27 June-2 July, 1995
Leiden, the Netherlands

Film festival: Asia in Motion

Parallel to the first EUROSEAS conference of Southeast Asian Studies, the Asian Cinema Centre is organizing the film festival Asia in Motion in Cultural Centre the X, Haarlemmerstraat 52, Leiden. Ten recent films from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea which concentrate on the fundamental social changes taking place in modern Southeast Asia will be shown.

By Heleen Valewink and Henk Schulte Nordholt

In Southeast Asian societies rapid economic, social and cultural changes have been the order of the day during the past ten years. The unparalleled economic growth has given rise to new life-styles, new social relations and new dilemmas.
Asia in Motion pays attention to the influence these rapid changes have on the lives of individuals and groups in this region.
Examples of these changes are the contrasts between rural and urban life; changing relations between men and women; tensions between older and younger generations; the way society deals with AIDS and prostitution; and the position of women and youngsters in Southeast Asian society.

The Programme
On the programme are the Philippine film The Dolzura Cortez Story, directed by Laurice Guillen. Dolzura Cortez shows how Philippine society deals with social problems caused by AIDS and HIV. The South Korean film The Women and the Man, directed by Kim Ui-Suk, deals with changing relations between men and woman in South Korean society.
The Vietnamese film The Return, directed by Dang Nhat Minh, shows a triangular relationship between two Vietnamese men and a woman. The central theme of the film is the disastrous impact the market economy can have on human relationships. Reflections of film makers provide us with insights in the dilemmas Southeast Asian societies are facing.
As we have arranged at other festivals, film makers and film specialists will introduce the films to the public. There will be also time for discussions and questions. Among our guests are Mr. Raja Ahmad Alauddin from Malaysia and Dr Michael Kaden from Germa- ny.
Each night at 20.00 and 22.00 from Tuesday June 27 to Sunday July 2 a film will be shown. Tickets cost Dfl. 7.50. Participants in the EUROSEAS conference can buy passe- partouts of Dfl. 20.00 (3 films) and Dfl. 30.00 (5 films) during registration. The final programme of the Asia in Motion festival will be available by mid-June.

The Asian Cinema Centre
The Asian Cinema Centre is a foundation linked to the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam, and organizes scientific and cultural events relating to the Asian cinema.
In co-operation with the Dutch Film Museum in Amsterdam, the Asian Cinema Centre organized The Southeast Asian Film Festival (1992) in which eighty feature films, documentaries and short films from 8 Southeast Asian countries were shown. Cinema Indonesia (1993), Cinema Thai (1994) and the media fes- tival Focus on AIDS in Asia (January 1995) were organized in collaboration with the Soeterijn Theatre in Amsterdam.



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