Social & External
The people behind it
Chloe Maayan
Actress
Zhao Yingbo
Actor
In the south of Yunnan, there are mountains, rivers, ancient trees, and tea gardens. The simple beliefs of the local Bulang people are the basis for maintaining their homeland and the manifestation of their strength. A film based on the spiritual connotation of the Bulang people's reverence and protection of nature in the Bulang mountain village of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.
A film student is reluctant to take on the task of creating storyboards after having been pressured into it by his director's friend.
In a near-future ruled by VR intimacy, a lonely man's attempt to save his relationship backfires when hackers take control of his device, dragging him into absurd and terrifying chaos.
An amateur astronomer discovers a strange new star in the sky that leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy to control humanity by exploiting its addiction to technology.
She was born in a cave, more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams of her dead mother calling her home – to the cave.
Nohemí and Mary are two women resisting structural violence in Ciudad Juárez. United by pain and hope, both mothers find inspiration to move their families forward. The dragonfly, a symbol they share, embodies their resilience and capacity for change.
The Toronto Police is helping grieving widow Liz Brown solve her husband's death. On the case is its newest recruit, Sherlock the AI.
Olivia Scanie is unexpectedly hurled into a 'crime' that has not yet happened. Helping her through the case is the Toronto Police's newest recruit, Sherlock the AI.
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
In the near future, a struggling single mother living out of her car with her young daughter sees a life-changing opportunity when a global online retail giant launches a hiring initiative for people in need. After an unexpected setback threatens her chances, she's offered an experimental alternative that could secure her future, but at a cost she never anticipated.
In Ratanakiri, a province in the northeast of Cambodia, Khlek, an 11-year-old boy, lives on the rubber plantation where his parents work. Coming from the Kreung ethnic minority, they are tappers.
In a future ruled by algorithms, Sam (22), a young architect, undergoes a job interview with a strict AI interviewer. A series of failed interviews leaves him trapped within algorithmic standards that grow increasingly absurd and inhuman. In his efforts to adapt to the system, Sam is forced to change his way of thinking and suppress his humanity, until he gradually loses his sense of self.
Disillusioned by the society's over reliance on certain technologies, Aaron Adler vows to expose them to the people. His target: the Toronto Police's newest recruit, Sherlock the AI.
The local Art Gallery's prized painting has just been stolen and detective Leah Strade is on the case. In a unique experiment, she is joined by the Toronto Police's newest recruit, Sherlock the AI.
A meticulous perfectionist discovers "UNDO," a miraculous skincare cream that allows them to edit their face like a digital image, but when the "REDO" function glitches, they are plunged into a visceral nightmare of generative disfigurement.
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
When schoolboy Wang Bao discovers a magical gourd that can instantly grant his every wish, the awkward child suddenly becomes a hero amongst his curious classmates. When the gourd proves more of a burden than a blessing and the boy decides to get rid of it, he quickly discovers that's easier said than done.
A traumatized young man with physical abnormalities is forced to join a mysterious bureau to confront a disaster spreading across the earth caused by an unknown creature. He embarks on an adventure uncovering mysteries about his life.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
