Special Event Asian Film and Media Industry Seminar A s i a H o u s e Fri 11 March, 9:00 – 12:00, Asia House Invited Guests Only Pan-Asia Film Festival Industry experts assess the radical changes in film and media across Asia. Panels will cover a range of topics including financing, distribution, digital technologies and exhibition of Asian cinema today. 1 – 13 March 2011 ( ) Booking Information Apollo Cinema Piccadilly BAFTA From Iran to Japan… 19 Regent Street 195 Piccadilly Asia’s New Cinema London, SW1Y 4LR London W1J 9LN Tickets Tickets £12 (full) £15 (full) £8 (concessions) £12 (concessions) £8 (Asia House Friends) £10 (Asia House Friends) Box Office Box Office Tel: +44 (0)87 1220 6000 Book through Asia House www.apollocinemas.com/apollo- Tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5454 piccadilly-circus.aspx e-mail: [email protected]

Asia House Ciné Lumière 63 New Cavendish Street 17 Queensberry Place London W1G 7LP London SW7 2DT Tickets Tickets £10 (full) £9 (full) £6 (concessions) £7 (concessions) £5 (Asia House Friends) £7 (Asia House Friends) Box Office Box Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5454 Tel: +44 (0)20 7073 1350 e-mail: [email protected] www.institut-francais.org.uk/book

Festival Information All certificates TBC. Acknowledgments Atom Cinema Programme may be subject to Beta Cinema change at short notice. Finecut Festival Pass £160 – VIP ticket plus First Hand Films guest to five selected screenings House of Film and invitation to press launch, Iranian Independents industry day and opening and Kamoli Films closing receptions. Ananth Mahadevan Orient Studio Productions For more details visit Tony Rayns www.asiahouse.org Small Talk Inc Soda Pictures Festival Director Star Sands Sumi Ghose

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The Pan-Asian Film Festival is a compelling selection of new independent cinema featuring award-winning premieres, work by acclaimed directors and fresh emerging filmmaking talent from across Asia.

Tue 1 March, 18:45 Wed 2 March, 18:30 Norwegian Wood – Norwegian Wood the Art of Adaptation Gala Opening Premiere

Asia House BAFTA Festival Launch Night Dir. Tran Anh Hung Discussion Japan, 2010 133 mins Screenwriter-director Tran Anh Japanese + subtitles Hung, composer-musician Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and New adaptation by Oscar ® Oscar ® nominated actress Rinko nominated director Tran Anh Hung Kikuchi visit Asia House for a special (The Scent of Green Papaya) of discussion on the art of adaptation ’s novel of love, and the creative interplay between a loss and sexual passion. Set in a book, film and soundtrack. 1960s Japan engulfed by student unrest and pop music, this sensual film follows two childhood friends who are drawn together by a shared tragedy, and who struggle to overcome their memories of the past. Featuring extraordinary performances by a young cast, including leading Japanese actress , and an atmospheric soundtrack by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Norwegian Wood will be released by Soda Pictures on 11 March. Official selection 2010, Toronto International Film Festival 2010 Asia’s New Cinema From Iran to Japan 1 – 13 March 2011 Pan-Asia Film Festival e s u o H a i s A Thu 3 March, 18:45 Fri 4 March, 19:30 Sat 5 March, 16:30 Sat 5 March, 19:30 Sun 6 March, 19:00 Brilliant Moon Kick Off Taipei Exchanges Hahaha I am Sindhutai Sapkal English Premiere

Asia House Apollo Cinema Apollo Cinema Apollo Cinema Apollo Cinema Dir. Neten Chokling Dir. Shawkat Amin Korki Dir. Hsiao Ya-Chuan Dir. Hong Sangsoo Dir. Ananth Mahadevan Tibet/India/Bhutan/Nepal/US, 2010 Iraq/Kurdistan, 2009 Taiwan, 2010 South Korea, 2010 India, 2010 56 mins 81 mins 82 mins 115 mins 110 mins English Kurdish/Arabic + subtitles Mandarin + subtitles Korean + subtitles Marathi + subtitles

… A new documentary by Buddhist Premiere of award-winning film Special screening of the new feature Prestigious prizewinner at Cannes A moving and inspirational biopic lama Neten Chokling, exploring the by Iraqi Kurdish director Shawkat by Hsiao Ya-Chuan (executive last year, this wry comedy is replete on Sindhutai Sapkal, the ‘Mother of life of the revered Tibetan teacher Amin Korki that follows the lives of produced by Taiwan’s leading with Hong Sangsoo’s signature Orphans’, who was born into a poor and writer Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, displaced families of Kurds, Arabs, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien), motifs of romantic mishaps and family in 1950s rural Maharashtra, whose students included the Dalai Turks and Assyrians who have taken a stylish and enjoyable tale of love, alcohol fuelled reflections on love India, and forced into marriage aged Lama and the King of Bhutan. refuge in a derelict football stadium friendship, coffee and cake. and life. Two old friends exchange only 12. Denied an education, she Narrated by Richard Gere and Lou in Kirkuk. When Asu, a young Kurd, Two sisters run a café that becomes memories of recent visits they both nevertheless develops a strong inner Reed, featuring archive footage, organises a football tournament, a swap shop, a place where made to the same seaside town. confidence and begins to speak out. animation and interviews with the tensions between the different customers come to exchange their Over the course of several drinks, Pregnant with her third child and leading Buddhist spiritual figures. ethnic groups are played out on junk and life stories for an object of their individual stories begin to falsely accused of adultery, she is the pitch. With stunning yet surreal unravel, revealing how their two lives thrown out of her inlaws’ home. This Post-screening discussion their desire. As hopes and ambitions cinematography, the film finds hope were unwittingly interwoven through heart-rending story tells of Sapkal’s An expert panel considers the intersect over espresso, the sisters in the bleakness of post-Saddam a string of uncanny coincidences. extraordinary fight for the rights of master’s significance in the Tibetan reassess their future… Hussein Iraq. Master of wit, Hong Sangsoo brings impoverished women and children diaspora. Official selection a refreshingly humorous touch to this Winner Introduction by Cary Sawhney Tokyo International Film Festival satirical comedy of situations. FIPRESCI & New Currents Awards, 2010 Official Selection Pusan International Film Festival Introduction by Tony Rayns Palm Springs International Film 2009 Winner Festival 2011 , 2010

Mon 7 March, 18:45 Tue 8 March, 18:45 Wed 9 March, 20:30 Thu 10 March, 19:30 Sat 12 March, 19:30 Sun 13 March, 20:00 Sona, the Other Myself Aung San Suu Kyi – The Light Thief The Rice Paddy Rainy Seasons Au Revoir Taipei UK Premiere Lady of No Fear UK Premiere UK Premiere Closing Gala Premiere

Asia House Asia House Apollo Cinema Apollo Cinema Apollo Cinema Ciné Lumière Dir. Yang Yonghi Dir. Anne Gyrithe Bonne Dir. Aktan Arym Kubat Dir. Xiaoling Zhu Dir. Majid Barzegar Dir. Arvin Chen Japan/South Korea, 2009 Denmark, 2010 Kyrgyzstan/Germany/France/ China/France, 2010 Iran, 2010 Taiwan/US/Germany, 2010 82 mins 60 mins Netherlands, 2010 82 mins 86 mins 85 mins Japanese/Korean + subtitles English/Burmese + subtitles 80 mins Dong/Mandarin + subtitles Farsi + subtitles Mandarin/Taiwanese + subtitles Kyrgyz + subtitles Following Korea’s division, Yonghi’s Special screening on International This first film made in the Dong This compelling coming of age tale Award-winning debut cleverly parents were among those who Women’s Day of a new documentary A rich and colourful new feature language, set in the mountains of tells the story of Sina. As he deals combining romantic comedy with emigrated to Japan. A committed that explores the family life and by award-winning Kyrgyz director Guangxi Province, China, follows with his parents’ divorce, behind a crime caper, with executive producer communist and North Korean personal character of Burmese Aktan Arym Kubat that follows ‘Mr the life of 12 year old A Qiu. She cool exterior is a frightened teenager Wim Wenders. Broken-hearted Kai, sympathiser, her father sent her democracy leader Aung San Suu Light’, an affable electrician in a aspires to be a writer and travel with his own issues. He confides whose girlfriend has left for Paris, brothers back to the supposed Kyi. Archive footage and moving remote village in the mountains of the world. Her parents are migrant in Nahid, a young woman secretly works in a noodle restaurant whilst socialist paradise of 1970s North interviews with close friends reveal Kyrgyzstan. He aims to bring cheap workers in the city, but the death staying at his flat while studying and learning French at a bookshop Korea. Filmed over a decade, Yonghi her life in Oxford, her marriage to the wind power to his rural community of her grandmother forces them to looking for work. As his predicament where he meets Susie. Agreeing presents a personal and touching late Dr Michael Aris and her return to but change comes when local return to the family home. The story unfolds and his friendship with Nahid to deliver a mysterious package account of her transnational family Burma, where she spent many years magnate Bezkat offers to sell the evolves over four seasons, with a deepens, Sina has to take some in return for a trip to Paris, Kai relations, split between Osaka and under house arrest locals’ land to a group of Chinese beautiful score including traditional brave decisions. Set in the rarely becomes embroiled in a gangster Pyongyang. Through their reunions investors. Juxtaposing tradition and Dong music. Yet, it is equally a seen world of Iranian middle class plot. Amidst the chaos, Kai and in Pyongyang, we observe the In a post-screening discussion modernity, the film is a poetic and comment on contemporary youth youth, this is a gritty drama about Susie find themselves running, growing bond between Yonghi and with director Anne Gyrithe Bonne, visually ravishing allegory of life in in an increasingly modern and teenage life in Tehran today. eating and dancing through a vibrant broadcaster Nita Yin Yin May, who night-time Taipei. But will Kai stay or her niece Sona, in a story that subtly post-Soviet central Asia. changing China. Supported by Iran Heritage illustrates how the regime resonates knows Aung San Suu Kyi well, say goodbye…? and who herself spent three years Official selection Official selection Foundation in everyday life in Pyongyang. Winner in prison in Burma, considers Cannes Film Festival 2010, Stockholm International Film Nominated NETPAC Award, Berlinale 2010 Official selection the future her country and of this Locarno Film Festival 2010, Toronto Festival 2010 Tiger Awards – International Film Pusan International Film Festival inspirational figure. International Film Festival 2010 Festival Rotterdam 2011 Official selection 2009, Berlinale 2010 Official selection Pusan International Film Festival CPH:DOX 2010 2010

Sun 13 March, 20:00 Au Revoir Taipei

Friday 4 March 19:30 Kick Off Sat 12 March, 19:30 Rainy Seasons

Sat 5 March, 19:30 Thur 10 March, 19:30 Hahaha The Rice Paddy

Sun 6 March, 19:00 Wed 9 March, 20:30 I am Sindhutai Sapkal The Light Thief