A young woman struggles to care for this song and paralyzed husband in Siti. Siti is a woman, whose husband was paralyzed a year previous in a boating accident. Desperate for money to pay off her outstanding debts, Siti sells snacks on the beach during the while, while selling herself in an illegal karaoke bar…
A young woman is the uncredited artist behind her father’s acclaimed paintings in Miss Hokusai. Tetsuzo is an accomplished painter, who works under the name of Hokusai. While Tetsuzo always receives full credit, it is often his daughter O-Ei, who is painting his works behind the scenes. In addition to painting, O-Ei has to deal with womanizing…
A troubled youth becomes a police informant in Kirumi. Kathir is a troubled youth, who regularly gambles in illegal bars and has run-ins with the corrupt police force. After being thrown in jail for the night, Kathir runs into family friend Prabhakar, who is a police informant and he arranges for Kathir to also become and…
Two tailors compete for the favour of the royal family in The Royal Tailor. After 30 years of service towards The King (Yoo Yeon-Seok), head tailor Dol-Seok (Suk-kyu Han) only has a few months remaining, before he is made a noble and retires. Dol-Seok finds his position threatened when younger tailor Kong-Jin (Soo Go) comes to the palace…
An overachieving Indian-American girl enters into a beauty pageant in Miss India America. Lily Prasad (Tiya Sircar) is an aspiring brain surgeon, who is used to winning everything and she has the perfect plan for the perfect life with her boyfriend Karim (Kunal Sharma). However, when Karim breaks up with Lily for a beauty queen, she…
The 2015 edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival kicked off with the opening film Driving with Selvi. There are 750 million women around the world who are married before the age of 18, one third of which are in India. Selvi is one of these women, who was married off age the…
This year was my second year covering the Reel Asian Film Festival. Altogether, I ended seeing 16 features, which is exactly double the number of films I saw at the festival last year. One thing I noticed from this year’s Reel Asian line-up was the number of documentaries that were part of the line-up, with…
Adi (Vijay Varma) is a rookie police officer in Mumbai, who is assigned by his superior officer Khan (Neeraj Kabi) to help seek out an axe-wielding hit man named Shiva (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who is working for a gangster known as the Slum Lord. On one extremely rainy night, Adi chases down Shiva and corners him…
Sid Sharma (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is a man at the crossroads of his life, as his marriage falls apart and his career as an architect doesn’t go as planned. One day, Sid is visited by his estranged father Ashok (Roshan Seth), who has traveled from Boston to Los Angeles for a conference, which happens to have…
For decades, development in Hong Kong’s New Territories were kept stable by the Ding House Policy, which allowed Dings (male heirs) to build houses on premium free land. However, according to Uncle To (Kenneth Tsang), this policy is a waste of land and he begins plans with the Luk brothers, headed by Keung (Sean Lau),…
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