Punay was born with wounds on her feet so she has never been able to walk. Her brother, Angkarang, carrying her in a hammock, is always on his way, searching for a healer who can cure Punay. In a kind of a peculiar road movie story, there are different people they meet along the way – a woman looking for her husband, a fisherman who has lost his boat and a young man who is searching for himself. The first Palawan indigenous film in the world is full of symbolically mystic transformances. Busong is the indigenous Palawan concept of fate or instant karma, when nature reacts instantly to a man's disrespect towards nature or other men.
Cast: Alessandra de Rossi, Dax Alejandro, Clifford Banagale
Directed by: Auraeus Solito
After finishing studies in the US, Ananda returns home to Thailand, unsure of what to do with his life next. He tries his hand in acting in a film by a famous director. On a small seaside village film set, he is visited by his girlfriend and course mate Zoe. However, their relationship is fraught with something unusual and soon again she leaves. Some time later, Ananda meets May. It is difficult for him to find a grip in the world between different languages, cultures, and classes of society. Ananda visits his childhood town, but does not recognize it any more. Estrangement soon enters his relationship with others.
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Cerise Leang, Sajee Apiwong
Directed by Aditya Assarat
Scriptwriter: Aditya Assarat
A simple story told on the backdrop of Thai post-rock soundtrack – a tale of ambivalent feelings between an embittered disabled man and his caretaker. Ake is paralyzed from the waist down following an accident. Pun is his male nurse, who, despite Ake’s resistance, continues to take care of him with candid affection. The mellow and meditative film, taking unexpected visual turns, will be a delight to those who love films with a satisfying aftertaste longing quite a while after leaving the cinema.
Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noieam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Scriptwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong
One of the most impressive films in the history of Latvian documentary cinema – a monumental film, shot by four different crews in the whole Soviet Union under the supervision of director Uldis Brauns. Referencing the number of inhabitants of the massive country in its title, the film contrastingly captures the most important moments in the life of an individual as well as the society, seeking the personal and the intimate as well as scope and the sensational in the scenes of the mass events.
Directed by: Uldis Brauns
After 25 years of working at the Cinemateca Uruguaya film archive, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge, who has never worked anywhere else except in film, loses his job. Once faced with unemployment, the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred.
Cast: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola Venditto
Directed by: Federico Veiro
Legend has it that director Raoul Ruiz once asked Marcello Mastroianni, which role he would like to play, and the actor responded – a professor, a tramp and a servant. But the film "Three Lives and Only One Death" is not that simple as the initial impression of three separate stories disappears when the previous story characters randomly start to appear in the next story. Raoul Ruiz with distinguishing ease merges the stories and Marcello Mastroianni in his penultimate role performs magnificently.
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes
Directed by: Raoul Ruiz
Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers sensitive information that could easily plunge the entire business into peril, inadvertently destroying the lives and careers of his colleagues in this tense thriller set during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course of the next 24 hours, Sullivan realizes that the decisions he makes will not only affect the employees of the firm, but the lives of everyday Americans from coast to coast as well.
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary Mcdonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi, Ashley Williams, Susan Blackwell, Maria Dizzia, Jimmy Palumbo, Al Sapienza, Peter Y. Kim, Grace Gummer, Oberon K. Adjepong, Jason Denuszek, Matthew J. Walters.
Directed by: JC Chandor
As a conceited scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Yangsheng believes that since life is short, one should pursue the ultimate sexual pleasure as time allows. Wei Yangsheng encounters Tie Fei the Taoist priest's daughter, Tie Yuxiang, on an occasion. With the former's talent and the latter's beauty, they fall in love at first sight, and Wei Yangsheng is later married into the Tie's family. Yuxiang is elegant and courteous under the influence of her father's faith, though her lack of passion cannot fully satisfy Wei Yangsheng's sexual needs. His disappointment is no less than his affection for her.
Cast: Saori Hara, Jukiko Suo, Hiro Hajama, Vonī Luī, Leni Laņa
Directed by: Kristofers Suņs Laps Ki
In the comedy American Pie: Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.
From ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 Ronin. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
47 Ronin is helmed by visionary director Carl Erik Rinsch (The Gift). Inspired by styles as diverse as Miyazaki and Hokusai, Rinsch will bring to life the stunning landscapes and enormous battles that will display the timeless Ronin story to global audiences in a way that’s never been seen before.
Available in 3D! *2D in selected cinemas.
The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
For The Bourne Legacy, Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.
Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh’s crew turns to petty crook Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible…to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur’s guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they’ve been casing the place for years, they just didn’t know it.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Michael Peña and Alan Alda
Directed by: Brett Ratner