These 5 heart-wrenching stories provide insights on how the disfranchised are sent on a downward spiral to a limbo where everything could possibly go awry.
GOOD MORNING, TAIPEI (OLD WAVE NEW EDGE Special Screening)
LEE Hsing’s 1979 mandarin classic capitalizes on the pop culture and melodrama, heralding a transition to what is considered later the first New Wave in Taiwanese Cinema.
Screenplay Competition
The return of Asian American International Screenplay Competition to discover the next classic.
THE TRAIL FROM XINJIANG
Hoping for a better materialistic life, three men leave home as little children with acquaintances to the eastern metropolises, but now end up under the one identity – thieves.
SHAYA
After a tribal Pakistani family is sent to live in Los Angeles as refugees, a young boy is forced to become the patriarch of his family.
DAWN
Two strangers may have more in common than they think do. After Tye detects what he considers to be a racist glance from another passenger on the evening train home, a confrontation ensues.
BEYOND THE MAT
Two high school seniors put their friendship on the line to win the state wrestling championships.