Hawaii International Film Festival: Features Lineup
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1. A Ciambra (2017)
Unrated | 118 min | Crime, Drama
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Carpignano | Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato
Votes: 2,937 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Alaska Is a Drag (2017)
83 min | Drama
Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out... See full summary »
Director: Shaz Bennett | Stars: Martin L. Washington Jr., Maya Washington, Matt Dallas, Chris O'Shea
Votes: 539
3. ArtBlock (2017)
3 min | Animation, Short | Completed
John a young aspiring artist that lets his imagination run rampant. Can he keep that burning passion as he grows up?
Director: Alfred Chan
4. Back to Burgundy (2017)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have to re-build their relationship and trust as a family again.
Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot
Votes: 5,489 | Gross: $0.26M
5. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A thrilling and action-packed Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a story about loyalty, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
Director: Jared Moshe | Stars: Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Stephen Alan Seder, Kathy Baker
Votes: 7,805 | Gross: $0.01M
6. A Beautiful Star (2017)
127 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoko Nakajima
Votes: 257
7. Becoming Who I Was (2017)
95 min | Documentary
After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
Directors: Moon Chang-Yong, Jeon Jin | Stars: Angdu Padma, Rigzin Urgain
Votes: 224
8. Before We Vanish (2017)
R | 129 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 2,823 | Gross: $0.05M
9. Birds Without Names (2017)
TV-14 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery
Tawako's boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi | Stars: Yû Aoi, Sadao Abe, Tôri Matsuzaka, Yutaka Takenouchi
Votes: 901
10. Borg vs. McEnroe (2017)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
Director: Janus Metz | Stars: Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny
Votes: 34,376 | Gross: $14.11M
11. 120 BPM (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 16,731 | Gross: $0.13M
12. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 315,346 | Gross: $18.10M
13. Close-Knit (2017)
127 min | Drama
Tomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo's uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko's special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a time.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Kenta Kiritani, Mugi Kadowaki, Eiko Koike
Votes: 1,952
14. Columbus (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.
Director: Kogonada | Stars: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes
Votes: 20,949 | Gross: $1.02M
15. Cycle (II) (2018)
96 min | Comedy
A post-Independence era story, Cycle is about 'Keshav''s intense love for his cycle which gets stolen by two thieves. Will Keshav ever find his cycle back?
Director: Prakash Kunte | Stars: Hrishikesh Joshi, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Bhau Kadam, Bapu Awale
Votes: 682
16. Darkest Hour (2017)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, War
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 220,637 | Gross: $56.47M
17. The Day After (2017)
92 min | Drama, Romance
The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Ki Joabang, Taeu Kang
Votes: 2,509 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Dealer/Healer (2017)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Biography of Chen Hua, a former underworld kingpin and drug dealer who takes a new lease of life and help rehabilitate people from drug addiction.
Director: Lawrence Ah-Mon | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Ka-Tung Lam, Yiyan Jiang, Louis Koo
Votes: 285
19. Dear Etranger (2017)
127 min | Drama
A 40-year old man sees his life change when his wife gets pregnant. He already has a daughter from his first marriage whom he rarely sees and two step-daughters, from his wife's first ... See full summary »
Director: Yukiko Mishima | Stars: Rena Tanaka, Tadanobu Asano, Miu Arai, Narushi Ikeda
Votes: 404
20. Downsizing (2017)
R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig
Votes: 124,396 | Gross: $24.45M
21. The Endless (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington
Votes: 49,357 | Gross: $0.27M
22. The Final Year (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
A chronicle of the Barack Obama administration's foreign policy team and the events of Obama's final year in office.
Director: Greg Barker | Stars: Ben Rhodes, Samantha Power, John Kerry, Susan Rice
Votes: 3,410 | Gross: $0.19M
23. The Gangster's Daughter (2017)
105 min | Crime, Drama
When her mom dies unexpectedly, a rebellious teen is reunited with her dad, a small-time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime -- until a corrupt cop turns their world upside down.
Director: Mei-Juin Chen | Stars: Ally Chiu, Jack Kao, Lawrence Ko
Votes: 139
24. Gemini (II) (2017)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
Director: Aaron Katz | Stars: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee
Votes: 5,663 | Gross: $0.20M
25. Glass Garden (2017)
116 min | Drama, Mystery
Despite her disabled leg, Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns ... See full summary »
Director: Su-won Shin | Stars: Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Sin Dong-ryeok, Go Eun-chong
Votes: 167
26. The Great Buddha+ (2017)
102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
One day when Pickle and his friend Belly Bottom watch the dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss they stumble upon a secret.
Director: Hsin-yao Huang | Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai, Shao-Huai Chang
Votes: 4,875
27. Gukoroku - Traces of Sin (2016)
120 min | Drama, Mystery
An investigations on murder didn't reach to any results, until a journalist discover new information that get on the trail of the criminal.
Director: Kei Ishikawa | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hikari Mitsushima, Keisuke Koide, Asami Usuda
Votes: 1,169
28. Heavy Water, Virtual Reality (2018 Video)
Short
A third generation surf board enthusiast who ups the ante on his family legacy.
Director: Michael Oblowitz | Star: Nathan Fletcher
29. I Am Evidence (2017)
TV-MA | 89 min | Documentary
An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.
Directors: Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir | Stars: Gail Abarbanel, Richard Bell, Joe Biden, Carol Blass
Votes: 749
30. I Can I Will I Did (2017)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A bullied teen is rehabilitated enough to walk again and finds redemption with the help of a Taekwondo Grandmaster.
Director: Nadine Truong | Stars: Ik Jo Kang, Mike Faist, Ellie Lee, Jack DiFalco
Votes: 143
31. I Can Speak (2017)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly woman who constantly files complaints with the local office about the wrongs that she sees around her each day, forms an unlikely friendship with a junior civil service officer, who begins to teach her English.
Director: Hyun-seok Kim | Stars: Na Moon-hee, Lee Jehoon, Park Chul-min, Yeom Hye-ran
Votes: 2,311
32. I, Tonya (2017)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 242,629 | Gross: $30.01M
33. Ichi the Killer (2001)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Votes: 60,028 | Gross: $0.02M
34. In the Fade (2017)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 35,624 | Gross: $0.32M
35. Jimami Tofu (2017)
121 min | Drama, Romance
A Chinese Singaporean chef, formerly working in Tokyo, finds himself in Okinawa begging a disgruntled old chef to teach him traditional Okinawan food. A top Japanese food critic finds ... See full summary »
Directors: Jason Chan, Christian Lee | Stars: Mari Yamamoto, Masane Tsukayama, Jason Chan, Rino Nakasone
Votes: 67
36. Keep Talking (2017)
80 min | Documentary
With less than 40 fluent Elder speakers remaining, the Alutiiq language is at risk. Four Alaska Native women discover language revitalization offers complex challenges and unique, potentially life-saving rewards.
Director: Karen Lynn Weinberg
Votes: 17
37. King of Peking (2017)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.
Director: Sam Voutas | Stars: Jun Zhao, Wang Naixun, Qing Han, Si Chao
Votes: 394
38. Lady Bird (2017)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
In 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges
Votes: 328,480 | Gross: $48.96M
39. Made in Hong Kong (1997)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li, Ka-Chuen Tam
Votes: 3,002
40. Maineland (2017)
90 min | Documentary
Stella and Harry are affluent, cosmopolitan teenagers who are part of the enormous wave of "parachute students" from Mainland China enrolling in U.S. private schools. Shot over three years ... See full summary »
Director: Miao Wang
Votes: 104
41. Man of Will (2017)
115 min | Action, Drama
Young Kim Chang-Soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, Kim Chang-Soo sees how Koreans are ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Won-tae | Stars: Cho Jin-woong, Song Seung-heon, Kwon Ban-suk, Kwak Dong-yeon
Votes: 190
42. Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 16,145 | Gross: $2.42M
43. Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Shu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh at night, and they manage to capture one of them.
Director: Giddens Ko | Stars: Yu-Kai Teng, Kent Tsai, Bonnie Liang, Carolyn Chen
Votes: 1,705
44. Mrs. Fang (2017)
86 min | Documentary
Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
Director: Wang Bing | Star: Fang Xiuying
Votes: 316
45. Newton (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A government clerk on election duty in the conflict ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Director: Amit Masurkar | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 21,187
46. Oh Lucy! (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi | Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Soseki Yamatoya, Miyu Yagyu, Kayano Masuyama
Votes: 3,353 | Gross: $0.38M
47. Ordinary Person (2017)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An up-righteous police officer with a wife and son gets involved with a conspiracy after he arrested a murderer by chance. His weakness was his son needed an operation to treat his legs. Which path to choose? Righteousness or conspiracy?
Director: Bong-han Kim | Stars: Hee Sun Chung, Jo Dal-hwan, Kim Do-yeob, Jeong Han-bin
Votes: 548
48. Our Time Will Come (2017)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, War
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo, Deannie Ip
Votes: 1,004 | Gross: $0.10M
49. Paradox (2017)
101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough Hong Kong cop's 16 y.o. daughter disappears in Pattaya. He goes to Thailand to find her and must deal with corrupt cops but an honest one helps him track down culprits involved in illegal organ trafficking.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Louis Koo, Yue Wu, Ka-Tung Lam, Chris Collins
Votes: 4,355
50. Point of No Return (2017)
94 min | Documentary
Takes you behind-the-scenes of the first solar-fueled flight around the world in Swiss airplane Solar Impulse in which two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible.
Directors: Noel Dockstader, Quinn Kanaly | Stars: André Borschberg, Bertrand Piccard
Votes: 33
51. Satan's Slaves (2017)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for 3 years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Director: Joko Anwar | Stars: Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, Dimas Aditya, Endy Arfian
Votes: 11,217
52. The Scythian Lamb (2017)
126 min | Thriller
Six strangers who move to a coastal town are part of a covert government project to resocialize murder convicts, but their plan goes awry.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Ryô Nishikido, Fumino Kimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Yûka
Votes: 617
53. Sekigahara (2017)
150 min | Drama, History, War
A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Koji Yakusho, Kasumi Arimura, Takehiro Hira
Votes: 868
54. The Sheriff in Town (2017)
115 min | Comedy, Crime
Dae-Ho (Lee Sung-Min) is a former detective and now considers himself the neighborhood sheriff of where he lives. Jong-Jin (Cho Jin-Woong) is a successful businessman from Seoul that moves ... See full summary »
Director: Hyeong-ju Kim | Stars: Kang Deok-Joong, Kim Jae-yeong, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Jong-goo
Votes: 210
55. The Square (2017)
R | 151 min | Comedy, Drama
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary
Votes: 77,219 | Gross: $1.50M
56. Stand Up Man (2017)
85 min | Comedy
Forced to move back to hometown Windsor, wannabe comedian Moses Kim finds his dreams derailed in his family restaurant. Life gets more complicated when Moses' teenage cousin from Korea unexpectedly shows up.
Director: Aram Collier | Stars: Daniel Jun, Daniel Daegun Lee, Rosalina Lee, Antony Hall
Votes: 12
57. Survival Family (2016)
117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
After a sudden worldwide power cut, a Tokyo family are caught up in the chaos as millions traverse the country in search of electricity.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Fumiyo Kohinata, Eri Fukatsu, Yuki Izumisawa, Wakana Aoi
Votes: 3,011
58. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-Yeol
Votes: 31,167 | Gross: $1.53M
59. Toilet: A Love Story (2017)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.
Director: Shree Narayan Singh | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Bhumi Pednekar, Divyendu Sharma
Votes: 23,180 | Gross: $1.83M
60. The Upside (2017)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman, Aja Naomi King
Votes: 63,522 | Gross: $108.25M
61. Viceroy's House (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi
Votes: 8,556 | Gross: $1.11M
62. The Villainess (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female assassin leaves a trail of bodies behind her as she seeks revenge.
Director: Jung Byung-gil | Stars: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun, Sung Jun, Kim Seo-hyeong
Votes: 16,783 | Gross: $0.03M
63. What a Wonderful Family (2017)
113 min | Comedy
In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with ... See full summary »
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Shôzô Hayashiya
Votes: 781
64. Wished (2017)
110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man's many wishes come true, only to realize what he's wanted the most has been in front of him all along.
Director: Dayyan Eng | Stars: Yu Xia, Ni Yan, Victoria Song, Binlong Pan
Votes: 157
65. You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
Director: Giddens Ko | Stars: Kai Ko, Michelle Chen, Shao-Wen Hao, Owodog
Votes: 11,576
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