Plot: The mayor of a small village invents a fictional character called ‘Rajeh’ which he claims he fights on the outskirts of the village. But some people question the mayor’s stories and call him a bluffer. He admits to his niece, Rima, the truth. He made it all up. Fadlou and Eed carry on a number of crimes and blame Rajeh for it. It’s the time for the annual singles festival where males and females still unmarried get engaged, and it’s when Rajeh appears. People start getting scared forming community watches looking for Rajeh.Read More »

A former martial artist hired to train three wealthy Jordanian sisters finds her “dream job” turning unsettling as the isolated young women are under constant surveillance and show no interest in the sport. Why was she really hired?Read More »

Wheel of Ashes, made in Paris by the under-recognized Americdan director, Peter Emanuel Goldman, is a very powerful film that you will remember long after viewing it. A young man, played by French actor Pierre Clementi,(Belle de Jour) despondently wanders the Paris streets until he meets a young woman , played by the Danish actress Katinka Bo. At the same time he falls under the influence of the Indian Vedanta philosophy, which encourages giving up the world to find God. Pierre retreats to a tiny room near the Bastille to search for God, but ends up almost going insane from the terrible conflict between his search for God, his sexual desire and the attachment to his girlfriend.Read More »

Synopsis
When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend.Read More »

Synopsis:
Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in seven different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It is about the journey of Vai, played by a different indigenous actress in each of the Pacific countries. In each of these Pacific nations ‘vai’ means water.Read More »

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Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. (the title translates as ‘the so-called Caryatides’). As one might expect from Varda, the film is strongly feminist, as she draws out wider symbolic and social implications from these images of women holding up huge weights, both then and now, but it is playfully so. The film becomes much sadder when she talks about Baudelaire, whose Paris these ladies grace; his poetry, success, notoriety; his subsequent physical decline, loss of voice and death. These statues are now so familiar that they are barely noticed, but in mapping the mental geography of a city, foreign viewers will be ravished by this Rameau-soundtracked exploration of a forgotten Paris.Read More »

Shinji, a popular geisha, falls in love with a small coal mine owner Shimada and fights with him against a cruel rich coal mine owner Osuga, who exploits his workers. A lot of action, romance and swordplay.Read More »

A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his rounds.Read More »

Wu Mi Le aka Let It Be is a documentary recording the lives of several old farmers in Houbi Township, Tainan Country. It generated discussion and debate in the Taiwanese civil society about the impact on agriculture due to its membership in the World Trade Organization.

It is selected as one of the Golden Horse’s 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films in 2010.Read More »