Film Twi

The documentary focuses on Dai Congyang, a 20-year-old girl with congenital cataracts and semi-blindness. It shows what Dai has been confronted with and how she struggles with the conflicts about her blind boyfriend and her parents who strongly disagree with her relationship. Besides, it witnesses how she gains self-recognition and self-actualization when torn between "to stay at hometown" or "to start up in a bigger city". Back and forth between Wenzhou, Hangzhou and Taizhou, Dai finds herself trapped in a relationship seemed sweet but also full of lies and vanity. In the end, it still remains unknown as to whether Dai chooses to gamble on love or to succumb to her parents and start a new life.

Manfred Wong spins this period tale about the life of imperial eunuch Lau Lou-hay, after the emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City. After saving the life of anti-imperial soldier Wu Chung (Felix Wong Yat-wah), Lau (Max Mok Siu-chung) agrees to help him capture the imperial seal, the symbol of political legitimacy in China at that time. Though both manage to cozy up to General Cheung (Kent Cheng Chuk-see), the guardian of the seal, their plan eventually fails. Wu helps Lau flee from Cheung's clutches and, upon learning that he is a eunuch, makes the lad his 13th wife. At the Wu estate, Lau is forced to deal with more than his share of political intrigue, particularly in dealing with Tak Cheung (Norman Law Man), the lead eunuch in the household.

The Cosmic Twins (Los Gemelos Cósmicos, in Spanish), an animated short film whose protagonists are inspired by sculptures by the artist Jorge Marín, is a multidisciplinary project that combines music, historical and epic stories through the new tools of the 21st century. This initiative incurs a new artistic language, which turns the level of the figurative into the conceptual, transforming the sculptures into animated puppets as a tribute, on the one hand, to the millenary tradition of the wayang kulit (Asian shadow theatre) that represents Hindu mythology, the Ramayama and the Mahabarata and, on the other, the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of Mayan literature. The short film tells the story of the brothers Hun and Vucub Hunahpú, who shake the universe playing ball. The theme of Cosmic Twins is based on one of the passages of the Popol Vuh that delves into the emergence of the world and the creation of man.

The documentary is based on 2 parallel lines: one is Valery Gergiev's trip to Tskhinvali after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and the history of preparing and holding a concert in the destroyed city.The second line is the Maestro's concert activity, rehearsal and staging in London of Wagner's famous tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung", the final part of which is the opera Twilight of the Gods

Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can pinpoint the exact problems with Hiromi's dishes. His name is Tatematsu Ippei, a legendary chef renowned for his work in France once upon a time. After a food poisoning mishap, his fiance Sophie had left him and he cut himself off from the culinary world. Hiromi is engrossed with Ippei's cuisine and asks for lessons. Meanwhile, Sophie, now the wife of the director of a top tableware manufacturer, comes to Japan. Ippei cooks a banquet for her using Hiromi's restaurant as a front. Sophie notices that the food is made by Ippei, her former lover. The two meet and enjoy a short-lived reunion, but go on to live their own separate lives.

Straight to video film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

In the late summer of 1942 Lieutenant Heinrich Sperling and the simple soldier Oskar Baumann meet and become good friends. Together they go through the hell of World War II

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.

Siamak who is a minibus driver decides that he wants to die and chose his birth day to do so. Before that he wants to do all the things which he was wishing to do in his life. But one day he meets a girl which change his life.

The life of Anne of Brittany was an extraordinary adventure of love, betrayal, desperation and jealousy. Married at 14 to King Charles VIII, then seven years later to King Louis XII, she united her Duchy with its historic enemy: France. Throughout her life, Anne, a woman of great intelligence, devoted herself to the administration of her duchy and jealously guarded its autonomy, but in the end her daughter Claude, Anne's heir, was betrothed to Francis of Angoulême, the future Francis I and Brittany was finally absorbed into the kingdom of France.

Follows police detective Mohammad Alavi as he tries to deal with the death of his wife and daughters, and solve the case of a murdered woman.

Everywhere Elva goes, people stare at her. And it´s no wonder, because she turns in circles, stamps her feet and twists her body in every other step. She is thirty years old and has the worst case of Tourette syndrome her doctor has ever seen. At the same time she has excessive amounts of wit and humour, and constantly makes fun of herself. This documentary is made at the point where Elva has reached her limit. Her ticks have grown so powerful she can no longer take care of herself and her little son. Her last chance is a risky brain surgery where electrodes are planted deep in her brain, an operation which is still in the experimental phase for Tourette´s.

Rigo is a law student in LA, wishing to become an immigration lawyer so he can help his dad return to see his parents. His dream comes to an end when his father dies leaving their plans to travel to Mexico and discover his roots. Realizing that his perfect family was not real Rigo decides to hit the road with his best friend Fer in search of his grandparents. Their journey will take them to discover a secret that has long hunted his family.

The main character Kyung-zha has two sons from different men. The elder Chon-nam was born out of wedlock and given to the upbringing of a village old woman, the younger Il-nam - from a lawful husband. One day the brothers meet.

Niam Itani, a filmmaker and former child refugee herself, attempts to reconstruct, document, and even manufacture the meaning of childhood with 9-year-old Khalil, whose family fled Syria to the same small village where Itani's family once took refuge during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s.

Twins, a young man and his sister, live with their mother on their uncle's property. The uncle wants to sell the girl for a bride price of 12 cattle. The boy goes to the city and is able to earn the amount of money needed to purchase his sister's freedom. The purchase becomes an illustration of the price Jesus paid with his death on the cross.

Documentary introducing the origin, development and current situation of puppet and shadow puppet show, and analyzes the artistic characteristics of puppet show in portraying characters through performances such as "Arhat Playing Lion" and "Handling a Horse". Through the performances of "Monkey Brother" and "Turtle and Crane", the proficient skills of shadow puppetry in character portrayal are introduced

Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post narrative collide in a mortal battle for fun to public.

Live recording of the Atelier game series celebration show at the Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO on 29th August 2013. Featuring the talents of Haruka Shimotsuki, ACRYLICSTAB, Kanako Ito, Chirinuruwowaka, asaco nasu, Mutsumi Nomiyama and Mineko Yamamoto.