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Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories.
England | 111 minutes
We are excited to open the Festival with the latest work by master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin. Winner of the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is set in ninth-century China and centers on Nie Yinniang (played b...
Taiwan | 105
The Taiwanese New Cinema movement of the 1980s and '90s captured the imaginations of audiences and filmmakers worldwide. This comprehensive documentary features interviews with leading critics, curators and filmmakers mixed with glorious archival ...
Taiwan | 109
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s beautiful fourth feature-length film follows three bored teenagers who move from the small island of Fengkuei to the port of Kaohsiung. Elegantly recalling the excitement, confusion, anxiety and directionless possibilities of you...
Taiwan | 100
Center Stage tells the tragic story of silent film star Ruan Ling-yu, one of the most beloved performers in Chinese cinema, played by Maggie Cheung in a magisterial performance that garnered her the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for Best Actress. E...
Hong Kong | 148
The lives of a killer who hears voices and the doctor who treats him mingle compellingly in this clever psychological thriller starring two of the region's hottest actors. Building to an unrelenting face-off between doctor and patient in an enclos...
Hong Kong | 99
Inspired by the rousing true story of Hong Kong's first youth league baseball team, formed in 1984, Weeds on Fire has an independent spirit that successfully blends a touching depiction of the highs and lows of friendship with a buoyant underdog t...
Hong Kong | 92
Paying moving tribute to the millions of faceless people who make up the background of countless Chinese movies, director Derek Yee (The Great Magician, HKC 2012) tells a multi-strand story of several aspiring actors trying to make it in China's e...
China/Hong Kong | 135
Sensual and atmospheric, Rouge tells the story of Fleur (Anita Mui) and Chen (Leslie Cheung), star-crossed lovers who meet in a brothel in 1930s Hong Kong and make a tragic pact when their relationship is refused recognition by Chen's parents. The...
Hong Kong | 93
An unsolved strangulation from 1995 has present-day ramifications for Xiaomai (internationally known model Angelababy) in Hong Kong director Chan's mainland-set mystery-thriller. A purple scarf sets off a chain of memories for the young woman who ...
China/Hong Kong | 126
In this heartwarming drama, Yuk is a young short-order cook, surly and self-involved, who will find his life transformed through a new job and an unexpected friendship with an older woman he calls Aunt Fanny. Representing two generations of Hong K...
Hong Kong/China | 113
With a dreamy interweaving of past and present, Sylvia Chang's Taiwan-set drama tells the story of two siblings who were separated at a young age. The moving and powerful story behind this separation and its ramifications for the two protagonists ...
Hong Kong/Taiwan | 119
It’s a non-stop battle between an injured criminal mastermind and several police officers on the post-op ward of a large Hong Kong hospital in Johnnie To’s latest action-packed extravaganza starring the formidable Louis Koo. Featuring a tour-de-fo...
Hong Kong/China | 88
'A Fantastic Woman' is directed by Sebastián Lelio and stars Daniela Vega as a young trans woman struggling with suspicion and mistrust following the unexpected death of her older lover.
Chile/USA/Germany/Spain | 104
Directed by Paolo Virzì, winner of the 2017 David di Donatello Best Director Award, 'The Leisure Seeker' stars Academy Award-winner® Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe- winner® Donald Sutherland.
Italy/France | 112
Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation.
United States | Fiction Feature | 96
In a classic adventure tale worthy of Mark Twain, a down-on-his-luck fisherman and a young man bent on achieving an impossible dream make their way down the waterways of a mythical American South with the help of a succession of colorful strangers.
USA | Fiction Feature | 98
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved, made generations of fans fall in love with her—and the sound of her voice.
USA | Documentary | 95
A family tragicomedy depicting the inevitable collision that ensues when Ki Woo, the eldest son in a family of four unemployed adults, is introduced to the wealthy Park family for a well-paid tutoring job.
South Korea | 131
The Report is a riveting thriller based on actual events, in which idealistic staffer Daniel J. Jones is tasked by his boss Senator Dianne Feinstein to lead an investigation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program
USA | Fiction Feature | 120
