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Set in 1985 post-war Vietnam, Khang moves to Saigon after securing a position to translate “The Little Prince.” Due to his family connections, Khang’s life under the new regime is secure. But everything changes when he meets Ky Nam, a reserved older widow from the defeated South who carries the weight of unspoken grief. Against
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi transforms a simple mishap into a riveting allegory of resistance. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences, as an everyday collision between two strangers spirals into a dangerous entanglement with bureaucracy, surveillance, and state power. With his characteristic blend of realism and suspense,
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FWENDS follows two thirty-somethings adrift in modern Sydney. Em, a junior lawyer, endures an abusive workplace just to afford her sky-high rent, while Jessie, a former stripper and world traveler, wrestles with the void left by a long-term breakup. What begins as a casual reunion unfolds into a spontaneous weekend of city wanderings and late-night
CLIMBING FOR LIFE, the newest work from acclaimed filmmaker Junji Sakamoto, is an inspiring biopic of pioneering Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei. In 1975, Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest and later the first to complete the Seven Summits, conquering the highest peaks on every continent and redefining what women could achieve in
BOSS is a riotous action-comedy that flips the gangster genre on its head. Opening with a flashback to their swaggering youth—when any of them could have become the next don—the film leaps to the present, where the once-fearsome crew now faces middle age, fading street cred, and mundane dreams like opening a Korean-Chinese food franchise.
BEFORE THE BRIGHT DAY, the poignant directorial debut of emerging Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Han Tsao, captures a young man’s turbulent coming-of-age against the backdrop of the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Chou, labeled a “B-class loser” by his teacher, yearns for more than his uneventful adolescence—especially with Min, the girl he likes, placed in the elite A-class.
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