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9min. Uncategorized, Colour |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Kai Ling Xue (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Using Super-8 and 16mm footage, filmmaker Kai Ling Xue opens her personal diary to us to reveal a journey about relationships, self-discovery, passion, secrets and dreams. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Girls Night Out (1999) |
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| 24min. Short, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Jung Jae-eun (Korea) |
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| Summary: | The Twisted vagaries of teenhood unfold in this slice of life drama about a young woman yearning to be a photographer and her girlfriend who is having an affair with her cousin. A Rohmeresque take that ends up, like so many Eric Rohmer films, at a beachside resort with unsorted wishes and tentative resolutions. (Reel Asian) |
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Gluttony (2011) |
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| 2min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Japan) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Despite meticulous preparations and good intentions all round, when Stickgirl's parents visit, only a good old family gorge-out can fill the deafening silence that represents all that is never said. (Sleepy Dog Films) |
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The Goddess of 1967 (2000) |
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| 118min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ciara Law (Australia) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7WJplsyE48 |
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| Summary: | "Goddess" stands for French "Déesse", the nickname of Citroën DS, the name of a famous car designed in the fifties. A young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there's chaos all around: The seller as well as his wife lay dead in their house and a 17 year old girl lets him in and offers him something to eat. He walks out with horror but then comes back because he forgot to ask about the car... The girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5 day trip through the outback, and, at the same time, a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family's chronicle. (Clause Horn) |
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The Goddess Method (2002) |
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| 6min. Comedy, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Punam Sawhney |
| Production Company: | Moon Face Production |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Cultures collide when a young man's desire to become a dancer conflicts with his parent's career dreams for him. (IMDb) |
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The Golden Pin (2009) |
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| 15min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Cuong Ngo, (Vietnam) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Film |
| Awards: | Colin Campbell Award for Best Canadian Short, Toronto Inside Out Film Festival (2009) |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | A young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer finds himself struggling between the expectations of his family and the demands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon, but his mother, haunted by a past romance, hopes her son will stand up for what he believes. (Matt Guerin) |
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GOM (1994) |
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| 9min. Experimental, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Kirby Hsu |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Rice queens, muscle queens, bananas and other afflictions. GOM is a funny, funky, experimental take on what it is to be Asian and gay. (Vtape) |
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Good Luck Counting Sheep (1997) |
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| 4min. Uncategorized, Black and White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Khanhthuan Tran ( Vietnam) |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | It is 1998. Dolly the Sheep has been named the new mascot of the Celine Concert Series 98. With tickets to the concert sold out, fans have been unable to dry their eyes until today; Dolly the Sheep will be giving away three front row tickets! In a mashed-up animated comedy questioning repetition Dolly the Sheep is yesterday's hero (Vtape) |
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Good Night Sweet Charlatan (2013) |
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| 4min. Uncategorized | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | La Chunk by Lil Lohan (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Back-dropped by the controversy around Blurred Lines and the MTV Music Video Awards, Toronto-based moody synthesizer duo Depression Era treacherously take their stance on the use of TIYF. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Grand Design (2010) |
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| Video Art, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Midi Onodera (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Produced with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts |
| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Trailer |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Filmed in outdated super 8, The Grand Design is a glimpse into the reflections of a dying burlesque performer. Vintage black and white clips from stag films of the 1950s are juxtaposed against a muted Tuscan landscape, the home and final resting place of the unnamed woman. The film is an unapologetic look back at an unconventional life, lived to its fullest, in an almost forgotten moment of pop culture. (midionodera.com) |
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Great Expectations (1997) |
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| 1min. Animation, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Sound |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ann Marie Fleming (Canada) |
| Production Company: | Sleepy Dog Films |
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| Summary: | A frustrated artist, unable to put her ideas on paper, turns to an over-the-top daydream in which her filmmaking garners her fame, fortune, kudos, exotic vacations, social standing, ardent suitors and parental approval. (Moving Images) |
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Green Tea Ice Cream (2001) |
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| 15min. Drama, comedy, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Rita Puglisi (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Three grown Korean children reminisce at a memorial dinner for their father, who loved to make homemade ice cream, much to their collective chagrin. This film has a goofy, dopey humour that sneaks up on you after a while. Just like the real green tea ice cream, this film's subtle, cool and leaves a sweet lingering aftertaste. |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Gun Play (2000) |
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| min. Uncategorized, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Louise Noguchi (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | Excerpt |
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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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