China

Director Wang Hong Hai Present

Considered the most successful Chinese film of all time, winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and an audience favorite at numerous festivals, Aftershock ushers in a uniquely Chinese model of cinematic disaster epic that rings with truth. 

Director, Writer, Producer Kevin McKiernan Present

Ghandi’s movement for non-violent social change via Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., challenged American values about freedom. Kevin’s daughter, Caitrin McKiernan, dreamed of bringing King’s similar message to the Chinese people and its government through theatre.

Nominated for an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject.

A heroic David vs. Goliath story over three years in the making, Ruby Yang’s powerful documentary presents an unflinching look at social upheaval in a rural China desperately reaching for modernity.

Writer-director Zhang Lu’s fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea. Although fraught with unemployment and other tensions, his community seems sympathetic toward the Korean refugees fleeing famine and misery; Chang-ho even bonds over soccer with one young border-crosser who comes scavenging food for a sibling. But he soon turns on his new friend as suspicions mount against the illegal immigrants and his sister reels from unexpected aggression, provoking a quandary over his loyalties in an exquisitely detailed story of compassion and strife across an uneasy geopolitical border.