prying mantis + crossing years

+ Introduction and Q&A with Director Yonfan

Friday October 24, 17:00
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Praying Mantis | Dir. Joe Hsieh & Yonfan | Taiwan / Hong Kong | Animation | 2025 | 18 mins | 18

Rendered in a hand-drawn style, "Praying Mantis" reinterprets the classical Chinese literature Liaozhai (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) through a surreal lens, set in a fantastical and diverse multiverse. Presented in a raw story book style, this 18-minute film tells a fable unlike anything seen before.

Crossing Years | Dir. Yonfan | Hong Kong | Documentary | 2025 | 90 mins | 18

Huang Yongyu (1924-2023), a towering figure in Chinese art world, engaged in a reflective conversation with Yonfan accompanied by his daughter Heini before Chinese New Year’s Eve in 2012. Their talks from childhood memories and the changing times to creative inspiration and even life and death.

behind the shadows

Dir. Jonathan Li & Chou Man-yu | Hong Kong | 2025 | 102 mins | 18

Friday October 24, 14:00
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Private detective Auyeung (Louis Koo) scrapes by in Malaysia, tailing unfaithful spouses, until a missing-person case takes a deadly turn. Drawn into danger and forced to face his own troubled past, he’s caught in a tense noir thriller about survival and broken relationships.

the sun rises on us all

Dir. Cai Shangjun | China | 2025 | 131 mins | 18

Friday October 24, 11:00
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Meiyun never thought she would see Baoshu again, her former lover who went to prison for a crime she committed. But when their paths cross, his reappearance shatters the fragile rhythm of her life. The past she’s fought to forget forces itself back into her present, along with the haunting question: can we ever truly forgive, others or ourselves?

yakushima’s illusion

Dir. Naomi Kawase | France / Japan / Belgium / Luxembourg | 2025 | 122 mins | 18

Saturday October 25, 14:30
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Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes. He becomes a “Johatsu”, as the Japanese call the 80,000 people who disappear overnight each year. Corry faces a double ordeal: saving a child while coping with the loss of the man she loves.

green wave

Dir. Xu Lei | China | 2024 | 111 mins | 18

Sunday October 26, 11:00
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This is a comedy drama following a drifting screenwriter celebrating his first film release and his father, convinced he’s struck gold with buried treasure in the backyard.

96 minutes

Dir. Hung Tzu-hsuan | Taiwan | 2025 | 117 mins | 18

Sunday October 26, 14:00
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96 Minutes is a tense Taiwanese drama that unfolds in real time, capturing one harrowing hour and a half that changes lives forever. Blending psychological intensity with social critique, director Hung Tzu-hsuan explores how ordinary people are pushed to their limits when fate traps them in an unexpected, life-altering confrontation.

the ugly

Dir. Yeon Sang-ho | Korea | 2025 | 103 mins | 18

Sunday October 26, 20:30
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The Ugly is an intimate mystery from Yeon Sang-ho about a man (Park Jeong-min) investigating his mother’s decades-old murder. As he uncovers her life as a social outcast for not fitting beauty standards, the film shifts from a simple whodunit to a poignant reflection on how appearance shapes identity and human connection.

family matters

Dir. Pan Ke-yin | Taiwan | 2025 | 99 mins | 18

Wednesday October 29, 15:30
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Family Matters follows three generations of a Taiwanese family as long-buried tensions surface during a rare reunion. Blending gentle humor with piercing honesty, the film explores love, duty, and the quiet fractures that shape family life across time.