A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her adulthood, she's conflicted by the clash and fusion of both her cultures, all while facing a strenuous relationship with her mother Jia, who places concerns and demands on her.
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the place of a contestant who did not show up and must now impress the host, Julia Lee, and her chef husband, David Chen. Chen, who is originally from Singapore and misses his family, eventually learns he is Mark's father.
Former member of a triad, Sun seeks to emigrate to Canada. He decides to become a great chef of chinese cooking and follows the teaching master Au.
A comedy-adventure short film about three friends who decide to embark on the most impossible adventure in Melbourne...to find the best dumplings.
An aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy.
During the Period of the Republic of China, the land was devastated by domestic troubles and foreign aggression. When foreign powers plunder China's cultural relics, revolutionary Liu Yunfei rallies capable folk to protect the treasure from being looted and embarks on an adventure with the forces of all sides. They all went to find the treasure that buries at the bottom of the valley, unexpectedly, somebody want to steal the money and touched the trigger of mechanism, the mountain collapsed. Liu Yunfei sacrifices himself to rescue the people.
A housewife confronts situations to which no sane response exists... “Madwomen: To Be a Sparrow Not a Canary” is an experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969. An experimental collage creating an alternative narrative to the storylines in the animations, documentaries and feature films of that time period.
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Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé
Immersed in the gripping tale of survival in Denmarks' menacing underworld, a young man's desperate flight from relentless gang members leads to a fateful night of high stakes in a pulsating neon-lit nightclub.
A telecommunications employee struggles with his mundane and routine work life and attempts to escape it.
Kathrine is building a career as a ballet dancer. But when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has to face the fact that she will not dance again. Through an unexpected friendship, she wanders off on a journey to accept her destiny.
A short film that “gives a nightmarish spin to a conversation between two friends at a psycho-spiritual crossroads” - Tega Okiti.
Jonathan Rodd, a wealthy old widower, has a son, Frederick, who has become entangled with an adventuress, Olga, who is forcing him to financial ruin. The old man strives to break up the infatuation, but for the time being fails to do so.
Captain Silas Tugg, of the schooner Helen, is a hater of women and all their doings. He has forbidden his mate, Tom Burns, to marry.
Jane Darling is an invalid, whose husband, Charles, was formerly a famous actor, but in his old age has come down to be doorkeeper at a theater. For his wife's happiness, Charles still lets her think he is a famous star.
Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.
Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister.