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- Once famous for his quick blade, a retired assassin can no longer earn a living with his cut-throat skills. Summoned again, he partners with his chauffeur to carry out special missions - fullfilling the wishes of old people looking to kill themselves. When commissioned by a young girl who has been deserted by her parents and lover, the "Elderly's Angel" squad finds an arresting way to complete its task.
- Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a worthy opponent in Omura, an up-and-coming wunderkind who is trying to escape his violent past. The men's fight for redemption culminates in a climatic match brimming with raw, testosterone-fueled emotions. Upholding the Rocky Balboa spirit of learning to get hit and keep moving forward, Underdog is a tough, uncompromising epic that deserves a spot in the pantheon of great boxing films.
- One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a "star" for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui's tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director's idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
- In the woods of Inner Mongolia, Linzi and his older brother Tutu earn a meagre living as lumberjacks. Their difficult, but peaceful lives are upended when they develop an intense rivalry over a local widow and reckless deforestation threaten their homeland. Featuring gorgeous cinematography by Mark Lee Ping-Bing and a moving score by Lim Giong, Anima is an exquisite and timely cautionary tale that will spark debates about choosing rapid economic development over sustainable and responsible consumption.
- Living quietly in the mountains, a young girl humiliated by her classmates is eager to go find her father in the city. Her plan is wrecked when the travel money fetched by her good friend is accidentally lost. Unable to repay the loan, and without hope of seeing their parents, the girls take refuge in the pond, where they feel safe and warm, as if returned to their mother's womb. Shot with naturalistic cinematography, Qi Rui's directorial debut is imbued with a lyrical tone and sympathetic tenderness reminiscent of Kiarostami's cinema.
- A gritty, hardhitting boxing saga about the trials and tribulations of Suenaga, a former boxing champion suffering from ennui after a fall from grace. Struggling to survive, he accepts an invitation to an exhibition match against a comedian, who takes up boxing as a publicity stunt to resuscitate his career. The stakes may seem low to those watching on the sidelines, but for the two men, victory is a matter of life and death.
- High in the Tibetan Himalayas, two families of yak herders battle against the elements to bring the herd home safely. When a blinding snowstorm sends them off course, they face a series of impossible decisions if they are to survive. The stunning locations are accentuated by stark black and white photography that imbues Lost with a timeless quality. Produced by Pema Tseden, Lotan's film excels as both a breathless survival thriller and heart breaking eulogy to a disappearing way of life.
- Or is every day of life an event when one reaches 90, like the farmer, Willi Dettert, who anchors this beautiful reflective piece on the joys of life itself. Despite the impairments of age, Willi holds on fiercely to his independence among his chickens and plants, and in the company of his cat. Visitors come but we are caught up most in the slow, simple rhapsodies of everyday life itself that appear all the more precious with the sense that they might, fade away at any time?
- A raven-black comedy reflecting the aberrant political realities of South Korea. Modeled after real-life extreme right-wing groups, the film follows two men - one a teenager who attacks the democratization movement as a "keyboard warrior", and the other a diehard anti-Communist "patriotic senior citizen." Brought together by chance (fate?), the surrogate grandpa-grandson pair launches bizarre protests against North Korea "sympathizers and spies," ending up with unexpected consequences. But life's absurdities don't stop there.
- Four college friends in Japan find meaning through basketball as classes bore them, raising questions about their suspended youth.
- The story tracks the unhealthy and abusive relationship between an unnamed man and his wife in the days following his return to north eastern Tangshan. He's coming back to her as a wanted fugitive for a series of rapes and murders.
- Stanley Kwan examines queer themes in Chinese film for this insightful documentary, produced for the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series. Using film clips, personal recollections, and interviews with film luminaries (including Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Leslie Cheung), Kwan demonstrates how Chinese cinema has challenged gender norms for years, while asserting his own sexuality in a poignant conversation with his mother.