A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.
Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.
What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take in answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”), industrial collapse (“Way Home”), low birth rates and diversity in families (“A Making-Of”), and insomnia (“The Sleep”).
Ten Years Myanmar, an omnibus film depicting a dystopian future 10 years later, tells five stories by five directors.
A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
Jack Ryan is reluctantly pulled back into espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy. Racing against time, he joins CIA allies Mike November & James Greer and sharp MI6 officer Emma Marlowe to battle a rogue black-ops unit in a high-stakes, deeply personal fight.
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Catherine Chau
Office Lady (segment "Dialect")
Wang Hongwei
Cheung Kwan-Cheung (segment "Extras")
Sam Leung Kin-Ping
Taxi Driver - Father (segment "Dialect")
Courtney Wu
Hairy (segment "Extras")
Liu Kai-Chi
Sam (segment "Local Egg")
Ng Siu-Hin
Amos Au-Yeung (segment "Self-immolator")
Neo Yau
Marco (segment "Self-immolator")
Kenneth Cheung Moon-Yuen
Graham Kan (segment "Self-immolator")
Ben Yuen Foo-Wah
Bruce Ngai (segment "Self-immolator")
Peter Chan Bei-Dak
Peter (segment "Extras")
Brenda Chan Kwai-Fan
Sammy Chan (segment "Self-immolator")
Paco Wong Hing-Nam
Cheung (segment "Local Egg")