THE FIRST SLAM DUNK Tram Screening (Japanese Version)
124 Minutes
Slam Dunk is a shonen manga by Takehiko Inoue that was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990, issue No. 42, to 1996, issue No. 27. The series, which depicts the personal growth of several high school basketball players, has sold more than 120 million copies in Japan. It has inspired numerous boys and girls to get into basketball. An anime series (that ran from October 1993 to March 1996), several video games, and other media based on the manga have also been produced. The Slam Dunk Scholarship was established in 2006 to support young basketball players in Japan. In 2018, a new, 20-volume shinsoban edition with all new cover illustrations was published, with volume divisions at each milestone in the story. An artwork compilation, PLUS / SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2, was released in 2020 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series’ launch.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Can. Vesrion)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Eng. Version)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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(MX4D) Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Cantonese Version)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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(MX4D) Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (English Version)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Can. Vesrion)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Eng. Version)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (English Vesrion IMAX With Laser)
140 Minutes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
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The Roundup: No Way Out
105 Minutes
Detective Ma Seok-do joins the Metropolitan Investigation Team led by Jang Tae-soo, to eradicate Joo-Seong cheol, the son of a rich business family who forms an alliance with some Japanese gangsters to commit heinous crimes across Korea.
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
123 Minutes
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows the story of US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean efforts to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban can hunt them down.
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Little Mermaid
135 Minutes
“The Little Mermaid,” visionary filmmaker Rob Marshall’s live-action reimagining of the studio’s Oscar®-winning animated musical classic, opens exclusively in theaters May 25, 2023. “The Little Mermaid” is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
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Fast X
141 Minutes
The end of the road begins.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
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(MX4D) Fast X
141 Minutes
The end of the road begins.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
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Fast X
141 Minutes
The end of the road begins.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
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Fast X (IMAX With Laser)
141 Minutes
The end of the road begins.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they’ve ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who’s fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.
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Fate
95 Minutes
Delivery truck driver, Uncle Chuen, works hard every day to put food on the table. His only son, Chong, is only interested in photography. Uncle Chuen doesn’t like how Chong idles his days away doing nothing, and this is a frequent flashpoint between the two. One time during an argument, Uncle Chuen slapped Chong on the face, and Chong ran out of the house, but didn’t forsee that Chong would be hit unexpectedly by a car. Uncle Chuen and his wife rushed to the hospital, but there was no way to save him. The director of organ donation at the hospital found out that Chong had registered as an organ donor before he died. Although Uncle Chuen still could not accept his son’s death, he pushed through the pain to fulfil his son’s dying wish, to leave a gift to those still alive.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
150 Minutes
In Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
150 Minutes
In Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
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A City of Sadness (4K Digital Version)
159 Minutes
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
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Marry My Dead Body
129 Minutes
Ming-Han is a passionate policeman in a muscular shape. One day, in the process of arresting a criminal with his beautiful colleague - Zi-Qing, Ming-Han accidentally picks up a red envelope, and a group of people suddenly jumps out to call him "son in law". They ask him to get married with their dead child, who is a dead guy! It is impossible for Ming-Han to accept this decision. However, he doesn't expect to be in misfortune since then. What is even more terrifying is that he begins to see his ghost husband Mao-Mao that scares Ming-Han to death. Therefore, Ming-Han visits a great master to get rid of Mao-Mao. The master tells him that he must get married to Mao-Mao and check Mao-Mao's wish lists; otherwise, Mao-Mao will follow him forever. To get rid of Mao-Mao, Ming-Han has no choice but to help him fulfill all his wishes; at the same time, Mao-Mao also acts like Ming-Han’s partner to help him with the investigation of drug smuggling. A fantasy journey full of laughter and tears betw
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Mad Fate
109 Minutes
On a rainy evening, a fortune telling master (Gordon LAM) tries to help a prostitute avert certain death, but fate has plans of its own. He arrives at the prostitute’s home just a few minutes too late, watching her take her last breath while Siu Tung (Lokman@MIRROR) stares at her corpse with creepy fascination. When he foretells that Siu Tung will soon commit murder, the Master believes that he has the power to change the inevitable. On the contrary, the veteran detective (Berg NG) who once sent Siu Tung to jail for brutally killing a cat believes that Siu Tong is a born psychopath whose bloodthirst cannot be stopped.
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2D The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Cantonese Version)
93 Minutes
Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (collaborators on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies) from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Minions: The Rise of Gru), the film stars Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.
The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures.
The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures.
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2D The Super Mario Bros. Movie (English Version)
93 Minutes
Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (collaborators on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies) from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Minions: The Rise of Gru), the film stars Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.
The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures.
The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures.
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John Wick: Chapter 4
169 Minutes
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
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The First Slam Dunk (Cantonese Version)
124 Minutes
Slam Dunk is a shonen manga by Takehiko Inoue that was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990, issue No. 42, to 1996, issue No. 27. The series, which depicts the personal growth of several high school basketball players, has sold more than 120 million copies in Japan. It has inspired numerous boys and girls to get into basketball. An anime series (that ran from October 1993 to March 1996), several video games, and other media based on the manga have also been produced. The Slam Dunk Scholarship was established in 2006 to support young basketball players in Japan. In 2018, a new, 20-volume shinsoban edition with all new cover illustrations was published, with volume divisions at each milestone in the story. An artwork compilation, PLUS / SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2, was released in 2020 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series’ launch.
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Terence Blanchard's Champion (The MET)
225 Minutes
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Ne?zet-Se?guin takes the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, also reuniting the director-and-choreographer team of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.
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What's Up Connection Critics Choice 2023
120 Minutes
Choice of Eric Tsang:
Part of the boat people community in the fishing village of Po Toi O, Chi Kau-sin (Tse Wai-kit) suddenly wins a free trip to Japan. When he returns home, he realises that he has fallen for a trap set by a multi-national consortium that wants to turn Po Toi O into a commercial centre. To protect their home, the entire Chi family unite to fight the powers that be. As the world had their eyes on Hong Kong on the eve of the 1997 Handover, renowned Japanese indie director Yamamoto Masashi used his signature oddball style to create this unique Hong Kong-Japan co-production. The result is a zany, weird farce that tells a very different kind of good Hong Kong story. Going from the hustle and bustle of Temple Street market to the serenity of Sai Kung’s fishing villages, the film vividly captured the eccentricity of Hong Kong in the middle of its economic boom in the late 80s. Yamamoto has keen observations on the clash between urban development and preservation, while scen
Part of the boat people community in the fishing village of Po Toi O, Chi Kau-sin (Tse Wai-kit) suddenly wins a free trip to Japan. When he returns home, he realises that he has fallen for a trap set by a multi-national consortium that wants to turn Po Toi O into a commercial centre. To protect their home, the entire Chi family unite to fight the powers that be. As the world had their eyes on Hong Kong on the eve of the 1997 Handover, renowned Japanese indie director Yamamoto Masashi used his signature oddball style to create this unique Hong Kong-Japan co-production. The result is a zany, weird farce that tells a very different kind of good Hong Kong story. Going from the hustle and bustle of Temple Street market to the serenity of Sai Kung’s fishing villages, the film vividly captured the eccentricity of Hong Kong in the middle of its economic boom in the late 80s. Yamamoto has keen observations on the clash between urban development and preservation, while scen
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City Critics Choice 2023
64 Minutes
Choice of Matthew Cheng:
During the Weimar Republic era between the two World Wars, Berlin was a city of culture and art. In addition to German Expressionist films, there were also avant-garde animation and urban films. This Berlin urban film is the magnum opus of leading German avant-garde director Walter Ruttmann. Split into five acts, the film presents Berlin from day to night, depicting it as a dynamic city as well as a modern industrial and commercial hub. Recording Berlin’s urban landscape, everyday life and mass entertainment before World War II, the film is also a precious historical document that includes the Anhalter Bahnhof train station and Grand Hotel, which were destroyed by the war. The formal beauty of this poetic documentary plays a modern metropolitan symphony, resulting in a masterpiece that is easily comparable to Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
During the Weimar Republic era between the two World Wars, Berlin was a city of culture and art. In addition to German Expressionist films, there were also avant-garde animation and urban films. This Berlin urban film is the magnum opus of leading German avant-garde director Walter Ruttmann. Split into five acts, the film presents Berlin from day to night, depicting it as a dynamic city as well as a modern industrial and commercial hub. Recording Berlin’s urban landscape, everyday life and mass entertainment before World War II, the film is also a precious historical document that includes the Anhalter Bahnhof train station and Grand Hotel, which were destroyed by the war. The formal beauty of this poetic documentary plays a modern metropolitan symphony, resulting in a masterpiece that is easily comparable to Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
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Good By! Lenin Critics Choice 2023
121 Minutes
DIGITALLY RESTORED
Choice of Matthew Cheng:
Time flies. After the last World War came the Cold War. Berlin was divided into East and West, dividing worlds of socialism and capitalism. Wolfgang Becker’s tragicomedy masterpiece starts with an East German mother falling into a coma after she saw her son arrested at a protest. While she slept, the world changed as the Berlin Wall fell, and the two Germanys became one again. After the mother wakes up, the son creates a world in which East Germany is alive and well to avoid sending her into shock, generating moments that will make viewers laugh and cry. Shot on Karl-Marx-Allee and around Alexanderplatz, the film captures Berlin’s historical and rapid transformation. As Western products, Coca Cola and capitalism swarm into East Berlin like a wave, a period of history ends in optimism. It was time to bid farewell to Lenin, but traces of Ostalgie – or the nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany – remain.
2003 Berlin Internatio
Choice of Matthew Cheng:
Time flies. After the last World War came the Cold War. Berlin was divided into East and West, dividing worlds of socialism and capitalism. Wolfgang Becker’s tragicomedy masterpiece starts with an East German mother falling into a coma after she saw her son arrested at a protest. While she slept, the world changed as the Berlin Wall fell, and the two Germanys became one again. After the mother wakes up, the son creates a world in which East Germany is alive and well to avoid sending her into shock, generating moments that will make viewers laugh and cry. Shot on Karl-Marx-Allee and around Alexanderplatz, the film captures Berlin’s historical and rapid transformation. As Western products, Coca Cola and capitalism swarm into East Berlin like a wave, a period of history ends in optimism. It was time to bid farewell to Lenin, but traces of Ostalgie – or the nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany – remain.
2003 Berlin Internatio
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The Treasure Critics Choice 2023
89 Minutes
Choice of Derek Lam:
Toma's neighbor Adrian has a favor to ask: he's in some money trouble but remembers vaguely that his great-grandfather might have buried some treasure in their family estate before the Communists took power. If Toma can put up the money to hire someone with a professional metal detector, they can all go dig up the treasure and Toma may receive an equal share. Could the adventure allow Toma to play Robin Hood to his young son?
From early successes like 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Police, Adjective (2009), to more recent works like The Whistlers (2019), Corneliu Porumboiu's distinctive brand of deadpan comedy unfolds always as part of a philosophical inquiry into his country's state of affairs and its historical past, however banal or trivial its seeming focus. Here, Toma's treasure hunt takes us on an unexpected tour of Romania's past, reflected by the successive functions of the family estate at different stages of the country's history.
Toma's neighbor Adrian has a favor to ask: he's in some money trouble but remembers vaguely that his great-grandfather might have buried some treasure in their family estate before the Communists took power. If Toma can put up the money to hire someone with a professional metal detector, they can all go dig up the treasure and Toma may receive an equal share. Could the adventure allow Toma to play Robin Hood to his young son?
From early successes like 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Police, Adjective (2009), to more recent works like The Whistlers (2019), Corneliu Porumboiu's distinctive brand of deadpan comedy unfolds always as part of a philosophical inquiry into his country's state of affairs and its historical past, however banal or trivial its seeming focus. Here, Toma's treasure hunt takes us on an unexpected tour of Romania's past, reflected by the successive functions of the family estate at different stages of the country's history.
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Distant Critics Choice 2023
110 Minutes
DIGITALLY RESTORED
Choice of Joyce Yang:
Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan specialises in depicting the emotional black hole that results from clashes between people, as well as those between people and their environments. He has turned his sternness and profoundness into a trademark masterful style. The final instalment of his trilogy of films set in provincial towns, Distant is set in a snow-covered Istanbul as a cold front covers the Bosporus Strait.
Mahmut is a photographer who lives alone. One day, his unemployed cousin Yusuf arrives from the countryside, asking Mahmut for help while he tries to get a job as a sailor. Yusuf’s rural demeanor triggers Mahmut’s sense of urban middle-class superiority. From a condescending perspective, Mahmut looks on from a distance as his cousin mires in failure, unable to change his circumstances. Meanwhile, the camera also sees through Mahmut’s bleak relationships with his ex-wife and his lover. Ceylan’s masterful grip over narrative, camera framing, a
Choice of Joyce Yang:
Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan specialises in depicting the emotional black hole that results from clashes between people, as well as those between people and their environments. He has turned his sternness and profoundness into a trademark masterful style. The final instalment of his trilogy of films set in provincial towns, Distant is set in a snow-covered Istanbul as a cold front covers the Bosporus Strait.
Mahmut is a photographer who lives alone. One day, his unemployed cousin Yusuf arrives from the countryside, asking Mahmut for help while he tries to get a job as a sailor. Yusuf’s rural demeanor triggers Mahmut’s sense of urban middle-class superiority. From a condescending perspective, Mahmut looks on from a distance as his cousin mires in failure, unable to change his circumstances. Meanwhile, the camera also sees through Mahmut’s bleak relationships with his ex-wife and his lover. Ceylan’s masterful grip over narrative, camera framing, a
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Close-Up Critics Choice 2023
98 Minutes
Choice of Ernest Chan:
Hossein Sabzian is an unemployed man in Tehran who happens to look like director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. On a whim, he poses as Makhmalbaf to a woman on the bus, but his little white lie snowballs over time. Wanting to know what it feels like to be a director, he tells the woman’s family that he is making a new film and even borrows money from her son. His eventual capture and conviction led to the creation of Abbas Kiarostami’s masterpiece. Not only did Kiarostami get the court’s permission to film the trial, he also convinced everyone involved to play themselves in the dramatic recreation of the case, creating the perfect hybrid of fact and fiction as well as drama and life that ironically fulfills Hossein’s filmmaking dream. The encounter of the real and fake Makhmalbafs is deliberately stuttered to leave room for the imagination. In addition to boldly breaking the boundary between fact and fiction, the film also reflects class differences in Tehran and depicts th
Hossein Sabzian is an unemployed man in Tehran who happens to look like director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. On a whim, he poses as Makhmalbaf to a woman on the bus, but his little white lie snowballs over time. Wanting to know what it feels like to be a director, he tells the woman’s family that he is making a new film and even borrows money from her son. His eventual capture and conviction led to the creation of Abbas Kiarostami’s masterpiece. Not only did Kiarostami get the court’s permission to film the trial, he also convinced everyone involved to play themselves in the dramatic recreation of the case, creating the perfect hybrid of fact and fiction as well as drama and life that ironically fulfills Hossein’s filmmaking dream. The encounter of the real and fake Makhmalbafs is deliberately stuttered to leave room for the imagination. In addition to boldly breaking the boundary between fact and fiction, the film also reflects class differences in Tehran and depicts th
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Head-On Critics Choice 2023
121 Minutes
Choice of Joyce Yang:
How do Turkish immigrants take root in Germany? And how do they find their roots? With intense emotions of rebirth or self-destruction, characters travel through a maze of cultural identity that sits between foreign land and homeland as they cast themselves into an exile of lust and violence. This is the unique wandering soul of Fatih Akin’s films.
Turkish-German widower Cahit has hit rock bottom, spending his days staring down the bottom of a glass. After attempting suicide by crashing his car into a wall, he meets distressed woman Sibel, who wants to enter a sham marriage with him. Barely able to take care of themselves, these two immigrants exploit each other until they discover true love soaked in blood. Yet, there are still far too many hardships ahead of them.
Set in Hamburg, the first half of the film uses dark humor to trace the couple’s encounter, while the Istanbul-set second half turns intense and gloomy as the tragic fate of depravity and self-destr
How do Turkish immigrants take root in Germany? And how do they find their roots? With intense emotions of rebirth or self-destruction, characters travel through a maze of cultural identity that sits between foreign land and homeland as they cast themselves into an exile of lust and violence. This is the unique wandering soul of Fatih Akin’s films.
Turkish-German widower Cahit has hit rock bottom, spending his days staring down the bottom of a glass. After attempting suicide by crashing his car into a wall, he meets distressed woman Sibel, who wants to enter a sham marriage with him. Barely able to take care of themselves, these two immigrants exploit each other until they discover true love soaked in blood. Yet, there are still far too many hardships ahead of them.
Set in Hamburg, the first half of the film uses dark humor to trace the couple’s encounter, while the Istanbul-set second half turns intense and gloomy as the tragic fate of depravity and self-destr
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Dragon Princess (ICYFC 2023)
78 Minutes
When the Dragon King must give to the Sorcerog his second most valuable possession, he offers up his princess Bristle. This drives Bristle to despair and forces her to flee the family cave. She then embarks on a journey of discovery in the world of humans. Among humans, she learns the meaning of friendship and solidarity – and greed, which seems to eat away at men’s hearts.
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Tales of Franz (ICYFC 2023)
90 Minutes
Based on the book series by the famous Austrian author Christine Nöstlinger, Tales of Franz tells the story of Franz, who has become the school’s common joke because of his “XS” body size. He yearns for advice from influencers like the muscular and manly Hank Haber. Franz is sick of being mocked, not to mention the fact that he is crazily in love with the most beautiful girl in the class. He needs to change so desperately that he even turns a blind eye to his two best friends Gabi and Eduard! Only when Gabi suddenly disappears does Franz realise what a fool he has been! Can he find Gabi and save their precious friendship?
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Little Nicholas - Happy as can be (ICYFC 2023)
85 Minutes
Once upon a time, there was a little boy drawn in black ink. This little boy went off to win the hearts of millions of readers. From the school yard to the beach, from Paris to the countryside, join Little Nicholas with his family and friends for exciting new adventures!
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Yuku and the Himalayan Flower (ICYFC 2023)
65 Minutes
At the top of the highest mountains on earth lives a plant that radiates eternal light – the Himalayan Flower. Yuku goes looking for it to give it to her grandmother, who is seriously ill. She has a long journey ahead, studded with obstacles, including the small bridge of fear, guarded by the wolf! With her ukulele and her songs, Yuku makes friends along the way. They are so precious to embark on the adventure of life.