61 Documentary Films & DVDs from & about

Including 8 NewAsia Releases and 20 Films on DVD for the first time! Bird’s Nest: Herzog & de Meuron in China A Film by Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm

Many events of the Beijing 2008 Chinese architects Ai Wei Wei and Olympic Games took place in the Yu Qiu Rong, plus additional commen - brand new, 100,000-seat National tary by cultural advisor Dr. Uli Sigg, the Stadium. Plans for this massive structure former Swiss Ambassador to China. began in 2003, when Swiss architects “Not only exciting architectural Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were insights, but also a view of the Chinese selected by the Chinese government to mood in times of rapid transition.” design the new stadium, which because of —NZZ its curved steel-net walls was soon dubbed 2008 SilverDocs by locals as the “bird’s nest.” Documentary Festival BIRD’S NEST chronicles this five-year effort, 2008 Cinema de as well as Herzog and de Meuron’s design Paris Festival for a new city district in Jinhua, involving 2008 Solothurner Filmtage, hotels, office and residential buildings. Switzerland Both projects involved complex and often 88 minutes | color | 2008 | Order #AS08-01 difficult negotiations and communications Sale/DVD: $440 between two cultures, two architectural Chapters: traditions and two political systems. 1. Researching Chinese Tradition 2. Conceiving the Design In addition to following the progress of 3. East-West Communication both projects, from initial design and 4. Crisis of Confidence groundbreaking, BIRD’S NEST features 5. Architectural Boom in China 6. Stadium as Public Sculpture interviews with Herzog and de Meuron, 7. Reflections on the Accomplishment

ICARUS FILMS 2 ICARUS FILMS A Decent Factory: Nokia in China Losers and Winners A Film by Thomas Balmès A Film by Ulrike Franke & Michael Loeken

Two cultures collide in this unusual In addition to the respective sensations of tale of globalization, which docu- loss and accomplishment, LOSERS AND ments the dismantling of a massive WINNERS reveals the disparity between feel- smelting complex in Germany, which has ings of national pride—the German workers been closed, for shipment to and reassembly contemplating retirement or the search for in China. new jobs, and the Chinese giddy with prospects of improvements in their personal Overseen by 30 German “shutdown lives sure to come with modernization. managers,” a community of 400 Chinese workers works sixty-hour weeks, under “Excellent… superb… Highly Recommended.” often danger ous conditions and pressures —Educational Media Reviews Online and perks from their Chinese managers, to “Has much to offer students of China, complete the disassembly as quickly as Germany, globalization, sociology, and possible. labor.”—Education about Asia LOSERS AND WINNERS chronicles the Best International Feature, 2007 entire process, featuring interviews with the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival When Nokia sends business ethics advisors The advisors’ final report to Nokia managers Germans, who must watch as their former to examine conditions at a factory in confronts the multinational corporation with workplace is broken down into moveable Film Critics Award, 2007 Chicago International Documentary sections, and the Chinese managers and Shenzhen, China, that supplies parts to the the dilemma now facing an increasing Festival Finnish electronics firm, they uncover number of Western firms who outsource low-paid workers, isolated from their homes shocking labor abuses. their labor to countries such as China—how and families. 96 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-03 Sale/DVD: $398 is it possible to balance the profit motive A DECENT FACTORY documents in fasci- Tensions quickly become evident between with a sense of social responsibility? nating detail the inspection of the plant. the Germans and Chinese over workplace During their tour the Nokia team investigates “An honest, brutal and sometimes humorous issues, especially the Germans’ concerns work and safety conditions, payroll records, look at the culture and climate surrounding about safety measures and environmental and potential environmental hazards. today’s business world as it collides with issues, and the Chinese indignation over Through interviews with factory managers as consumer desire for ethically-made prod- their hosts’ cultural condescension and well as some of the young Chinese female ucts.”—Chart Magazine vocal criticism of the lazy work habits of employees who work and live in “Globalization the “old foreigners.” dormitories on the site, they with an in - learn of poor labor/management human face. relations, substandard housing An excellent and meals, and violations of even documentary.” Chapters: the less stringent Chinese laws —Le Nouvel 1. Arrival on minimum wage and working Observateur 2. Culture Clash 3. Exemplary Workers conditions. 4. Dismantling 5. Thinking of Home Chapters: 6. Accidents 1. Nokia’s Ethical Supplies Assessment 2005 Midwest Conference 7. End of an Era? 2. Louise Jamison, Business Ethics on Asian Affairs Consultant 3. Visit to Supply Factory in China 79 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #AS08-02 4. Interview with Factory Managers Sale/DVD: $440 5. Interviews with Workers 6. Feedback for Factory Managers 7. The Report to Nokia

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 3 4 ICARUS FILMS The Men Who Would Conquer China Nanjing: Memory and Oblivion A Film by Nick Torrens & Jane St. Vincent Welch A Film by Michaël Prazan

Although the Nanjing Massacre, a as “the righteous,” including John Rabe, series of war crimes committed by Minnie Vautrin and John Magee, whose Japanese troops in China’s capital efforts saved many lives. Although featuring during the second Sino-Japanese War, contentious commentary by advocates for occurred seventy years ago, the nature and either side of the controversy, NANJING also extent of these atrocities remains the subject shows a Chinese and a Japanese history of continuing historical debate and the teacher who, unlike their government source of political tensions between China leaders, are working to construct a shared and Japan. memory of the events. During the military occupation, Japanese troops engaged in arson, rape, looting and executions of prisoners of war and civilians, including women and children. Debate continues to rage over the extent of the atroc- ities and the number of deaths, with some Japanese denying any atrocities took place, but credible estimates of non-combatant deaths range from 100,000 to 300,000. How do you buy state-owned Chinese considerable profit to multinational corpora- companies, support the country’s transition tions. As foreign investment in China rapidly “A remarkable documentary... to capitalism, and make a fortune at the approaches the $100 billion level, and social retraces with precision the same time? THE MEN WHO WOULD inequality and unemployment continue to unfolding of events... gives a CONQUER CHINA follows the efforts of rise, the film offers a revealing portrait of the frightening example of the New York investment banker Mart Bakal and vast social changes taking place. manipulation of history.” —Télérama his well-connected Hong Kong business “Highly Recommended! Engaging... wildly “Engrossing.. hopes to partner Vincent Lee as they join forces to informative and entertaining... a tremendous absorb this lapse in collective create the perfect mix of economic and polit- piece of work.”—Educational Media Reviews memory and bring the ical opportunity in China. Online people of China and Japan The film chronicles their efforts in New York, 2005 Chicago International closer together.” Beijing, Hong Kong and over a Documentary Festival —Chicago International three-year period. We join them as they 2005 Midwest Conference Documentary Festival engage in difficult negotiations with Chinese on Asian Affairs NANJING: MEMORY AND OBLIVION uses 2007 Chicago International government bureaucrats, tour Chinese facto- Sale/DVD: $440 archival footage and photos, interviews with Documentary Festival ries seeking Western investment, attend busi- 58 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #AS08-05 Chinese survivors and eyewitnesses, former 2006 International Festival of ness luncheons and official receptions, and Sale/DVD: $390 Japanese soldiers, and both Chinese and Audiovisual Programs become embroiled in their own disputes and Japanese government officials, historians and 53 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-06 arguments. Chapters: 1. Start lawyers, to document the events of “The Rape Sale/DVD: $390 The business scheme they succeed in 2. Mart Bakal: Emerging Markets Specialist & of Nanking” and to show how the interpreta- Chapters: 1. Core of the Conflict signing with the Chinese government Vincent Lee: Tung Tai Group tion of this history has become politicized. 3. The Partnership 2. Orders involves the purchase of failed state-owned 4. Lee’s Political Connections 3. Atrocities In addition to shocking accounts of atrocities 4. The Righteous companies, which Bakal and Lee plan to 5. Bank of China’s Bad Assets witnessed and committed, the film profiles 5. Denial restructure through improved management 6. Partnership Tensions 6. Renewed Nationalism 7. Northwest Securities: A New Trade Route those foreigners residing in Nanjing, known techniques, in order to then resell them at a 7. Shared Memory

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 5 6 ICARUS FILMS Old Men Now on Sunrise over Tianamen Square A Film by Lina Yang A Film by Shui-Bo Wang A National Film Board of Canada Production Chinese filmmaker Lina Yang spent two years documenting a group of elderly retirees, illus- Through a rich collage of original artwork, trating what occurs among men when their archival and family photographs, and anima- life’s work has ceased. Through the details of tion, Shui-Bo explores his past as a Red Guard their daily routine, we observe the physical during the , his stint in the and psychological aches that accompany old military as a propaganda poster artist, and his age, and we witness the solace that can be teaching experiences in the 1980s. found in tradition and companionship. Colliding icons of Mao and Coca-Cola, Thoughtful and introspective, OLD MEN is a Tiananmen Square and the Statue of Library moving meditation on what it means to grow evoke contradictory ideological symbols that old in today’s China. have haunted China for years. SUNRISE 1998 Academy Award Nominee, “Recommended.”—MC Journal, the Journal OVER TIANANMEN SQUARE is Shui-Bo’s 2001 Association for Best Documentary Short Subject of Academic Media Librarianship thoughtful attempts to sort through ideology Asian Studies Film Festival and arrive at his own truth. 29 minutes | color | 1998 | CC | Order #AS08-09 Award of Excellence, 2000 Yamagata 94 minutes | color | 1999 | Order #AS08-07 Sale/DVD: $225 ★★ ★★ Documentary Film Festival (Japan) Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! STARRED REVIEW “A striking blend Chapters: of autobiography, history and politics.” 1. Start —Booklist 2. The Cultural Revolution 3. Impressions of the West Try to Remember “A visually arresting and entertaining viewing 4. The A Film by Zhong Jian 5. The Red Army experience… Highly recommended.” 6. Deng Xiapeng’s Reforms In TRY TO REMEMBER, 22-year old Zhong to make a living. It also reveals other —Video Librarian 7. Tiananmen Square Massacre. Jian escorts his mother on a visit to the rural contemporary concerns, from China’s strictly Chinese village, Yantang, where she grew up. enforced birth policies to the environmental China Yellow, China Blue Now on Zhong films her as they walk around the degradation affecting the countryside. A Film by Ahmed Lallem village, pay a visit to his grandparents’ graves, and chat with relatives and other This two-part documentary villagers. Every place brings back fresh tells the history of China in memories. the 20th Century—entirely with original archives and Many of the stories Zhong’s mother motion pictures. tells involve the two subjects—hunger and Mao’s Cultural Revolution—that From the very first news- dominated her childhood. Her words reels and documentary pour out in a heartfelt cascade as she footage filmed in China at relates the misery of those days, and her the turn of the century, up childhood experiences as a Red Guard. until the present day, CHINA YELLOW, CHINA More than just a film of BLUE uses visual docu- historical reminiscence, Chapters: 2005 Yamagata International ments to portray the TRY TO REMEMBER 1. Start “Highly Recommended! Remarkable… Documentary Festival struggle and changeover between two also shows that the pace 2. The Cultural Revolution/ An excellent introduction to modern China.” Poverty 2005 Amsterdam International Chinas: one continental and rural, enshrined and quality of life in rural —Educational Media Reviews Online 3. Education Documentary Festival by the Empire and Confucianism, the other China has remained 4. Ancestors 90 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #AS08-08 coastal, urban and mercantile, and founded 2001 Association for unchanged, with its poor 5. Denouncing “Landlords” Asian Studies Film Festival 6. The Town Market Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! on maritime trade. farmers and illiterate 7. Credits 2 x 50 minutes | color-b&w | 1998 | Order #AS08-10 peasants still struggling Sale/DVD: was $490 now $440

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 7 8 ICARUS FILMS Swing in Beijing They Chose China A Film by Shui-Bo Wang A Film by Shui-Bo Wang A National Film Board of Canada Production

In January 1954, months after the end of the Korean War, U.S. soldiers held in POW camps were at last free to return home. A “A powerful impression of a varied, radical, small group, however, refused repatriation to and seemingly vibrant arts underground… a the U.S. and, after being given 90 days to surprising, provocative, and stimulating look reconsider their decision, 21 American at this potentially influential subculture.” soldiers decided to stay in China. In THEY —Professor Patrick Dowdey, Wesleyan University, Curator of the Mansfield Freeman CHOSE CHINA, Academy Award-nominated Center for East Asian Studies, for Asian Chinese filmmaker Shui-Bo Wang tells the “Illuminates on many levels… Wang unearths Educational Media Service ‘News and controversial story of these forgotten rare and fascinating footage that reveals a Reviews’ American dissidents. different story of individuals who, out of loathing for McCarthy’s America, chose a “A wonderful present-day look at the limits of Using rare archival footage, excerpts from A comprehensive survey of creative life in people they viewed as peace loving and who artistic freedom in China.” American and Chinese TV programs, and contemporary Beijing, SWING IN BEIJING repaid their admira- —Ballast Quarterly Review period and contemporary interviews, THEY tion until the tide captures a remarkable impression of the Chapters: CHOSE CHINA chronicles the fascinating turned with the current state of fine and performing arts in 2002 Association for 1. Introduction Asian Studies Film Festival history of this group of young Americans Cultural Revolution.” 2. January 23, 1954 this rapidly changing city. Academy Award Editor’s Choice, who were hailed in China as “peace fighters” —United Nations 3. McCarthy & nominee Shui-Bo Wang has incorporated Giant Robot Magazine and denounced in America as “turncoats” Association The Red Menace interviews with artists, filmmakers, and musi- 4. POW Camps and “traitors.” U.S. media claimed that these (Stanford University) cians—including rock musician Gao Xing, 73 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-11 5. Choosing China Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! young POW’s had been “brainwashed” by 6. Returning to the U.S. painter Wei Dong, commercial artist Zhan Jury Prize, 2006 the Chinese communists. The film shows Black Maria Film 7. Epilogue Wang, filmmaker Jia Zhangke, and theater conditions inside these Chinese camps, Festival director Men Jeng Hui—along with clips of featuring never-before-seen footage, plus Golden Gate Award, 2006 films, plays and music videos, paintings and contemporary interviews with some of the San Francisco Film Festival other artwork in galleries and studios, and camps’ Chinese translators, instructors, 52 minutes | color | 2005 | CC | Order #AS08-13 revealing footage of a city in transition. lecturers, and officers. Sale/DVD: $390

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 9 10 ICARUS FILMS Umbrella A Film by Du Haibin

“Fascinating, if brutally depressing. It paints a decidedly different picture than the Chinese government would want you to believe.” —Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid “In creating a vast societal portrait through his focus on umbrellas, Du pulls off the rare feat of capturing the ephemeral.” —Jennique Mason, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Honorable Mention, 2008 Cinéma du réel International Documentary Film Festival The program of economic reforms Province, where they engage in monotonous, 2007 Hong Kong initiated in China in 1978 by Deng endlessly and rapidly repeated routines to Asian Film Festival Xiaoping aimed to finance the manufacture umbrellas, for which they are 2008 San Francisco modernization of the nation. But what paid a meager piece rate. At a massive shop- International Film Festival Communist Party leaders called “Socialism ping mall, the “World’s Largest Small 2007 Amsterdam International with Chinese characteristics” looked suspi- Commodity Market,” in Yiwu, Zhejiang Documentary Film Festival ciously to many as a return to capitalism. Province, those multicolored, multipatterned 2007 Venice International Today, some three decades later, the results umbrellas are sold at much higher prices by Film Festival of those sweeping economic reforms have wholesale merchants, who are among “Habin offers an intensely personal close-up 93 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-14 become plainly visible in a country increas- China’s nouveaux riche. of his subjects and their struggles, observing Sale/DVD: $440 ingly divided between its rural and urban The film also shows throngs of young people their daily routines, their moments of weak- sectors. filling out applications at a job fair in ness, their camaraderie and their isolation. Filmed in five different regions of China, Shanghai or undergoing physical drills and Eschewing any interviews, with the exception UMBRELLA provides a telling look at the vast ideological regimentation at a provincial of an aging farmer’s heartbreaking mono- changes that have taken place in Chinese garrison of the People’s Liberation Army. logue in the closing scene, UMBREALLA society, including a massive migration from Finally, on a farm in Luoyang, Henan employs a startling voyeur’s perspective from the countryside to the cities, the rise of a Province, we watch a group of elderly farmers which to observe lives physically distant from prosperous new class of businesspeople, struggle to salvage a premature harvest of our own but perhaps not so far removed millions of new college graduates competing drought-impacted wheat. from the experience of our own heartland.” —Deanna Quinones, San Francisco for a shrinking number of jobs, and the UMBRELLA makes sadly apparent the old International Film Festival Program neglect of China’s largest population group, adage about “the rich becoming richer and Chapters: its rural peasants. “Invites us on a silent but capturing and eye- the poor becoming poorer,” with China’s 1. Umbrella Factory opening visit to the other end of the Chinese 2. Wholesale Market Filmed in a purely observational style, with peasant farmers, who are struggling to survive assembly lines… Using the umbrellas as a 3. Higher Education no narration or commentary, UMBRELLA amidst the combined forces of globalization ‘guide,’ the film takes us to all corners of the 4. The Army shows the workaday life of young employees and the new Chinese economy, bearing the 5. Farmers new Chinese reality.”—CPH:DOX International 6. End Credits in a factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong brunt of the country’s growing pains. Documentary Film Festival Program

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 11 12 ICARUS FILMS Heart of the Country Now on Japan’s Peace Constitution A Film by Leonard Kamerling A Film by John Junkerman Education Advisor William Parrett “A polished production… attractive, articulate, on topic.” —Richard H. Minear, Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews “The quality of the inter- views… is the strength of this film… should serve well as a discussion tool and will be of value to those interested in modern East Asian poli- tics and history, in peace and war issues, and Japanese society… recommended.” In 2005, sixty years after —Educational Media the end of World War II, a Reviews Online conservative Japanese “Evokes courage and government is pressing provokes thought. It “A gem… The visual impact, the characters, ahead with plans to revise HEART OF THE COUNTRY is the story of should be seen by all the calm pace and cumulative experience of the nation’s constitution Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal generations.” the children, the school and teachers, and jettison its famous of a rural elementary school in Kanayama, —Okinawa Times central Hokkaido, Japan. Yasutomo is a man Yasutomo and the community are terrific.” no-war clause, Article 9. —Merry White, Professor of Education, “Powerful.”—Professor Peter Frost, driven by his vision for learning and his This timely, hard-hitting documentary places Boston University, author of The Japanese Williams College, for Education About Asia passion for educating the heart as well as the the ongoing debate over the constitution in Educational Challenge “The interviews are intensely interesting and mind. The film follows Yasutomo, his an international context: What will revision teachers and staff, students and their families “Shows the school as an institution that beautifully photographed. It is a simply mean to Japan’s neighbors, Korea and superb presentation on a truly important over the course of one entire school year. reflects the assumptions and structures of China? How has the U.S.-Japan military Japanese society. It is, in itself, a model of subject.”—Chalmers Johnson, President, Beyond intimate observation of everyday life, alliance warped the constitution and Japan’s how one might inquire into the myriad Japan Policy Institute from morning gymnastics to the graduating role in the world? How is the unprecedented connections of a school with its community… 2006 Association for ceremony, HEART OF THE COUNTRY takes involvement of Japan’s Self-Defense Force in an excellent antidote for a narrow educational Asian Studies Film Festival the occupation of Iraq perceived in the viewers into the world of Japanese values, interest in Japanese children’s high rates of Best Documentary, 2005 Middle East? revealing how the school, the family and the academic achievement.” Kinema Jumpo Awards community are bound together in a self- —John Singleton, Asian Educational Media Through interviews conducted with leading Best Documentary, 2005 perpetuating relationship based upon obliga- Service News and Reviews thinkers around the world, the film explores Japan Film PEN Club Awards tion, mutual responsibility and trust. Award of Commendation, 2001 the origins of the Constitution in the ashes 70 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #AS08-17 Society for Visual Anthropology of war, and the significance of its peace Sale/DVD: $348 Chapters: Golden Apple Award, 1998 National clauses in the conflicted times of the early 1. Prologue Educational Media Network Competition 21st century. 2. Origins of the Constitution 2000 Association for 3. No-War Clause, Article 9 4. U.S./Japan Alliance Asian Studies Film Festival 5. Japan in Iraq 58 minutes | color | 1997 | Order #AS08-15 6. China & Korea 7. Future of the Constitution Sale/DVD: $390

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 13 14 ICARUS FILMS Kochuu—Japanese Architecture, Influence & Origin No More Hiroshima! Now on A Film by Jesper Wachtmeister A Film by Martin Duckworth A National Film Board of Canada Production KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about 2006 Association for modern Japanese architecture, its roots in Asian Studies Film Festival “[A] wonderful film... Strongly recommended the Japanese tradition, and its impact on 53 minutes | color | 2003 | Order #AS08-18 for junior high through adult audiences.” the Nordic building tradition. The film Sale/DVD: $390 —Michael J. Moran, Library Journal explains how contemporary Japanese archi- “Strongly recommended for all programs hat tects strive to unite the ways of modern man strive to bring current generations to the with the old philosophies in astounding resolution (carved in stone on the memorial constructions. to the victims of that first atomic blast) that ‘The error will not be repeated.’ All libraries.” The film illustrates key components of —C. Ebenreck, Choice traditional Japanese architecture, such as reducing the distinction between “The hibakushas’ message should by heard Chapters: Like ghosts from the past they have come outdoors and indoors, disrupting the 1. Prologue by everyone.”—Dr. Helen Caldicott, National symmetrical, building with wooden 2. “In the Jar”: forth to testify to their suffering and to warn President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Interior vs. Exterior humanity. They are the “hibakusha” of posts and beams rather than with Special Jury Prize Winner, 3. Buddhism, Hiroshima, the survivors of the first nuclear walls, modular construction tech- Christianity & Nature 27th Competition for Films on Japan attack. niques, and its symbiotic relationship 4. Light 1985 Genie Award Winner, 5. Modules & Capsules Best Canadian Documentary with water, light and nature. 6. Walls, or Not The film takes us to Japan where two Finalist, 1984 “A gentle, beautiful film.”—The Age 7. Credits Hibakusha, Mrs. Tominaga and Mr. Murata, are introduced as they prepare to leave for a American Film Festival mass peace demonstration to be held in 26 minutes | color | 1984 | Order #AS08-20 Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies New York coincidentally with the United Sale/DVD: was $280 now $248! A Film by Michel Quinejure Nations’ Second Special Session on The award-winning Japanese architect Disarmament. Shigeru Ban is noted for his use of inexpen- Unlike other films on the survivors, NO sive construction materials such as paper- MORE HIROSHIMA contains few images board and cardboard tubes. While his of those killed or maimed. Rather, designs for DIY prefab housing have been this documentary reveals the adopted by the UN High Commission for mental anguish of the Refugees to house earthquake victims in hibakusha, and their deep Turkey and Rwanda, Ban has also used these rooted fear that world lightweight but sturdy and inexpensive mate- leaders will ignore their rials to create breathtakingly beautiful homes, warnings and subject pavilions and Chapters: future generations to the churches. SHIGERU 1. Start horrors of nuclear war. BAN features exten- 2. Emergency Housing: Istanbul, Turkey sive interviews with 3. Japanese Pavilion at this young architect EXPO 2000 – (b. 1957), who Hanover, Germany 4. Paper Dome – Gero, Japan explains the prac- 5. Paper, Shadow & Light tical, philosophical 6. Kobe, Japan and esthetic aspects 7. 9 Square Grids House – Hadano, Japan of his work.

53 minutes | color | 2006 | Order #AS08-19 Sale/DVD: $390

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 15 16 ICARUS FILMS Senso Daughters Red Persimmons A Film by Noriko Sekiguchi A Film by Shinsuke Ogawa & Peng Xiaolian

SENSO DAUGHTERS investigates an unacknowledged tragedy of “Recommended! Thoughtfully Japan’s “Forgotten War” in Papua conceived and beautifully New Guinea: the army’s mistreatment of filmed... It not only offers New Guinean women and “comfort girls,” facts about persimmon military prostitutes conscripted believing they growing, but insights into the would clean and cook. Since women, inner workings of traditional excepting nurses, had Japanese rural life.” no official military —Educational Media Reviews Online status, 90,000 comfort “★★★★[4 out of 4 stars]! girls were shipped to Highly Recommended!” battle sites as “military —Video Rating Guide for Libraries commodities,” without “Unforgettable!... these memories names or identities. become the stuff of history.” As the women discuss —David D. Buck, Editor, The ostensible subject of this film is the their experiences, and Journal of Asian Studies growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Japanese who were there make startling Best of Category, 1991 denials, SENSO DAUGHTERS exposes not San Francisco Film Festival Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it only a shameful episode in Japan’s past, but is the perfect combination of earth, wind and 54 minutes | color | 1989 | Order #AS08-21 rain that makes their village’s persimmons also indicts the culture which fostered it. Sale/DVD: $390 superior to those grown anywhere else. The Now on film’s larger subject, however, is the disap- “Wonderful! Reveals Japanese modernity as a When Mrs. Hegarty Comes to Japan pearance of Japan’s traditional culture, the process of agricultural transformation. Rich A Film by Noriko Sekiguchi end of a centuries-old way of life. and complex... Marvelous!” —Visual Anthropology Review In 1981, Noriko Sekiguchi (SENSO DAUGH- Begun by the Japanese director Shinsuke TERS) went to Australia to study International Ogawa in the late 1980s, RED PERSIM- “Elegant as a print by Hokusai… a moving Relations. She spoke little English, but MONS was completed after his death by his revelation of a microcosm soon to vanish.” quickly befriended Joyce and Jack Hegarty, Chinese disciple, Xiaolian Peng. In addition —The Village Voice who became her “second parents.” to elegant depictions of the manufacturing 2005 Association for While close, Noriko sensed in Jack a buried process, the film features fascinating Asian Studies Film Festival resentment towards her, perhaps due to his portraits of the people who invent and make 2001 Yamagata Documentary experience fighting Japanese in World War II. the various tools and implements used in Film Festival (Japan) In 1991, three years after her husband had persimmon agriculture, as well as the 90 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #AS08-23 died, Joyce expressed a desire to visit Japan. colorful spiel of the old men and women who Sale/DVD: $440 The natural parents of her “adopted Japanese run the persimmon trade. “Offers unique insight into Japanese Chapters: daughter” agreed to host Mrs. Hegarty in culture.”—Teaching Tolerance Apart from its fascinating record of a 1. Start their Yokohama home for three weeks. vanishing way of life and its colorful anec- 2. Why Record Village Life? 1994 Association for 3. The Harvest: Picking, WHEN MRS HEGARTY COMES TO JAPAN Asian Studies Film Festival dotes about human inventiveness, however, Peeling & Drying RED PERSIMMONS is a film of stunning 4. Technological Innovation is a penetrating examination of cross cultural 58 minutes | color | 1992 | Order #AS08-22 existence and exchange. Filled with quirky visual beauty. Its scenes of time-lapse 5. The Ideal Climate, Light & Soil Sale/DVD: $390 6. Legends & Origins juxtapositions, generational gaps, and photography, whether revealing the gorgeous 7. The Last Blacksmith diverse outlooks on life, the film is Noriko’s deep red-orange colors of the fruit in full 8. Preparing for Market search for her own identity, shaped by two blossom or drying after having been peeled, 9. The Persimmon Dealers 10. Epilogue: 15 Years Later worlds. bathe the screen in radiant beauty.

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 17 18 ICARUS FILMS A Visit to Ogawa Productions Now on The Written Face A Film by Oshige Jun’ ichiro A Film by Daniel Schmid Featuring Tamasaburo Bando

In 1981 ‘New Wave” Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima traveled to the Yamagata countryside to visit the documentary film- In Japanese theater women’s roles are tradi- making collective led by Shinsuke Ogawa tionally played by men. The man playing the (1935-1992), who was then in the midst of woman’s role, the Onnagata, does not filming A Japanese Village—Furuyashikimura, imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries a feature-length documentary chronicling the to capture her significance. He need not stick seasonal cycle of rice growing. close to his model, but draws far more from his own identity—a shift of value takes place, Ogawa, who produced Summer in Narita A VISIT TO OGAWA PRODUCTIONS thus which is nonetheless not a step beyond. (1968), Peasants of the Second Fortress offers a rare insight into the social and cine- THE WRITTEN FACE is an attempt to offer (1971), and Red Persimmons (2004), gives matic philosophy of one of Japan’s best- “A visual delight! A poetic meditation on an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Oshima a brief tour of their rural location, known documentary film collectives. femininity as seen through the world of including the rice fields they are cultivating as Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders Japanese performing arts.... THE WRITTEN well as filming, and introductions to local “Recommended! The philosophical discus- of this ancient and disappearing performing FACE is sure to provoke discussion on many villagers. They then settle down for a wide- sions are frequently compelling, and both tradition. levels.”—Education about Asia Ogawa and Oshima are likeable. Ogawa’s ranging conversation about Ogawa enthusiasm for filmmaking is infectious and THE WRITTEN FACE reverberates in an echo “Stunning… a gentle, moving, illuminating Productions’ approach to documentary film- his commitment inspiring.” chamber of signs, where the alteration of a film… makes us feel as well as think… some making—that of self-styled “film nomads” —Educational Media Reviews Online face also implies a shift of value. It seeks to of its footage is priceless.” who live and work for extended periods of show these shifts of value and cracks in the —Samuel L. Leiter, Asian Theatre Journal time in various regions of the country- 2005 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival mask, in the written face, to reveal some 2001 Association for focusing in particular on their current significant images of the kabuki world, and to Asian Studies Film Festival production, which involves an intimate inter- 2004 Hong Kong International Film Festival allow us to experience this world, however 89 minutes | color | 1995 | Order #AS08-25 action over a period of several years with partially. Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! local farmers, weather conditions, the envi- 62 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #AS08-24 ronment, and aspects of village life. Sale/DVD: $390

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 19 20 ICARUS FILMS Pyongyang Diaries Now on Back to the Soil A Film by Solrun Hoaas A Film by Kwon Woo-jung

PYONGYANG DIARIES is director Solrun Hoaas’ personal account of her encounter with the closed society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The film begins with the death of revered leader Kim Il Sung. Hoaas records the events memorializing his life and his victory over the thirty-five year colonial rule by the Japanese, which ended in 1945. From there she looks at the role of the arts in easing the transition period from Kim Il Sung’s government to that of his son Kim 1999 Association for Jong Il, and in bolstering confidence during Asian Studies Film Festival difficult times in general. 52 minutes | color | 1998 | Order #AS08-26 “Rare and unusual... a much needed counter- Sale/DVD: $390 balance to the available print and film resources on Korea.” —Asian Educational Media Service’s News and Reviews In 1998 Lee Geun Hyuk left the city, along Now on with his wife and infant daughter, for Korea’s Where Is Grandma Zheng’s Homeland? South Chungcheong Province to begin a new A Film by Zhong-yi Ban life in farming. Lee harbored no romantic illu- During WWII thousands of Korean and sions about becoming a farmer, since he had Chinese women were taken from their been born and raised in a farming family, but villages and forced to serve Japanese he believed strongly in the importance of servicemen as “comfort women.” One such traditional agriculture. woman was Zheng Shunyi, who at the age of To produce BACK TO THE SOIL, documen- 17 was tricked into leaving her town in Korea 2005 Yamagata International tary filmmaker Kwon spent a year living with Documentary Film Festival and taken to Province in China. and filming the Lee family, chronicling with 2005 Green Film Festival Left homeless on the streets of Hankou remarkable intimacy their numerous difficul- (Korea) Town in Hunan after the war, she was forced ties—such as harvesting on a trial-and-error 2004 Seoul Independent to beg for food from neighbors. Eventually basis, Lee’s role in leading militant rallies Film Festival against the expansion of the Free Trade she met Wang Lichao, a soldier of the 85 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #AS08-28 Kuomintang. They soon married and built a Agreement, and the emotional impact of Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! family together. But she never forgot Korea. their young daughter’s heart operation and the illness and death of Lee’s father. Fifty-four years later, the 70-year-old Zheng BACK TO THE SOIL thus functions as both Chapters: returned to her hometown in Korea. But was 1. Start she going home? 2001 Association for an emotionally engaging portrait of the young 2. Back to the Farm Asian Studies Film Festival couple’s challenges in starting a new life as 3. Work, Protest, Live, Together “Recommended for academic areas in 2000 Taiwan International well as a revealing depiction of a rapidly 4. Life on the Farm Women’s Studies, World War II History and Documentary Film Festival changing agricultural system that threatens 5. The Harvest Asian Studies.” 6. Farm on the Street, Protests 89 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-27 to destroy traditional farming methods. 7. Epilogue —Educational Media Reviews Online Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398!

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 21 22 ICARUS FILMS The Wild East–Poitrait of an Urban Nomad From Courtyard House to Block Apartment A Film by Michael Haslund-Christensen A Film by Wynette Yao

FROM COURTYARD HOUSE TO BLOCK “An illuminating glimpse of Chinese architec- APARTMENT looks at the abrupt transition ture and culture, as well as the flexibility of its from traditional to modern housing on people.”—Booklist Taiwan, home to 19 million Chinese. 1987 Asian American Video Festival The courtyard house is giving way to Western style block apartments as the rapid industri- 23 minutes | color | 1987 | Order #AS08-30 alization of the last two decades has Sale/DVD: $220 disrupted traditional patterns of living and housing. FROM COURTYARD HOUSE TO BLOCK APARTMENT examines the reasons for these changes and how the Chinese have adjusted to new patterns of form and space.

As THE WILD EAST follows Jenya and Sasha through a series of hopeless financial ventures as middlemen, it becomes clear HHH—A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien Now on that their hopes and dreams not so different A Film by Olivier Assayas from young people everywhere. Taiwanese identity is posed. “Visually stunning! An understated but Hou’s films, such as A Time to powerful film that captures something of the Live and a Time to Die (1985) tension between the vivid dreams and dreary realities of young people in so many parts of and The Puppetmaster (1993), THE WILD EAST is an ethnographic the ‘non-industrial world.’” are inseparably linked with the rendering of contemporary life in Ulan Bator, —Visual Anthropology recent history of Taiwan, and to his own evolution. a city at the crossroads of tradition and “Excellent!... illustrates contemporary prob- modernity, communism and global capi- lems of economic and cultural change.” Examining the questions of talism. Through the daily struggles of two —Anthropology Review Database identity and “native land,” Hou young men, Jenya and Sasha, the film reveals Hsiao-hsien returns to the 2005 Midwest Conference a Mongolia beyond the stereotypes of wild on Asian Affairs setting of his youth to talk to horses and wandering nomads. The acclaimed filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien 2004 Jean Rouch Award Winner, childhood friends and discuss his films with has been called “the figure of the decade” by With huge sections of the rural population American Anthropological Association French filmmaker Olivier Assayas. critics such as J. Hoberman and Amy Taubin, migrating, the population of the city has 2004 Association for “Highly recommended.” and is considered by many to be the greatest exploded. During the summers Jenya and Asian Studies Film Festival —Educational Media Reviews Online Taiwanese filmmaker of all time. Or does he Sasha find work helping foreign development 54 minutes | color | 2002 | Order #AS08-29 consider himself a “Chinese” filmmaker? 2003 Association for workers with the red tape of the impenetrable Sale/DVD: $390 Asian Studies Film Festival Mongolian bureaucracy, but in the winter Hou Hsiao-hsien’s generation was born in 91 minutes | color | 1996 | Order #AS08-31 jobs are few and far between. They try Taiwan, or at a young age immigrated there, Sale/DVD: $440 anything, from reselling mobile phones with after the liberalization of the government dubious origins, to selling intestines to following the 1975 death of Chiang Kai-shek. sausage makers. It is to this generation that the question of a

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 23 24 ICARUS FILMS Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined A Film by Luc Schaedler A Film by Suman Ghosh

The film is framed by a conversation between Sen and Professor Kaushik Basu, Sen’s student and fellow economist, and is inter- spersed with commentary from other Nobel Laureates, renowned scholars, and politi- cians who have a close understanding of Sen’s life and work. “A remarkable documentary… a profound and outstanding text of historical and interdisci- plinary merit.”—Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences AMARTYA SEN: A LIFE REEXAMINED and Technology surveys the life and work of Amartya Sen, the “Highly Recommended!” 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Master —Educational Media Reviews Online of Trinity College at Cambridge, and Professor of Population and International 2004 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival Health at Harvard, Sen’s research has ranged over a number of fields in economics and 56 minutes | color | 2003 | Order #AS08-34 Gendun In addition to rare archival footage, philosophy. Sale/DVD: $390 Choephel Choephel’s paintings and sketches, and (1903-1951) is contemporary scenes of many of the sites he a legendary visited, the documentary features interviews figure in Tibet, with Tibetan historians, scholars, writers, Division of Hearts not simply poets, a travel companion, a contempora- A Film by Satti Khanna & Peter Chappell because he was neous British diplomat, and Choephel’s wife. believed to be Their commentary and reminiscences chron- The 1947 British subdi- the reincarna- icle the major phases of Choephel’s life, vision of colonial India tion of a including his monastery education in Lhasa, into Pakistan and the famous his journey across Tibet, his journey independent Indian nation caused Buddhist lama but also because this prom- throughout India, and his return to Tibet. the loss of 500,000 lives and the ising young monk eventually turned his back relocation of millions—one of the “This absorbing Chapters: most extensive movement of on monastic life and became a fierce critic of film offers a very 1. Introduction/Gendun peoples ever. After centuries of his country’s religious conservatism, cultural useful perspective Choephel’s Origins coexistence, Hindus, Sikhs, and isolationism and reactionary government. on recent Tibetan 2. Education at Drepung Muslims became victims of history.” Monastery, Lhasa ANGRY MONK provides both a personal and 3. Rejecting Tradition mutual suspicion as violence —The Vancouver Sun political portrait of this pioneering and 4. Travels in Tibet and swept through the countryside. visionary intellectual who was also a smoking, 2006 Sundance India with Rahul Sankrityayan drinking and sexually active man who Film Festival In DIVISION OF HEARTS ordinary people “Poignant... an interesting video well worth 5. Postcolonial Conflicts viewing by South Asian scholars and renounced the “false duty of monastic obliga- 2006 Melbourne & Revolution from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh — cart tions.” The film traces the biography and International 6. A Political History of drivers, laborers, trades people, farmers — students.”—Choice Film Festival Tibet & Persecution historic times of Choephel, who lived between tell this history and recount their own tumul- 57 minutes | color | 1987 | Order #AS08-35 2006 Thessaloniki 7. Gendun Choephel’s tuous experiences. Their memories, the British colonial invasion of 1903 and the Final Days Sale/DVD: $390 Documentary combined with archival news film, bear occupation by the Chinese army in 1951. Festival witness to the traumatic birth of two inde- 97 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #AS08-32 pendent nations. Sale/DVD: $440

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 25 26 ICARUS FILMS DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy I for India A Film by Aradhana Seth A Film by Sandhya Suri

I FOR INDIA is a chronicle of immi- “One of the richest Chapters: gration in Britain, from the Sixties documentaries of the 1. East and West to the present day, as seen through year.”—Aaron Hillis, 2. Staying in Touch the eyes of one Asian family and their movie The Village Voice 3. The Dark Million 4. The End of the Line camera. “A movie that’s both 5. Return to India In 1965 Yash Pal Suri, a young doctor, left deeply personal and 6. Back in England surprisingly universal.” 7. The Diaspora India for the U.K. with hopes of improving Continues his family’s life. The first thing he did upon —Jeanette Catsoulis, arriving in England was to buy two Super The New York Times 8mm cameras, two projectors and two reel- Official Selection, to-reel tape recorders. He sent one of each to 2006 Sundance Film Festival his family in India, and kept the others for 2006 Indo-American Arts Council himself. Film Festival Over the next forty years, through regular mailings of his films and tapes, he shared DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy’s “A moving, vividly potent film about the his new life abroad controversial campaign against the Narmada destructive effects of corporate greed and with family dam project in India, which will displace up unchecked globalization, as well as the story members back to a million people. The author of The God of of one woman’s bold, admirable decision to home, providing a Small Things, which won the prestigious place the needs of her country above her unique record of own... Highly Recommended!” Booker Prize in 1998, Roy has also published the eccentrici- —Video Librarian The Cost of Living, a book of two essays crit- ties—and occa- ical of India’s massive dam and irrigation “Highly Recommended! The ideas presented sional racism—of projects, as well as India’s successful detona- in the film provide ample ground for discus- his new English tion of a nuclear bomb. In her most recent sion and contemplation.” hosts. Back in book Power Politics, Roy challenges the idea —Educational Media Reviews Online India, his relatives, that only experts can speak out on such 2004 American Sociological in turn, responded urgent matters as nuclear war, the privatiza- Association Film Festival with their own tion of India’s power supply by Enron and 2004 Association for “cine-letters,” sending tales of weddings, issues like the Narmada dam project. Asian Studies Film Festival festivals and village life, along with impas- DAM/AGE shows how Roy, despite the 50 minutes | color | 2002 | CC | Order #AS08-36 sioned pleas for his return. Sale/DVD: $390 threat of imprisonment, chose to use her In addition to home movies, I FOR INDIA fame to stand up to powerful interests uses archival and contemporary footage and supported by multinational corporations and Chapters: excerpts from BBC TV programs, which chart the Indian government. In a clear and acces- 1. Start / Introduction the changing national mood about immigra- sible manner, the film weaves together a 2. The Court Case Against Roy 3. The Narmada tion over the decades, from bemusement at number of issues that lie at the heart of poli- Development Project the strange customs of the South Asian tics today: from the consequences of devel- 4. The Displaced newcomers, to fears of British culture being opment and globalization to the urgent need 5. The Free Market 70 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-37 6. The Artist’s Weapons “swamped,” to right-wing protests Sale/DVD: $398 for state accountability and the freedom of 7. The Court’s Decision demanding the expulsion of “colored” speech. immigrants. Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 27 28 ICARUS FILMS The La$t Market Litigating Disaster A Film by Shuchen Tan A Film by Ilan Ziv

About midnight on December 3, 1984, huge LITIGATING DISASTER also features a young amounts of toxic gas leaked from the Union Indian-American lawyer who has brought a Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, case on behalf of the victims before the resulting in the biggest and deadliest chem- Federal District Court in New York, showing ical disaster of all time. Today, hundreds of that nearly a quarter of a century after the thousands of people still suffer. Drinking disaster, the struggle to hold Union Carbide water for at least sixteen nearby communities accountable continues. remains severely polluted, while, to date, no “Highly Recommended!... raises a series of court of law anywhere in the world has ever important questions.” held Union Carbide or any of its officers —Educational Media Reviews Online responsible for what happened that night. 2005 Association for LITIGATING DISASTER explores how Union Asian Studies Film Festival Carbide successfully manipulated both the 52 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #AS08-39 U.S. and the Indian legal systems against Sale/DVD: $390 each other, to avoid having to defend its record in the Bhopal plant in court. In addi- Chapters: 1. Start THE LA$T MARKET focuses on the Dutch tion to documenting the actual disaster itself, 2. Bhopal, Dec 3, 1984 multinational corporation, Philips, and its the film features interviews with the Indian 3. Union Carbide’s Stake: Parental Responsibility efforts to develop one of the world’s largest former assistant manager of the plant, Indian 4. Bringing the Dynamite into the Center of Town 5. Reckless Indifference emerging markets in India with new prod- journalists, survivors and eyewitnesses, the 6. Union Carbide’s Strategy ucts, including an inexpensive woodstove head of a local health clinic for gas victims, 7. A Toxic Legacy and a battery-charged lamp. The Philips and shows mass public protests. 8. Fugitive From Justice strategy is illustrated through scenes of its 9. Playing One Legal System Against the Other Most of the world’s companies 10. Epilogue market their products to the richest sales representatives in the field and NGOs part of the world’s population. Since enlisted in their marketing outreach, plus these consumers represent a declining share interviews with the CEO and Marketing of the marketplace, many multinational Manager of Philips India and purchasers and corporations have begun to target the potential customers for the new products. world’s poor, those with less than $1500 The film explores the pros and cons of strate- annual disposable income, some five billion gies to market to the poor, questioning consumers who comprise the bottom of the whether it is truly possible for corporations economic pyramid. such as Philips to revamp capitalism so that Featuring an interview with C.K. Prahalad, it works for everyone. Professor of Corporate Strategy at the 2007 International Documentary University of Michigan and author of the Film Festival Amsterdam global best-seller, The Fortune at the Bottom 48 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-38 of the Pyramid, THE LA$T MARKET explains Sale/DVD: $375 how the world’s poor, who collectively have Chapters: enormous buying power, represent an 1. New Economic Models untapped engine of global economic growth. 2. Philips in India 3. Bottom of the Pyramid By developing new business models, corpo- 4. Sales Reps rations can democratize commerce, not only 5. Customers & Co-Ops reaching underserved markets but also 6. Distribution 7. Doing Good & Doing Well helping millions to escape poverty.

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 29 30 ICARUS FILMS Still, the Children Are Here The Films of Anand Patwardhan A Film by Dinaz Stafford Anand Patwardhan is an award-winning filmmaker who has been making political documentaries Produced by Mira Nair for nearly three decades. He has relentlessly pursued diverse and controversial issues that are STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE portrays at the crux of the social and political life of contemporary India. an indigenous society that has maintained its culture in isolation from a rapidly urbanizing and westernizing India. For many of the Garos of Meghalaya in North East India, cultivating rice is a way of life and worship. In the West Garo Hills, villagers still grow a diversity of ancient strains of hill rice in the same manner as humanity first did 6,000 Now on Now on “Highly Chapters: In the Name of God Father, Son and Holy War years ago. Recommended!... an 1. Start Examines the motivations of Hindu In examining the religious persecution engrossing portrait... 2. The Future of Rice fundamentalists who are appealing to the of minorities, FATHER, SON AND HOLY Shot over the course of an entire growing 3. Gender, Property, cycle, from the preparation of the fields to Excellent!” & Work 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a WAR explores how the psychology of the harvest, STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE —Educational Media 4. Christianity & Hindu nation. violence against “the other” may lay in male HERE is an elegant meditation on a way of Reviews Online Traditional Beliefs insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the 5. Harvest & Mothers 90 minutes | color | 1992 | Order #AS08-46 life that to outsiders seems simple and 2005 Association Wisdom Sale/DVD: $490 very construction of “manhood.” for Asian Studies Now on peaceful, but is fraught with the same exis- 6. Epilogue / Credits 120 minutes | color | 1994 | Order #AS08-47 Film Festival tential questions that plague us all. War and Peace Sale/DVD: $490 85 minutes | color | 2003 | Order #AS08-40 Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! Pakistan, Japan and the United States, after the A Narmada Diary Introduces the Save Narmada Movement, Now on controversial 1998 nuclear tests on the Indian No Silence In this Court sub-continent, WAR & PEACE is an epic which has spearheaded the agitation against A Film by Elisabeth Dubreuil documentary journey about peace activism in the Sardar Sarover Dam in Western India. the face of global militarism and war. 60 minutes | color | 1995 | Order #AS08-48 Shortly after Indian independence, “Successfully tells the story of this alternative Sale/DVD: $390 Harivallabh Parikh, a disciple of Gandhi, justice system, while at the same time giving 136 minutes | color | 2002 | Order #AS08-42 Sale/DVD: $490 established a revolutionary legal institution. a view of Indian village life.”—Asian Now on We Are Not Your Monkeys and The Open Court, administered by the tribal Educational Media Service News and Reviews Prisoners of Conscience Occupation: Millworker communities in the State of Gujurat, is a Official Selection, 2002 Association for The first film offers the lower caste perspec- Focuses on the State of Emergency imposed by court where anyone can take the floor, where Asian Studies Film Festival tive on the Ramayana story of Hindu legend, Indira Ghandi from June 1975 to March 1977. justice is dispensed without regard to caste. 52 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #AS08-41 one which refutes the notion of divine superi- NO SILENCE IN THIS COURT documents Sale/DVD: $390 45 minutes | b&w | 1978 | Order #AS08-43 ority that underlies the 4,000 year-old Indian Sale/DVD: $375 the proceedings of actual cases and includes Now on caste system. The second records the coura- interviews with the participants, the villagers, Bombay: Our City geous action of workers who, after a four- and the Court’s founder. year lockout, forcibly occupied the New Great Tells the story of the daily battle for survival Eastern textile mill in Bombay. of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay. 25 minutes | color | 1996 | Order #AS08-49 57 minutes | color | 1985 | Order #AS08-44 Sale/DVD: $190 Sale/DVD: $390 Now on Fishing in the Sea of Greed In Memory of Our Friends Portrays the struggle of Indian fishing Shows the violence in Punjab, India, from its communities against huge foreign factory roots in political turmoil of the 1970s and the ships that prowl the oceans of the world, rise of Sikh fundamentalism. decimating the community’s fishing grounds. 60 minutes | color | 1990 | Order #AS08-45 45 minutes | color | 1998 | Order #AS08-50 Sale/DVD: $390 Sale/DVD: $375 Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 31 32 ICARUS FILMS Against My Will Dishonored A Film by Ayfer Ergun A Film by Sigrun Norderval & Gard A. Andreassen

In June 2002, a dispute involving a Over a period of four years, despite death question of honor between the Mai threats, Mukhtar Mai persisted in her search and Mastois clans in rural Pakistan for justice, and was also instrumental in was judged by a local tribal council. When establishing a Crisis Relief Centre for abused Mukhtar Mai pleaded on her family's behalf, women and a new school where girls as well the local imam consented to her punishment as boys can be educated, had her autobiog- as honor-revenge, and she was brutally gang- raphy published in 21 languages in 45 raped by four men from the Mastois clan. different countries, and traveled on behalf of women's rights throughout Europe and at Although local tradition presumed that the UN in New York Mukhtar would commit suicide because she had been dishonored, this strong-willed peasant woman reported the rape to the local police, and when they refused to do anything, a local journalist published her story, which soon erupted in a national controversy over the oppression of women under Islamic law.

In Pakistan, many women who decide to leave abusive marriages are signing their own death warrants. They risk being disfig- ured or murdered by men who believe it is DISHONORED features interviews with the only way to restore honor to the Mukhtar Mai as well as a variety of family.Authorities in Pakistan rarely respond human rights and women's rights to reports of honor killing. The Human activists, lawyers, government officials, Rights Commission Pakistan and the politicians and journalists, all of which Women Action Forum estimate that 1000 serve to illuminate the widespread women are murdered each year, with little or abuse of women throughout the region. no response from the government. “Outspoken and poignant. The film does an At the Dastak women’s shelter in Lahore, excellent job of conveying the horror and DISHONORED documents the remarkable 2008 Thessaloniki women accused of tarnishing the family humanity of the lives of these women.” story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demand for Documentary Festival honor find a safe haven. Here, in this tidy —Al Jadid: A Review & Record of Arab justice received media coverage worldwide, 52 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-52 building with a well-kept lawn, they live in Culture and Arts and which over the next few years led to a Sale/DVD: $390 safety, receiving both counseling and legal “Recommended.” dramatic series of legal proceedings through advice. —Educational Media Reviews Online Pakistan's lower court system, with succes- sive controversial decisions being appealed, Through the stories of several women at 2005 National Women’s Studies to a final ruling by the nation's Supreme Dastak, the film creates a portrait of one insti- Association Film Festival Court, which led to changes in the legal tution that is protecting Pakistani women. 2004 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival system. 50 minutes | color | 2002 | Order #AS08-51 Sale/DVD: $375

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 33 34 ICARUS FILMS Shadow Play: Indonesia’s Years of Living Dangerously Now on Chain of Love A Film by Chris Hilton A Film by Marije Meerman

SHADOW PLAY traces the history of this The film shows how Western powers manip- The demand for domestic help is increasing Southeast island nation, telling the story of ulated key figures in Indonesia to keep in the West, because in many families both Achmad Sukarno, who led the Dutch East Southeast Asia from falling into communist parents must work for economic survival. Indies to independence in the 1940s, but hands. Through recently declassified docu- One consequence is migration: escalating who was deposed as President by General ments, interviews with newly liberated numbers of women in the Third World are Suharto in a 1965 military coup, beginning a Indonesians, and discussions with officials, leaving their own children to take care of kids dictatorship that lasted until 1998. journalists, and survivors of prison and in the West. torture, SHADOW PLAY offers a startling new interpretation of the events that shaped modern Indonesian history. “An excellent and timely documentary that focuses on important gender “Groundbreaking... presents new evidence aspects of work in the global that international anti-Communist forces, economy.”—Asian Educational Media including the U.S., helped bring down the Service News and Reviews Sukarno regime.”—Asian Pages “Recommended! An important and 2003 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival timely topic in an age of increasing economic globalization.” 55 minutes | color | 2002 | CC | Order #AS08-53 —Educational Media Reviews Online Sale/DVD: $390 Women from the Philippines are well 2003 Award of Excellence, Working Women of the World regarded by prospective employers in the Society for Visual Anthropology A Film by Marie-France Collard United States and Europe. They speak 2003 Association for English, are Catholic, and according to many, Asian Studies Film Festival “Informative... Exposes the treatment of Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., WORKING are caring, intelligent, and compliant. As 50 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #AS08-55 WOMEN OF THE WORLD follows the relo- garment production employees.” Rhacel Parrenas, author of Global Servants, Sale/DVD: $390 cation of garment production from Western —Educational Media Reviews Online who is interviewed in the film, remarks, “The countries to nations such as Indonesia, the 2004 National Women’s Studies Filipino nanny is the Mercedes Benz amongst Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are Association Film Festival the international [caregivers].” the rule and employee rights are nonexistent. 2003 Association for The money the expatriates earn in the West is Filmed in France, Belgium, Turkey, Indonesia Asian Studies Film Festival sent home to the Philippines, where local and the Philippines, WORKING WOMEN OF 53 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-54 help can then be hired to look after their chil- THE WORLD puts these women’s stories Sale/DVD: $390 dren. This money is the Philippines’ largest into the larger history and development of source of income in foreign currency. globalization. CHAIN OF LOVE is a film about the Philippines’ second largest export product—maternal love—and how this export affects the women involved, their families in the Philippines, and families in the West.

Chapters: 1. Start 2. Filipino Women, Migrant Labor 3. The Future is Real 4. Displaced Love: Kids Left Behind 5. The Care Chain 6. State Interests

Call Toll Free: 800.876.1710 35 36 ICARUS FILMS Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem Wandering Souls A Film by Masako Sakata A Film by Boris Lojkine

As a young man in the late Sixties, “Paying homage to the casualties Greg Davis served for three years in of the Vietnam War, in this case the the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The area Vietnamese themselves, this film where he was stationed was one of many magnifies the spiritual function of the throughout the country sprayed by the military, cinema.”—Les Inrockuptibles as part of its counterinsurgency strategy, with “Beautifully filmed, edited and millions of gallons of defoliants, including produced... an excellent resource.” Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, the —Educational Media Reviews Online most toxic chemical known to man. After his military service, Davis married and worked for decades as a photojournalist for Thirty years after the end of the war, three Time and other publications worldwide. In “A remarkable film... Sakata’s moving film Vietnamese combat veterans—Dang Van brought back to me memories of the Vietnam 2003, at the age of 54, he died from liver Tho, Hoang Cong Doan and Trân Thi Tiêp— War, the war of my generation, with great cancer, believed to be the result of his expo- undertake a search for the missing remains poignancy and power.” sure to Agent Orange. Produced by Davis’s of fellow soldiers of the Vietnamese People’s —Roger Pulvers, The Japan Times Japanese widow, AGENT ORANGE chroni- Army. The now middle-aged men, who cles the history of this lethally toxic herbicide, 2007 Tokyo International express a sense of guilt for having left the Women’s Film Festival tracing its effects not only on her husband bodies of their comrades on the battlefield, and other U.S. servicemen but also on the 2007 International Festival of visit a number of sites but fail to locate any New Latin American Cinema environment and continuing generations of skeletal remains. 2007 Association for 66 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #AS08-56 Asian Studies Film Festival Vietnamese. During their determined search the veterans Sale/DVD: $348 2005 Cinema Davis’s personal experiences—recounted meet with families of the deceased, consult du Réel Chapters: with local government bureaucrats, and visit through photos and audio recordings, 2005 Biarritz archival footage, reminiscences by his widow 1. Vietnam Scars national cemeteries, including plots reserved 2. Dioxin Contamination Film Festival and a fellow photographer—are comple- for “unknown martyrs,” in an attempt to find 3. Agent Orange Legacy 84 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #AS08-57 mented by U.S. Army films declaring the 4. Worst Exposure their comrades and bring their spirits “back Sale/DVD: $440 defoliants to be “harmless to man.” AGENT 5. Deformations & home.” WANDERING SOULS features their Chapters: Disabilities surprisingly vivid memories of thirty-year-old ORANGE also documents the broader 6. Friendship Village 1. Start human tragedy, featuring interviews with 7. Dioxin Residues battles with American troops, and detailed 2. Unknown Martyr Tomb Vietnamese doctors, a U.S. Army veteran accounts of how their comrades died, as well 3. A Widow’s Journey as the heartrending stories of widows and 4. A Widow’s Prayer who has returned to do humanitarian work in 5. Comrade’s Farewell Vietnam, and heartrending scenes of genera- mothers, revealing the devastating impact of 6. Credits tions of Vietnamese children with congenital the “American War” on marriages, families disabilities or physical deformities. and friendships. WANDERING SOULS may prove to be both unsettling and enlightening for American viewers, since this Vietnamese version of our own MIA issue not only personalizes Vietnamese victims of the war previously regarded as faceless enemy combatants, but also highlights the universal nature of such war-related emotions and concerns. As one grieving widow explains, there is “nothing more precious than a grave to visit.”

See Page 39 for Ordering Information 37 38 ICARUS FILMS More Films & DVDs on Asian Studies Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan From Opium to Now on Since the Company Came Western Eyes A Film by Petr Lom Chrysanthemums A Film by Russell Hawkins A Film by Ann Shin A National Film Board of Canada Production This is the first A Film by PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian SINCE THE film to docu- Examines how COMPANY CAME WESTERN EYES ment the the Hmong, in is the story of a examines the custom of bride Southeast Asia, Solomon Islands’ search for kidnapping, an are struggling to community beauty and self- ancient preserve essen- coming to terms acceptance marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet tial aspects of with social and through the Republic in Central Asia. Although bride kidnap- their culture, while coping with the enormous ecological disinte- experiences of two young American women ping has been illegal in Kyrgyzstan since 1994, it changes forced upon them. gration, when a of Asian descent who believe that their appearance affects the way they are perceived is a law that is rarely enforced, and one in 75 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-61 Malaysian logging by others. three rural ethnic Kyrgyz women have been Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398! company comes forced into such marriages. to their island. “Recommended for... Asian and Women’s 51 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #AS08-58 Human Weapon “Has significant pedagogical value in anthro- Studies collections.” Sale/DVD: $390 A Film by Ilan Ziv pological, ecological, and economic instruc- —Educational Media Reviews Online tion.”—Anthropology Review Database HUMAN 2002 Association for Kim’s Story: The Road from Vietnam 2002 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival A Film by Shelley Saywell WEAPON provides the Asian Studies Film Festival 40 minutes | color | 2000 | CC | Order #AS08-65 The emotionally moving first sober, in- 52 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-64 Sale/DVD: $285 story of Kim Phuc—the depth exami- Sale/DVD: $390 subject of perhaps the most nation of the famous photograph of the complexities of the suicide bombing Ordering Information Vietnam War—and a chron- phenomenon, including the Tamil Tiger sepa- Please refer to Order Numbers on all Orders. Public Performance Rights: All DVDs icle of the personal and ratist movement in Sri Lanka. purchased through this offering are licensed public healing of wounds Sales: DVDs are “leased for the life of the with Public Performance Rights for non- 55 minutes | color | 2002 | CC | Order #AS08-62 DVD.” A rental fee may be deducted from from this century’s longest, most divisive war. commercial and educational exhibition Sale/DVD: $390 the sale price if the DVD is purchased “…a moving exploration of the human cost of when no admission fee is charged. within 60 days of the rental. war.”—Education About Asia Closed Circuit Rights: All DVDs purchased Now on Previews: DVDs may be previewed for Once Removed through this offering are licensed for closed- 48 minutes | color | 1996 | Order #AS08-59 purchase consideration by established A Film by Julie Mallozzi circuit educational use in classrooms on Sale/DVD: $390 video libraries. ONCE REMOVED is the story of a young your campus, at no additional cost. Ordering: Submit all orders by purchase Now on woman who travels to China to meet her First Kill order, on official institutional letterhead mother’s relatives for the first time, and discovers A Film by Coco Schrijber stationery, or pay in advance of shipping. a family history What is the psychology of war? Do soldiers Please refer to Order Numbers on all orders. become murderers when they enjoy killing? that encom- Are all humans capable of passes political persecution, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor monstrous acts? Brooklyn, NY 11201 Through interviews with imprisonment, Vietnam War veterans, FIRST KILL examines and murder. Tel: (718) 488-8900 these and other questions, as it explores 52 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #AS08-63 (800) 876-1710 what war does to the human mind and soul. Sale/DVD: $390 Fax: (718) 488-8642 [email protected] 52 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #AS08-60 www.IcarusFilms.com Sale/DVD: $390

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