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- Adopted from the extraordinary true story of Om-Ga. Om-Ga (played by Cheng Ren-Shuo), who is the last hooligan in his hooligan family. Every time some blessing approaches him, he always feels it is his death sentence. Can anyone break this curse? Can it be himself, his friends, his hooligan father, or his mother? On this day when Om-Ga is thinking that his life is coming to the end, a woman named Jing-juan (played by Li Yi-Jie) shows up. It may be the beginning of "a life for a life." However, before the story reaches the end, no one knows the answer to break this curse actually lies in.
- Four Chinese wannabe gangsta rappers imitate their heroes Cypress Hill while trying to break it in censored Chinese music market, not knowing the harsh reality awaiting to betray their dreams.
- A vivid portrait of a generation of Hong Kongers committed to creating a new more democratic Hong Kong. Schoolboy Joshua Wong dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education. Whilst former classmate Ma Jai fights against political oppression on the streets and in the courts. Catapulting the viewer on to the streets of Hong Kong and into the heart of the action. The viewer is confronted with Hong Kong's oppressive heat, stifling humidity and air thick with dissent. Filmed over 18 months this is a kaleidoscopic, visceral experience of their epic struggle.
- HSU Tzu-chiang was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death in a 1995 kidnap and murder case despite the lack of forensic evidence. After a 16-year effort by NGOs, HSU was released with a life sentence in 2016. Now he continues to fight to prove his innocence. Director Chi has been documenting Hsu's story since 2012. The journey brought Chi face-to-face with the shortcomings of human society and inspired his investigation into why the judicial system failed HSU.
- Dragon could not speak before seven, nevertheless, he starts speaking unexpectedly after being bullied by a classmate, and it makes he like bewitched, It turned out he was born the ventriloquial talent. His mother, Ciao is re-imprisoned because of her cheating tendency with fake treasure maps. To make matters worse, she got a strange disease.She hopes Dragon can help improving the truth of the treasure map. In order to find the real treasure, Dragon starts his trip from Taipei to the south with his best friend, encounter the incredible adventure......
- A visual record of long-lasting open wounds, Chinese medical progress, and the disappearance of memory.
- Lucy is happy about her relationship with Hank, but there is a bothersome problem- she is stalked by a ghost, the spirit of Hank's dead ex-girlfriend, Victoria. Victoria interrupts their dates frequently, sometimes even coaches Lucy in bed. Hank is a stiff-necked non-believer. He never buys any complaint from Lucy about the ghost Victoria. However, when Lucy has been tortured for a while and finally collapses, Hank has to go on a trip to save Lucy, with some weird religious treatments.
- Indian society calls them 'born criminals.' They call themselves 'born actors.' And they are fighting back - against police brutality, discrimination and history.
- A dream caught in the light of a film projector is literally an out-of-body experience that awaits you in this melancholy and hypnotically beautiful Thai film about a cinema's last days. Rit has been a projectionist for 25 years, and when the cinema closes he stays on in the increasingly dilapidated premises. The heavy and humid Asian climate and the suggestions of something supernatural, together with its Buddhist philosophy about decay and transformation, makes 'Phantom of Illumination' an extraordinary film about film.
- Li Hong Shan's wife died in a car accident. One year later, he suddenly receives a message from his dead wife. Li vows to save his wife's life through this time transcending WIFI signal, but ends up uncovering a bigger conspiracy behind.
- A super-loud singer is losing his voice due to his overuse of a super-loud voice-drug. Will a super-soft singer be able to help him somehow?
- This is a collection of three films by emerging Taiwanese directors all revolving around the theme of strong, young women involved in mayhem of some sort. In all of them the theme of alienation within the crowded streets of Taiwan runs strong. "Queen of the Bench" (Yao-Ting Wen dir.) Li Li is an extra who longs for her big break as an actress. In the meantime she spends much of her time shoplifting and trying to find creative ways to break into the big time. After pestering a director and ambushing him in the parking lot to get a part, she gets the call and shows up ready to be a star. Will this really be her chance or is she being exploited? "My Own Personal Gun" (Jing-Jie Lin dir.) Ah-Tsai is wasting her life with drugs, hanging out with losers and small time crooks. One day she passes out in front of a young cop who falls for her in a big way. He makes excuses to run into her and she doctors his drink. He wakes up to find she has stolen his gun and she leads him on a wild goos chase to retrieve it. While he runs all over the city looking for it, the gun is still in her possession. Will she use it to spiral even further down into oblivion? "A Dog from Hong Kong" (Ying-Yu Chan dir.) A recent Immigrant from HK brings along his pet doggy who promptly becomes lost. He is heart-broken and sets up fliers everywhere to find him. In the mean time, two women find the little pup and take him in. When one of the girls meets the owner and sees his fliers, she decides to play a trick on him. She and her friend dye the dog a different color and ask him to take care of it for awhile. What will happen if he discovers the trick?
- Five-year old Morrison decides to take matters into his own hands, when he believes his new-born sister is about to take his place.
- In Taiwan, officially, each year there is an average of 400 cases involving sexual exploitation of underage girls. Out of those cases, an average of 130 girls and a few boys are placed in rehabilitation correctional facilities for one to three years, during the peak of their adolescence, before allowing them to return to normal society. This is their story.
- Ted marries a Thai bar girl but when his money runs out, the marriage ends and he returns to the UK destitute, having learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money you lose everything.
- Wan discovers her special ability to dive and stay under deep sea. She meets Tan, a photographer whom she eventually falls in love. Then Wan soon realizes that her new-found powers come with a price.
- A female university graduate is searching for a job in Tokyo, but her lack of interviewing skills is failing her. A friend introduces her to a cabaret club in Roppongi, Tokyo called Club Honey. She undergoes a work trial there. There are many women working there and many have personal problems and challenges. The girl begins working there and finds out the job is not exactly as she had first imagined. She then receives a letter from a company at which she had interviewed.
- Access to the Danger Zone is a film narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis about victims of war and their need for humanitarian aid. It describes the difficulties and dangers humanitarian organizations face in trying to provide help in the most dangerous places on earth.
- For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. His oldest son, Ah Hui, is an aimless slacker with no plans for the future. His younger son, Ah Ming, is musically talented but physically handicapped and so has developed an eccentric and closed personality, raising pigeons as a way to escape social interaction. One day, Ah Hui and Ah Gou find out that the two doors of their local temple, with door gods painted, are in fact antiques of great value. They steal the doors and sell them to a dealer in stolen artifacts. Excited with the payment they receive, they start looking for other opportunities to steal more goods. However, the next time Ah Gou visits the dealer, he discovers him lying on the floor. Just as Gou is picking up the gun that he has found next to the body, the police arrive. In a panic, he takes the gun with him and runs away. Ah Long has won round-trip tickets to New York City. He and his wife, along with a few other friends, travel in small tour group to Manhattan. When they are all having a meal in a restaurant, they discover the stolen doors being used as decoration. They negotiate with the owner and successfully buy the doors back. Meanwhile, Ah Gou and Ah Hui are desperately fleeing, finally hiding in Ah Ming's pigeon coop. Ultimately, to the sound of Ah long and the other tour group members' cheerful singing under the bright lights of New York City, there is a final shootout between the police, Ah Gou, and Ah Hui on the rooftop in Taipei.
- Two young women, Kylene and Natasha, are on their journey to compete in 'The Arnolds', a bodybuilding competition held in Australia. An inspiring story of two friends involved in a controversial sport.
- Fifteen years after his documentary A, which focused on the dangerous Aum cult and the illegitimate actions of Japanese police, Mori Tatsuya returns to the format and examines the work of composer Samuragochi Mamoru who is reportedly building a reputation and repertoire based on plagiarizing the works of others. The film focuses on the claims against the man, the nature of truth and whether society is too black and white.
- Si-hyeon has synesthesia and sees sounds as colors due to the symptom. Because of the neurological phenomena, Si-hyeon cannot bear listening to music nor singing. However, she hears a certain melody in her dreams every night and tries to find a past related to the melody. The music movie delivers such tense dramatic story through Si-hyeon's experience.
- In a southwestern Taiwan oyster-farming village whose land keeps on subsiding, preparations for the King Boat Festival are proceeding. Shengji, an almost 30-year-old man, returns to his hometown he left several years ago. He assumes an air of superiority and behaves like a prosperous businessman in an ostentatious manner. While he disguises his fragile sense of self in front of his stubborn father, who has spent all his life raising oysters, his childhood friend is coveting his "financial success" and plans to make a fortune. The tide being receding, people in the small oyster-farming village are wearing masks that they are unable to take off. Ohong Village, a story of returning, reunion and reconnection, portrays people trapped between the stagnated urban world and their rural family they are estranged from.
- Israel is governed by Orthodox civil law and yet hosts the world's biggest gay pride. Is this a cynical marketing ploy or a political awakening?.
- Far from home, 17-year-old Ying Ling practices for her examination to become a mortician at one of China's largest funeral homes. The everyday routine of this unusual occupation also serves up both humorous and life affirming moments.
- Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.
- Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail. An treats her like a sister, embracing her tortured soul. When they are unhappy, they dance on the pier. Their dancing steps swing like small boats in the harbor, driving away all the depression. Someday, a puppet show was performed on the pier. They saw a fisherman, Lao-Yao, playing a puppet. Through Lao-Yao who suffers from autism, Ah Yu found herself tangled in a feeling as deep as the ocean.
- Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko meets rich Japanese man Aniki. From him, Sachiko gets encouragement.
- After filming political footage, a Myanmar filmmaker must flee his country. As refugee amongst refugees in Thailand, his camera becomes the most important tool to survive and overcome the many days away from home.
- Two girls in the bloom of youth meet at a vocational training program. Afterwards, their lives move in completely different directions. They are both growing up in broken homes. Pei searches for hope in love, while Chen struggles to avoid her parents' fate. As they approach the age of 18, the undercurrents of their lives surface, nearly overwhelming them. This is a story of abandonment, but also of love and courage. Although the story comes from a remote area of Taiwan, it asks a question pondered the world over: how can an unloved life find a strength of her own?
- Ann and Mimi come across A-kai, a guy waiting for a mysterious on-call work. They hit it off right away. Yet, not getting what they want, they end up getting involved in a crime due to circumstances beyond their control.
- At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
- A young girl informs her father she's been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path...
- From famed Mega Man creator creator Keiji Inafune comes Mighty No. 9, a side-scrolling action game that takes the best aspects of the 8- and 16-bit era classics you know and love, and transforms them with modern tech and fresh mechanics into something fresh and amazing.
- The spirit of a deceased mother takes over her son's body in order to oversee the task of replanting a very important tree, only after which it will be able to leave the earthly limits.
- A down and out man and his daughter live in an illegal hovel. The two live a happy peaceful life until the authorities intervene when the child reaches school age.
- The life and healing practices of a tribe in the Himalayas in north-western Nepal.
- Gawkish Kogure passively allows himself to be cursed by the boss of the paperclip factory where he works as a paperclip bender. One day, he finds a butterfly in his small flat and he allows the insect to fly to freedom. On another day, he finds a trespassing woman speaking strangely in his flat. He lets her stay, just like her father who turns up. In Kogure's imagination, the woman is a transformation of the butterfly and he allows a series of things to happen because of it.
- A man sentenced death for stealing two cars looks to avoid execution in China.
- Three young adults on a journey. Mission: to return an old wall clock to their grandmother. A story about a small mission that becomes a great journey.
- Before the premiere of 'Metamorphosis', Two women fell in love with the same actor who is kidnapped by a helpless aboriginal father. They must rescue their lovers at the soonest.
- It is the year 2066, and the sole survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country's traumatic history and the events that led to the rise and collapse of this cult. As he reminiscences, ghosts from 2014 and the years before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this hybrid film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed both in Singapore's physical landscape, as well as its collective unconscious. The narrative voice-over reflects on that which is forgotten, subjective, and polymorphic in history. This unusual film is a thoughtful look at the legacy and future of this strange Southeast Asian island.
- A young boy, a janitor at his school and a substitute teachers come together in unexpected ways as the Janitor, who is really a hit-man, is ordered to kidnap the boy to lure out his gang member father.
- Taiwan's earliest modern poetry group-LE MOULIN-emerged in the 1930s, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Part of the wave of modernist literature and avant garde thinking sweeping Asia from the West, what impact did these young Taiwanese poets have, and what questions did they pose?