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Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit / Discoveries / Thailand / 2012 / experimental / 68 mins

A film location scout tries to remember the people and places in photos accidentally deleted.

Preceded by: Night Falls on Glass

BENDS

Flora Lau / Discoveries / Hong Kong / 2013 / drama / 97 mins

A Hong Kong socialite and her Mainlander chauffeur face losing everything they've got.

BIG BOY

Shireen Seno / Discoveries / Philippines / 2012 / experimental, family / 89 mins

Growing up and pulled apart, seen through hazy Super-8 memories.

A BREATH FROM THE BOTTOM

Chan Ching-lin / Discoveries / Taiwan / 2012 / drama, thriller / 42 mins

A rally is raging and a cop gets entangled with an unruly protester... who happens to be his dad.

Preceded by: Kong Peh Tshat or: How I Learned to Tell a Lie

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

Dylan Mohan Gray / Discoveries / India / 2012 / documentary / 84 mins

AIDS drugs exist. So why is Big Pharma leaving millions to die? This Sundance doc dares answer.

THE GREAT NORTH KOREAN PICTURE SHOW

Lynn Lee, James Leong / Discoveries / Singapore / 2012 / documentary / 94 mins

A rare, droll look at filmmaking and film education in North Korea.

HAFU: THE MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCE IN JAPAN

Megumi Nishikura, Lara Perez Takagi / Discoveries / Japan / 2013 / documentary, family / 87 mins

Five moving portraits about mixed-race, multi-cultural Japan.

Preceded by: TaiwanFamous

HOMESICK

Satoru Hirohara / Discoveries / Japan / 2013 / drama, family / 98 mins

Neighborhood kids bring perspective (and water guns) to a man about to lose his childhood home.

ILO ILO

Anthony Chen / Discoveries / Singapore / 2013 / coming-of-age, drama, family / 99 mins

The arrival of a Filipino domestic helper upends a Chinese household.

KARAOKE GIRL

Visra Vichit-Vadakan / Discoveries / Thailand / 2013 / documentary, drama / 77 mins

A country girl enters the Bangkok nightlife to support her family.

A ROLLING STONE

Shen Ko-shang / Discoveries / Taiwan / 2012 / documentary, family / 54 mins

Stern, composed, and with patience for days, a father connects his autistic son to the wider world.

Preceded by: Playing the Piano

A STORY OF YONOSUKE

Shuichi Okita / Discoveries / Japan / 2013 / comedy, drama, romance / 160 mins

Everyone remembers him: that guy with the funny name who somehow changed your life forever.

TRAPPED

Parviz Shahbazi / Discoveries / Iran / 2012 / drama / 92 mins

A medical student is caught between moving ahead in life or saving her party-animal roommate

YUMEN

J.P. Sniadecki, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao / Discoveries / China, USA / 2013 / documentary, experimental / 65 mins

A ghost town erupts in performance so we can scavenge for life amongst the ruins.