The story follows a Chinese-American girl who falls for a Cantonese opera star against her father's wishes and becomes pregnant.
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
Crazy World gives fans of Wakaliwood movies what they want by playing up the comedy and action just like their movies before.
Neon Gravity is an assassin who realizes that her target, as well as her current reality, are not what they seem. This short film is a futuristic story that takes place in Downtown Miami.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
Gay representation is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy brute is a rare treat.
A film that focuses on an algorithm for a dating app that will bring viewers in for a surprise.
