Filmakers - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

23 film(s) found

	All Points of the Compass Tran Van Lam was foreign minister of South Vietnam during the devastating war with the North. During the war he dispersed his nine children to Australia, France, the US, and Scotland with the hope that they would return to Vietnam after the war. The film captures their challenges to make new lives in the countries to which they immigrated. more »
	Among the Disappeared This compelling documentary traces the personal story of one young man's return to Cambodia years after his escape from its holocaust and the history of his homeland. more »
	Cambodia: The Betrayal An expose of the hypocrisy of the West, which continued to support the Pol Pot regime despite the atrocities they committed. more »
	Cambodia: Land of Silence In the mid-1970's, Cambodia was the victim of a brutal genocide, when the communist Pol Pot regime exterminated every fifth inhabitant. This film shows efforts that are now being made in the country towards reconciliation. For many, the wounds remain deep. more »
	Celestial Dance This richly photographed film shows a special ceremony performed in a remote village in northern Bali to purify the village. Two young girls dance and chant in accordance with strict Balinese traditions. more »
	Children of the Seven-headed Snake This lively film about the kingdom of Cambodia provides a remarkable picture of a country that endured political upheaval and genocide, yet was able to renew itself by reconnecting with ancient beliefs and traditions more »
	Cross and Kalashnikov An extraordinary investigation of the long drawn out guerrilla war in the jungles of Burma. more »
	Dancing Through Death The film details the murderous years of Pol Pot (1975‒79) when 90 percent of Cambodian dancers were executed or died of starvation or disease, and shares how survivors trained a new generation to continue their tradition. more »
	Ho Chi Minh This film, based on newsreel footage and interviews with contemporaries, traces the story of Ho Chi Minh's life, the Vietnamese leader who against seemingly insurmountable odds humiliated two of the world's strongest armies, the American and the French. more »
	Inside Rice: A Grain of Culture From the rice paddies in the country to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, this lively film allows us to view contemporary Vietnam through a unique perspective: the culture of rice. The history of this small grain is intertwined with rites and customs that are an integral part of Vietnamese life and culture. more »
	The Last Ghost of War Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, children in Saigon's Tu Du Hospital are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. more »
	The Last Refuge: The Aetas of The Phillipines Relegated to remote reservations on the rugged slopes of Mt. Pinatuba, the Aetas survived slavery by the Spanish colonizers and battled commercial logging and encroachment on their ancestral land. more »
	Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves Each day, thousands of women leave underdeveloped countries to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. This film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of their stories. more »
	Precious Cargo: Vietnamese Adoptees Discover Their Past Operation Babylift in 1975 helped thousands of South Vietnamese children to escape to America where they were adopted. In their mid-twenties, the adoptees return to their birthplace in search of their roots. more »
	Rasinah: The Enchanted Mask Watching the lithe, expressive movements of master Javanese masked dancer Rasinah, one would never believe a 72-year-old woman is behind the mask. more »
	Say I Do: Mail Order Brides Say I Do chronicles the stories of three "mail-order brides" from the Philippines who uprooted themselves to marry men they did not know in order to escape poverty. Life was not what they expected. more »
	Singapore-Malaysia: The Lion and the Tiger The Johore Strait separates the highly prosperous city-state of Singapore from the rapidly developing economic "tiger" of Malaysia. As the film illustrates, they are nevertheless extremely interdependent. more »
	Sometimes I Must Speak Out Strongly The Bishop of East Timor, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dares to speak out against Indonesia's relentless oppression. more »
	Victims of Cheap Coffee Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries. more »
	Vietnam Mission This is the story of a remarkable Canadian-American missionary couple who settled, in 1929, among the Montagnard tribes of Vietnam's highlands. They lived, worked and filmed there for fifty years. This film was produced by their grandson more »
	Vietnamese Bike Dreams There is a craze for motor bikes in Ho Chi Minh City. Many save, scrimp, or borrow to buy one This report on the motor bike phenomenon, allows a rare look at the Vietnamese people in a rapidly changing time. more »
	Vietnamese Miracle Cure A pilot program for curing drug addiction through the use of herbal medicine was developed by a doctor in Vietnam. We see astonishing recoveries. It is now being researched in the United States. more »
	A World Beneath the War: The Secret Tunnels of Vietnam This film tells the remarkable story of the villagers of one district of North Vietnam who found themselves on the frontlines of an increasingly brutal war. They survived by digging a series of tunnels and moving their entire community underground. more »