Bottled Up

Where Ever You Are

2026

After living in Denmark for 38 years, Francisco has decided to move back to his homeland, the Philippines—a country he feels he has never really left. So, on a cold winter evening, he meets with his daughter, who was born and raised in Denmark, to tell her that he plans to leave just a few days later.

Amarela

2024 · ★ 6.5

On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family's traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

The Distance We Drift

2026

After nearly a decade apart, two former lovers from Hong Kong unexpectedly meet again in the UK, where they have each built a different life. Their reunion brings back memories they have tried to move on from, as they slowly reconnect and begin to see how much has changed. Now living far from home, they are forced to face the distance between who they were and who they have become. Set within the everyday reality of immigrant life, The Distance We Drift is a quiet and intimate story about love, memory, and the way time reshapes people in ways they don’t always realise.

Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

2024

Jason Lu, a Hongkonger living in LA, works a shift at a restaurant and finds himself in a bizarre situation, and facing a deadly problem.

Century Egg

2024 · ★ 6

A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in.

A Day Apart on the Seventeenth

2024

Dawn breaks on the 17th of August, and Laksmi prepares for a celebration of the Indonesian independence day. As she embarks on her preparations, she experiences visitations by familiar faces from her past, reminding her of the folly of nostalgia in a post-colonial world.

The Motherload

2024

An imaginative telling of the story of a Vietnamese American mother-daughter duo who, in their attempt to heal the rift between them, reenact and satirize scenes from celebrated Vietnam War films while depicting a diasporic reality. Two inventive storylines complicate The MOTHERLOAD to levels of absurdity. Both of these glide in and out beneath the narrative backbone of Jessca and Kim’s personal story, and reflect the stunning disconnect between the Vietnamese diaspora and the world’s understanding of their presence.

Last Day of Us

Returning to sell her old family home, a Korean Guatemalan immigrant confronts buried memories and lingering emotions, ultimately finding closure within its familiar walls

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

2008 · ★ 7

Co-directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras and subject Thavisouk Phrasavath, this haunting documentary chronicles a refugee family’s epic journey from Laos in the aftermath of the secret war waged by the United States there to New York, where they find themselves fighting a different kind of war on the streets of Brooklyn. Filmed over the course of 23 years, THE BETRAYAL is a visually and emotionally stunning look at the complex ways in which the political shapes the personal.

Thaaiku Oru Thaalaattu

1986 · ★ 10

A father does not hold a very good opinion about his son, Kannan, who works at his factory. Things take a turn for the worse when Pakkiri creates misunderstanding between the father and son duo.

Needhiyin Nizhal

1985

Nithyanandam, a sincere police officer, ends up in a wheel chair after an accident. His son, Vijay, who is a daring youngster, decides to become a police officer to fulfil his father's dreams.

Three for the Show

1955 · ★ 5.9

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.