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- DirectorMidi ZStarsKai KoKe-Xi WuShin-Hong WangTwo Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.
- DirectorEduardo W. Roy Jr.StarsRonwaldo MartinHasmine KillipJohn Kenji MontoroJane and Aries are teenage parents. They make a living out of stealing on the streets... until fate hits back at them.
- DirectorMario CornejoStarsLucky MalijanaRJ Joseph MarinoChad MalijanoThe film is set in surfing town of Baler where Ford who is wasting his youth away. Named after Francis Ford Coppola. As another surfing season is ending, he is forced to confront his past, including the myths and myths about his life.
- DirectorJoko AnwarStarsTara BasroChicco JerikhoMaera PanigoroA female cheap salon worker and a pirated DVDs subtitle maker fall in love during the turbulent presidential election in Indonesia.
- DirectorAngga Dwimas SasongkoStarsRio DewantoChicco JerikhoJulie EstelleA coffee shop struggling to pay their debts, while at the same time maintaining their principles.
- DirectorEddie CahyonoStarsSekar SariBintang Timur WidodoTiti DibyoSiti has to find ways and means to care for her son and her husband. By day, she sells snacks; by night, she works as a karaoke guide. Tainted by her nighttime employment, Siti finds her husband no longer wishes to speak to her.
- DirectorNawapol ThamrongrattanaritStarsSunny SuwanmethanontDavika HoorneViolette WautierA hard-working freelancer falls in love with a doctor.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsJaclyn JoseJulio DiazBaron GeislerMa' Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor Manila neighborhood where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. When they get arrested one day, Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsThanapat SaisaymarJenjira PongpasSakda KaewbuadeeDying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsBanlop LomnoiSakda KaewbuadeeHuai DessomA romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsNantarat SawaddikulJaruchai IamaramSophon PukanokStory about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents, who were both doctors, and the director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
- DirectorBaz PoonpiriyaStarsChutimon ChuengcharoensukyingEisaya HosuwanTeeradon SupapunpinyoLynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC(SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsKanokporn TongaramMin OoJenjira PongpasThe story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
- DirectorWisit SasanatiengStarsChartchai NgamsanStella MalucchiSupakorn KitsuwonWith its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsSomapala DharmapriyaMyrtle FernandoShesha PalihakkaraA sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy and his friend--a blind girl who he accidentally 'heals' by giving her sight. Though the girl believes the boy healed her, in reality the boy has no such powers. The father of the boy fools the village folk into believing he's a healer, but ultimately the sham is exposed, causing the village to revolt against the boy and his family.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsPunya HeendeniyaHenry JayasenaWickrema BogodaA girl is forced into a loveless marriage by her family.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsSriyani AmarasenaWickrema BogodaAnula KarunatillekaDamayanthi Kariyawasam (Dhammi) (Anula Karunathilake) is a mischievous school girl. Sugath Weerasekara (Wickrema Bogoda) is a shy and introverted boy who is new to Dhammi's school. He is quiet and gifted at schoolwork. Dhammi is immediately attracted to him and they become friends. The friendship eventually develops in to a special relationship. Sugath, who has lost his parents when he was very young, has a brother who is attending university. He tells his brother, Sarath (Wijeratne Warakagoda) about his relationship with Dhammi. On the day of the final exam, Dhammi tells Sugath that she only loved Sugath as a brother and not to keep any further hopes about her. Sugath is heartbroken and comes home to meet Sarath. In the meantime, he passes his exams with flying colors and Sarath marries Champa (Sriyani Amarasena), who is willing to accept Sugath as her own brother. But Sugath is unable to forget Dhammi, and keeps thinking about her and begins to drink heavily to alleviate his pain. He also loses his job as a teacher and leaves the home he shares with his brother's family. One day, Dhammi comes to meet Sugath and reveals the secret for her sudden change. She states that her family arranged her marriage to her cousin, Nihal, many years ago when Dhammi was very young. She tells Sugath that she loved him despite knowing that she would never have the chance to become his wife. She begs for forgiveness from him for playing with his feelings and asks him to change for her sake, and to return home.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsK.L. Coranelis AppuhamyKumarasinghe AppuhamySaman BokalawalaThis film chronicles the tale of Willie Abeynayake (Gamini Fonseka) and his effort to uncover a treasure, which can only be attained by sacrificing a virgin girl with four birthmarks. Willie finds his girl, but in a twist of events he falls in love with her. But after losing his job, ensuing economic complications force him to reconsider sacrificing her for the treasure.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsJoe AbeywickramaDharmasena AthukoralaDavid DharmakirthiThe adventure of a rebellious child, running away from his house to an island called Madol Duwa.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsTissa AbeysekeraJoe AbeywickramaSriyani AmarasenaThe film centers around the story behind national patriot Veera Puran Appu and his Matale rebellion in 1848 for the freedom from the British. Though he was executed by the British by firing squad, his influence to the country's independence has been highly praised and thus Puran Appu is highlighted as a national hero.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsJoe AbeywickramaArthur C. ClarkeDavid DharmakirthiThe lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsMarsha TimothyEgy FedlyTumpal TampubolonMarlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
- DirectorJoko AnwarStarsTara BasroBront PalaraeDimas AdityaAfter dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
- DirectorIshmael BernalStarsRita GomezVic VargasEddie GarciaA taxi dancer (Rita Gomez) and taxi driver (Vic Vargas) are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director (Eddie Garcia). The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and lovers.
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsJoe ColeVithaya PansringarmCherry MikoThe true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.
- DirectorTreb Monteras IIStarsAbraDido de la PazLoonieA poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore.
- DirectorTimo TjahjantoStarsIko UwaisJoe TaslimJulie EstelleIto, a gangland enforcer, is caught amidst a treacherous and violent insurrection within his Triad crime family upon his return home from a stint abroad.
- DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsTshewang DendupGup Kado DubaDasho KadoThe two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to hitchhike through the beautiful wild countryside of Bhutan to reach his goal. He shares the road with a monk, an apple seller, a papermaker and his beautiful young daughter, Sonam. Throughout the journey, the perceptive yet mischievous monk relates the story of Tashi. It is a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and murder, that holds up a mirror to the restless Dondup, and his blossoming attraction to the innocent Sonam. The cataclysmic conclusion of the monk's tale leaves Dondup with a dilemma--is the grass truly greener on the other side?