The Challenges

The friendship between a widower and a married woman is misunderstood.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

Sanjay Soorkar

Cast

Ashok Saraf, Sonali Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave

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, ...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Mitsuhiro Mihara

Cast

Miki Nakatani, Tatsuya Fuji, Kei Tanaka

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

Runtime

1h 29m

Cast

Ana Girardot, Aure Atika, Rossy de Palma

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Cast

Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a marri...

Runtime

2h

Director

Isabel Coixet, Tom Tykwer

Cast

Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa