A social-realist drama-comedy film, it follows a seemingly usual day in the life of LOIDA MALABANAN (Vilma Santos) as she embarks on yet another shooting day of a soap opera as an extra. As the shoot goes on, we get a glimpse of the truth in the ruling system of the production as well as the exploitation on the marginal laborers like her.
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The film begins and ends in an airport during a father and son’s transit flight from Tel Aviv to Manila. It tells the story of Moises, a Filipino single-dad working as a care giver in Herzliya, Israel, who comes home to his apartment in Tel Aviv to celebrate his son Joshua’s 4th birthday. It was on that day that Moises, together with their Filipino neighbors Janet, and her daughter Yael, find out that the Israeli government is going to deport children of foreign workers. Afraid of the new law, Moises and Janet decide to hide their children from the immigration police by making them stay inside the house.
The Kirishima Thing (Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo)
(Japan / Japanese / 2013 / 103 mins / 35mm / Colour)
directed by Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
Arrangements are being made by Asian Film Centre, Sri Lanka affiliated to NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) to conduct a Master Class Workshop on Documentary and Short Film Making in Colombo from 13 to 17 September 2013.
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A cradle for mother
(Iran / Farsi /2013 / 80 mins / Betacam SP / Colour)
directed by Panahbarkhoda Rezaee (Iran)
The SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Film Festival held in Colombo, has over the last two years gained momentum for promoting some of the best films from the SAARC Region. Awards are given as incentive to continue producing good films for the region. The Festival will take place at the National Film Corporation Cinema Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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A publication titled "The Early Sri Lankan Cinema and its Association with the South Indian Film Industry" launched on the 24th February, 2013 at the Auditorium of the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. A joint publication of Asian Film Centre, Sri Lanka and NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), this book makes an effort to trace the exciting history of the early period of Sri Lankan cinema through interviews conducted with the surviving directors of the early Sinhala films including A.B. Raj and K.S. Sethumadhavan, It also includes lengthy interviews conducted with Film News Anandan and Randor Guy, the noted historians and archivists of South Indian cinema.
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When ISaw You (Lamma shoftak)
(Palestine, Jordan,Arab Emirates, & Greece / Arabic /2012 / 93 mins / DCP/ Colour)
directed by Anemarie Jacir (Palestine/Jordan)
Donald Richie, the world-famous film scholar,specialist of Japanese cinema and culture, passed away of heart failure in Tokyo on February 19 at the age of 88.His voluminous body of work (books, articles,films…) is a living tribute and a very long love letter to Japan. He arrived in1947 with the US occupation force, and wrote mainly on films for the Pacific Stars and Stripes. His love story with Japan never ended, until his last days in Tokyo, where he lived in a small apartment in Ueno.
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With You Without You (Oba Ekka Oba Nethiva)
Sri Lanka / India / 90 mins/2012/Colour/35mm)
directed by Prasanna Vithanage - Sri Lanka
Obituary
Sun Shaoyi
(1961 - 13th Aug. 2019)
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the demise of our senior NETPAC member, Prof SUN Shaoyi (孙绍谊) on 13th Aug 2019.
Born in 1961, Prof. SUN Shaoyi did a Masters and a Ph.D from the University of Southern California (USC). He was Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai Theater Academy (STA), taught Chinese film and literature at USC, University of California at Irvine, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan), Shanghai University and New York University in Shanghai.
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