Highlights include the Malaysian director Sam Quah's latest, 'A Place Called Silence,' and 'Winter Within' from India's Aamir Bashir.
has unveiled its 10-film selection for New Currents, the event’s main competition section that focuses on Asian cinema. Since the festival launched in 1996, the program has been one of the region’s most important platforms for introducing emerging directors.
This year, two Indian films have been selected for the section including Jaishankar Aryar’s debut film, which traces the struggles of a poor and uneducated middle-aged woman; and Aamir Bashir’s, which also depicts the suffering of a woman set in the Kashmir region, where political disputes and terrorist attacks are ongoing.
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