The title is an allusion to the Chinese gambling game but the story is a treacherous journey with high stakes and a handsome reward. Three friends brave rugged terrain to escape hardship and persecution, surviving on foraged food and their meagre possessions – a pack of ciggies, the Little Red Book of Chairman Mao and three dices – all the while hounded by Red Guards on patrol. Loyalty, friendship and life are bet against a new beginning in the city where the streets are allegedly paved with gold. The odds are against them and the chance of survival is a row of the dice.
A Chinese New Year legend reimagined as a contemporary coming-of-age story.
A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, the 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi.
A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything... A story about teenagers in Kyrgyzstan.
Let your Host take you on a comedic adventure exploring what it really means to be a gay.
Black Nation is a compelling film that takes a hard, uncompromising look at the state of Black men in America today through the prism of the streets of Detroit and the City's controversial Shrine of the Black Madonna.
Test is a multi-screen work using three animated sequences, a person, a teddy bear and the word TEST, whose synchronicity is continually being broken by the destruction of a tower block.
A family faces a difficult farewell after breakfast one morning.
Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Random, surreal, and unexpected, Video 50 resembles the dream cycle of a dormant TV station after it conscious programming has ceased. Its structure and form anticipate the dissociated sequence of moving images we are now accustomed to encountering on YouTube and social media.
Monay took care of her sisters in running a local bakery. Living with their disabled step-father, she has to be the sole provider for their family by all means...
Accomplishing her late husband's wish of remaining a mysterious neon sign, a depressed middle-aged widow and the neon signmaker's protégé discover surprises and bitterness amidst the city's vanishing glow.
Eine avantgardistische Dokumentation über Stahlproduktion.
‘No one can separate good friends’. Really? The four close friends Olli (Olli P.), Duke, Pat and Vince meet up in their favourite pub in Erfurt, the Motown. Duke wants to emigrate to the USA, but falls in love with Pat's girlfriend. While Olli fancies Vince's girlfriend.
Gesichter des Todes ist ein sogenannter Mondofilm, eine Art Dokumentation, die sich durch explizite Gewaltdarstellung auszeichnet. Der Film zeigt verschiedene, besonders grausame Todesfälle, die dem Zuschauer wie ein Zusammenschnitt verschiedener Nachrichtenausschnitte und Amateuraufnahmen erscheinen. Die meisten Szenen sind allerdings inszeniert.
Origin Country | HK |
Original Language | cn |
Production Countries | Hong Kong |
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