Floating City
Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yim Ho
Actors: Aaron Kwok, Annie Liu, Charlie Yeung, Cherry Ngan, David Peatfield, Hin-Wai Au, Josie Ho, Pau Hei-Ching
Himalaya
As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community’s allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and…
Light in the Piazza
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the…
Excision
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker…
Breakthrough
Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in…
The Lobster’s Cry
A Russian soldier returns from war service in Chechnya. Though greeted warmly by his family, he seems unable to adjust.
Warrior
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the…
My Father’s Glory
French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.