Halcyon Dreams
A group of interconnected individuals are on a journey of various 'states' of heaven, hell and purgatory to rediscover their lost childhood dreams and aspirations.
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Garak Market Revolution
Premiered at the Jeonju Film Festival 2016 – Korea Cinemascape. One of the example of the vitality of the young Korean Cinema, Garak Market Revolution gives a delicate and funny insight of modern South Korea, with a hopeful social message. Young Doo-soo works at the popular Garak Market, while lying to his parents, saying he has a regular job in a company. His boss makes him discover his potential for Korean traditional chess, that Doo-soo uses it for gambling. Yet he has a goal : help the poorest people of his neighborhood, boosted by his girlfriend who is involved into social activism. Will Doo-soo manage to change his life, or even… start a revolution?
Strike Night
A glacial winter night. Kim undertakes by foot the last miles of a journey that started in North Korea. He's going to Marie's house but gets lost on the way.
The Song of the Tree
The film tells about the life and tragedy of the Kyrgyz village, it focuses on simple young guy. Being expelled from his native village, he takes away the daughter of a local lord ("bai" in Kyrgyz language) with him, but is overtaken and beaten almost to death. He was destined to find himself and his fate, in order to reunite his people again.
Kök Börü: Game of the Tough
Malsat, a famous professional Kök Börü player gets expelled from a champion team for refusing to play on an injured horse. Upon returning to his native village, he finds out that his villagers' land is in danger. He decides to assemble a team from non-professional players and participate in the country's most prestigious Kök Börü Championship Cup.
Sun Flower
When Xiangyang was ten years old, his grandmother passed away, and he went to live with his father. Father and son used to be strangers but now they gradually get along very well. In order to make his family lead a better life, father goes away from home to find work. Xiangyang was misunderstood by his stepmother, and he left home to find his father. While his father died in a Mine and Xiangyang has to raise the poor family.
The Escort
When Eric (Kevin Leslie) pays Veronica (Olivia Moyles), an escort, for sixty minutes of her time, he thinks he will be able to convince her to leave her work. Veronica is no wallflower though, and soon the pair is locked in an intense verbal battle that becomes more personal than either could have envisaged. When the hour is up, both are left feeling that things will never be the same again.
Ma Ma
Ma Ma, an orphan, works for the biggest drug gang in Yangon – the black cat gang. While selling drugs on the street, she dreams of earning enough money to start a new life with her boyfriend. But one day everything falls apart: after her boyfriend dumps her, she finds out that she’s pregnant. And when the gang boss wants her to choose between her own life and the one of her unborn baby, Ma Ma will have to take the most important decision.
A Son of Man
Pipe, a young adolescent from the rich suburbs of Minneapolis, is summoned by his enigmatic father to Ecuador, his father's home country. He will help him in his quest for the greatest treasure on which man has ever laid hands: the lost gold of the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa. Machete in hand, will Pipe become, as his father wishes, the worthy heir of the Fernandez-Salvador family: a true conquistador?
Buttons: A Christmas Tale
Just in time for Christmas this new heartwarming tale begins with two Guardian Angels Dick Van Dyke & Angela Lansbury who are sent to help two orphan children Annabelle & Emily. During the early 1900s tragedy strikes Annabelle’s happy life when she is left to the care of her Mother’s cruel step-sister Mrs. Wentworth (Katie McGrath) who sends her to work at the mill, where she is destined to become a “mill girl”. Annabelle escapes and lives on the streets alone and broken hearted, but with a little help from her Guardian Angel (Dick Van Dyke) Annabelle finds a new home and discovers happiness once again. Now years later during the Great Depression a young orphan Emily is rescued from the streets and given temporary shelter at Belford Hills Hospital. Just when Emily’s future seems dim she is visited by an Angel named Rose (Angela Lansbury), who has come to help Emily fulfill her wish to find a family. On Christmas Eve, through the workings of these two Angels Annabelle and Emily’s stories are woven together into a triumphant & inspiring ending, and each one rediscovers that even in times of darkness, magic and miracles do exist, if you simply remember to believe.
A Cage, Two Birds
Sophie's relationship with her partner is going nowhere, as he's been staying at home aimlessly for two years. As he suddenly leaves her, she is left out alone coping with life with no goal nor motivation. But a random encounter and the entry of a little girl into her life will change that, and regardless of where she came from, she's not willing to give this new source of happiness away too easily...
Emptiness
Lei and Wong arrive in Guayaquil during a dispute in the local Chinatown. Her dream is to go to New York but her future is in the hands of Chang, a despotic mobster who falls madly in love with her. They fight to maintain their integrity while devising an escape, chance determines their destiny.