New American Perspectives
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what''s left of society into chaos.…
Spotlight on Korea
Myung-deuk (Jung Woo) and Dong-hyeok (Kim Dae-myung) are police crime investigators who collect bribes on the side--the former to cover mounting medical bills for his sick daughter, while the latter…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on China
The year is 1999, three 18-year-old boys, Wang Zha, Chengyong and Pao Pao, accidentally fall into a toxic kaleidoscope lake. When they dry off, they realize they can travel back…
Closing Night Film, Spotlight on Japan
During the late Edo period, legendary author Bakin spent an epic 28 years writing his masterpiece Nanso Hatomi Hakkenden one of Japan’s greatest works. HAKKENDEN ambitiously follows the master Bakin…
Pacific Showcase
Michael Jonathan’s debut feature is an action-filled account of the 1864 battle of Ōrākau where a small group of disparate Māori, vastly outnumbered by British soldiers, went to war to…
Spotlight on Hong Kong
From twin actor/directors Albert and Herbert Leung comes this drama about a washed-up stunt choreographer named Lee Sam, who makes a last go of it when asked by a veteran…
Spotlight on Japan
Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago during the Heian period, there was a special bureau of magicians whose school trained students to become masters who would then…