Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei, Ann Hui (China, 2012). Beauty comes to the forefront in this omnibus collection of shorts from four of Asia's greatest filmmakers. Includes Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker. (90 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2012). Royston Tan in person. “Old places are like old lovers to me, you never forget them,” says director Royston Tan. In this sequel to the documentary Old Places, Tan takes us on a fond outing to experience Singapore through the recollections of everyday citizens. (77 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2012). Royston Tan in person. “Old places are like old lovers to me, you never forget them,” says director Royston Tan. In this sequel to the documentary Old Places, Tan takes us on a fond outing to experience Singapore through the recollections of everyday citizens. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (77 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2007). Royston Tan in person. Singapore's resident bad-boy Royston Tan pays tribute to his country's kitschiest love-getai, stage musicals that are part small-time Vegas revues and full-time campy fun-in this delirious comedy involving the Papaya Sisters, who dream of winning a national contest. (105 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2007). Royston Tan in person. Singapore's resident bad-boy Royston Tan pays tribute to his country's kitschiest love-getai, stage musicals that are part small-time Vegas revues and full-time campy fun-in this delirious comedy involving the Papaya Sisters, who dream of winning a national contest. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (105 mins)

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2010). This Palme d'Or-winner melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions. This is not magical realism, but realistic magic. (113 mins)

Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy/Algeria, 1966). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. “Because of its perfect fusion of form and content, one of the most strikingly successful subversive films ever made (Amos Vogel).(123 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2003). Royston Tan and Valerie Soe in conversation. High-velocity angst in an artificial Eden, Royston Tan's irreverent first feature dredges up an underworld of teen dropouts, druggies, and dead-enders. (93 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2003). Royston Tan and Valerie Soe in conversation. High-velocity angst in an artificial Eden, Royston Tan's irreverent first feature dredges up an underworld of teen dropouts, druggies, and dead-enders. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (93 mins)

Sion Sono (Japan, 2012). An earthquake and nuclear crisis forces two Japanese families to decide what is worth sacrificing in the name of safety in this alternately naturalistic and surreal work, the first feature inspired by the 2011 Tohoku-Fukushima disaster. From the director of Suicide Club and Love Exposure. (133 mins)

Deepa Dhanraj (India, 2012). Defiantly eschewing Western portraits of Muslim women, Deepa Dhanraj (Something Like a War) explores the first women's jamaat-traditionally a male institution-in South India, where women are raising their voices and enacting new interpretations of Sharia law to demand gender equality. (85 mins)

Edwin (Indonesia, 2012). Raised in Jakarta's zoo, the orphan Lana knows only the world of animals, until she meets a handsome magician who leads her to the outside world, where far stranger beings await. A captivating, poetic portrait of Indonesia's capital city, from the director of The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly. (96 mins)

Chang Jung-Chi (Taiwan, 2012). Taiwan's official entry to this year's Academy Awards and a production of Wong Kar-wai's trend-setting Jet Tone company, Touch of the Light presents the true story of a blind musician who leaves his small village to become the first visually impaired music student at his university. (110 mins)

Kim Gwang Hun, Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans (Belgium/North Korea/U.K., 2012). Plucky coal-miner Comrade Kim abandons her life in a suspiciously cheerful industrial village to head to Pyongyang and become . . . a circus trapeze artist. This sprightly, fairytale-like romantic comedy shows off a side of North Korea you've probably never imagined. (83 mins)