New 4K Restoration – 30th Anniversary Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two boys […]
4K Restoration A car salesman plans to wipe out his personal debts by hiring a pair of colorful crooks to kidnap his wife and have her wealthy father pay the ransom. The haphazard scheme turns sour during a routine pull-over that leaves three dead bodies in its wake. *Winner of 2 Academy Awards including Best […]
Film selected by Catherine Brunet, actress Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever watchful Anaïs […]
Told in the form of a triptych divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Blending remarkable performances from its ensemble cast with Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, the iconic indie director’s latest […]
In collaboration with the FNC Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop is khat: a plant whose euphoria-inducing leaves are used for everything from the quest for transcendence to making the daily grind more bearable. The plant and its age-old rituals are central to this first feature from Jessica Beshir, who journeys to her father’s homeland to […]
Staff Picks – Cesar Ramos (café-bar) Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare […]
Performing as the magnificent Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, CANDYMAN) has become one of London’s most celebrated drag artists. After a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes when he is brutally attacked by a gang of homophobic “blokes” in black-and-yellow polos and matching tattoos. Although able to recover physically, Jules withdraws from the […]
Special screening with filmmaker Khoa Lê in attendance, in partnership with Festival Accès Asie In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, Má Sài Gòn explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The […]
Co-presented by Festival Accès Asie and Festival Filministes, in collaboration with MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) Screening + Q&A with Léuli Eshrāghi Léuli Eshrāghi unveils their recent video works exploring Indigiqueer and embodied memory and joy, through their unique perspective as a Indigenous, Sāmoan, Persian, Cantonese, and European artist, poet, and curator. The artwork will then […]
As part of Let’s confront racism together 2024, Festival Accès Asie presents Cinéma de Babel ! Curated by director Laurence Ly, this program for children aged 8 and over consists of five short animated offering inclusive stories. The shorts use a variety of animation techniques (3D, 2D, stop-motion and a combination of techniques) and address […]