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- At the end of WWII, a Kazakh soldier saves a German civilian, who gives him a portable projector and some film prints as thanks. For the next 30 years, the soldier stalwartly travels the countryside, showing films in one remote village after another, even as the march of time and modern theaters begin to catch up. He becomes the legendary Tarzan, as the kids call him, who adds his own story to the films. This warm, sentimental and spirited ode to cinema makes you laugh, cry and r remember what made you fall in love with the movies.
- Former pop idol Asada Miyoko plays Satoko, a 50-something club hostess who is lured into the grifting life and becomes lovers with a fellow con artist. After she's betrayed, Satoko flees to Thailand, where she takes up a new identity as a 38-year-old woman named Erica. In her final performance before her death last year, screen legend Kiki Kirin steals the film as Satoko's steelhearted mother - and possibly the person responsible for her daughter's criminal ways. Loosely based on a true story.
- Since the summer of 2019, Hong Kong has been going through one of the toughest periods of its history due to a political movement sparked by the government's controversial extradition bill and the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe. Director and visual artist Anson Mak invites three local artists, who are also parents-performing artist and district councillor Clara Cheung, political comic artist Justin Wong and writer Cheung Yuen-man-to share their stories regarding the notion of fear. The film also examines how art responds to social unrest as well as innermost feelings and thoughts.
- Hong Kong may be best known as an urban jungle, but it's also home to dozens of hiking paths that offer breath-taking views of the city's natural surroundings. In 2012, Andre Blumberg created the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (HK4TUC), a marathon of four Hong Kong ultra-distance trails totalling 298 km over three non-stop days. Chronicling the 2021 edition of what is now one of the hardest ultramarathons on the planet, Robin Lee's riveting feature-length sequel to his award winning sports documentary shows runners facing a gruelling endurance test.
- Welcome to Born Hub, a co-working space designed for ambitious entrepreneurs to build the next sensational startup. Its newest member is Shun, an I.T. expert who just lost both his cushy bank job and his girlfriend. Looking to finally make his dream app, he imagines he'd be teaming up with like-minded aspiring entrepreneurs - only to find his new colleagues being eccentric geeks setting out to ruin rather than help each other. This uniquely Hong Kong take on Silicon Valley starts out as a scathing satire of the cutthroat startup world, but as Shun experiences successes and failures along his journey, In Geek We Trust reveals itself to be an inspiring story about the motivating power of teamwork.
- Rith and Sovan were once childhood buddies, but they've drifted apart after growing up. The former has drifted into crime, while the other has unwillingly become a cop, despite his lifelong ambitions of becoming a pop star. Their best friend's death and a botched diamond heist somehow brought them back together, as the pair embark on a high-octane journey across Cambodia's rural roads in the company of a mobster's moll - and with her violent boyfriend at their heels.
- Big D desperately wants to lose his virginity on his 18th birthday. But when his Christian girlfriend rejects his advances, his best friend Zulie comes up with a plan that ends up going disastrously off the rails. An edgy comedy that depicts young male camaraderie in shocking and extreme ways, this hysterical ride stands above its genre counterparts with an honest approach to juvenile mischief and teen angst.
- A social worker goes on a search for her policeman father who went missing seven years ago in the hills of Hong Kong's Sai Kung peninsula after a hiker finds her father's police badge.
- In the backdrop of the 80's China, villagers in the remote countryside will inevitably move to the big cities to continue their dreams. This is the era China has to "march forward to modernization, the world and the future". During those days, school boy Zu Wei lives his village life happily and contentedly until his dream girl, Ming Xin, finally shows up. One day, when he is doing part time job in post office, he notices a letter of acceptance to university for Ming Xin. He steals it in order not letting his girl go away, which eventually leads to an irreversible regret for the rest of his life. A coming-of-age story with subtlety and melodic flow of images.
- Made with scant resources and homespun technology in 1968, 12 Sisters could still rival any 21st century horror film with its imaginative visual effects, harrowing bloodshed, and a fantastic storyline driven by infanticide, patricide and much more besides. A key figure of the bustling "golden age" of Cambodian cinema between 1960 and 1975, director Ly Bun Yim transformed a traditional Khmer fairy tale into a psychedelic cinematic spectacle. Once considered lost amidst the ravages of the Khmer Rouge, 12 Sisters' second coming only began in 2013 when a 35mm print was rediscovered at the house of Ly's son in California, with the director eventually supervising the digitisation and resynchronisation of its original Khmer-language soundtrack in 2017.
- RE-INVENTING THE TALIBAN brings a uniquely personal perspective to the disturbing rise of radical Islamic fundamentalism within Pakistan. In the documentary, Ms. Obaid, despite warnings of the dangers, visits Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, the center of the MMA alliance, to meet with supporters of the fundamentalist movement, including outspoken leaders and ordinary working people. She also travels to Lahore in the northeastern region of the country where she meets with secular Pakistanis who compose the country's progressive Muslim majority, attends a musical concert sponsored by a political party opposed to the MMA and visits a fashion show where Pakistani women wear chic western clothing. A remarkable portrait of people and places rarely seen.
- SUND@Y SEOUL delves into an aspect of how the medium that is the internet constructs and dismantles people's lives. There are 8 characters of various ages whose lives gradually intertwine in Seoul, revealing their hidden desires and anxieties. A college professor sets up a hidden camera in a motel room in a desperate attempt to keep going his secret love affair with his student. An ordinary housewife takes a stab at making a sexual breakaway through antisocial and free-spirited neighbor. A high-school student falls in love with a call girl. By chance, he also meets the housewife while chatting on line. The call girl makes love regularly to a married cop. SUND@Y SEOUL peers into their lives objectively.
- The film follows Paresh, a government projectionist who travels through remote areas of rural India with his driver Chapal. The two men show educational films to disinterested villagers, while Paresh idolizes the image of a beautiful woman who appears in a surviving fragment of film. On the road, they encounter the pregnant Amina, who is attempting to reach an unspecified border to start a new life with her child. The trio forges an unlikely traveling alliance, just as they are also met with a series of setbacks: their 16mm projector is stolen, and Amina does not possess the documents which will allow her safe passage.
- A schoolteacher re-lives painful childhood memories after discovering concerning information about an at-risk student.
- Cantonese opera actor Gei is about to retire and hopes that his daughter Hiu-lam can continue his career. Hiu-lam, however, abandons her Cantonese opera study and becomes a single mother at a young age. Gei and Hiu-lam find themselves in estrangement even after Little Suen, Hiu-lam's daughter, is born. Hiu-lam understands that it is her father's dream to go back to the stage, but she can only rely on him to take care of her daughter. Chance has come when Gei is invited to perform on stage again, but when he gets injured during practice, Hiu-lam decides to act in her father's place.