Current Movies Listing Chinese Movie The Enigma of Arrival (May21) Director: SONG Wen Cast: LI Xian, GU Xuan, DONG Borui 抵達之謎

Beyond the Dream (Apr21) Director: Kiwi Chow Cast: Lau Chun Him, Cecilia Choi, , 幻愛 Poon Chan Leung

My Prince Edward (Mar21) Director: Norris Wong Cast: , Chu Pak Hong, Paw Hee 金都 Ching

S.W.A.T (Feb21) Director: Ding Sheng Cast: Ling Xiaosu, Smile Jia, Gina Jin 特警隊

The Guilty Ones (Jan21) Director: Wang Yu Cast: Wang Qianyuan, Song Jia, Feng 你是凶手 Yuanzheng

Till We Meet Again (Dec20) Director: Steven Ma Cast: Steven Ma, Josephine Ku, Jennifer Yu, 生前約死後 Himmy Wong

The Wild Goose Lake (Nov20) Director: Cast: Ge, Gwei Lun Mei, Liao Fan, Wan 南方車站的聚會 Qian

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The Enigma of Arrival Drama

After many years, a group of college friends reunite. They have not seen each other since the disappearance of Dondong, a girl they all secretly fancied. The circumstances of her disappearance cause the end of their friendship. A lot has remained unsaid. Until now.

Director: SONG Wen / Cast: LI Xian, GU Xuan, DONG Borui / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No rating in Mainland / Run Time: 112 min / Theatrical Releases: China – 31 Jul 2020 / Festivals & Awards:

Busan IFF; Fajr IFF; Chinese FF / Territories: Worldwide excluding China/ Inflight Release: May 2021

Beyond the Dream Mystery, Romance

Lok (Lau Chun Him) is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan (Cecilia Choi) and quickly falls in love with her. Just when he struggles whether to tell her about his illness, he has a relapse and becomes delusional. Little does he know that she is a psychological counselor who has a hidden agenda. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.

Director: Kiwi Chow / Cast: Lau Chun Him, Cecilia Choi, Nina Paw, Poon Chan Leung / Language: / Subtitles:

Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 119 min / Theatrical Releases: Hong Kong – 2 Jul 2020;

Taiwan – 15 Oct 2020 / Festivals & Awards: Golden Horse FF; HKFA; HK Film Critics Society Awards; HK Directors’ Guild Awards; HKAFF;

Taipei FF; Kongest Film Awards / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Apr 2021

My Prince Edward Drama

My Prince Edward is set in Golden Plaza, a shopping mall in Hong Kong best known for bridal shops and cheap wedding supplies. Fong is a clerk at one such bridal shop. She has been with Edward, the owner of a wedding photography shop in the same mall, for seven years.

Everyone sees Edward as Fong’s Prince Charming, destined to head to the altar. The problem is that Fong must first sort out the sham marriage that she was paid to take part in years ago before she can get married for real.

Director: Norris Wong / Cast: Stephy Tang, Chu Pak Hong, Paw Hee Ching / Language: Cantonese / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 91 min / Theatrical Releases: Hong Kong – 11 Jun 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: Winner of New Best Director and Best Original Film Score at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards; HKFA; HKAFF; Golden Horse FF;

FEFF; Seoul Independent FF; OAFF / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Mar 2021

S.W.A.T. Action

S.W.A.T. tells the story of an elite SWAT team, the "blue sword commandos" from the Chinese police as they carry out combat training and eventually going deep into the lair of a drug factory in a deserted island in the South China sea, and taking on a ruthless American drug lord played by Robert Knepper (“Prison Break”)to rescue the informer and take down the entire drug operation...

Director: Ding Sheng / Cast: Ling Xiaosu, Smile Jia, Gina Jin / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No rating in / Run Time: 109 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 27 Dec 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: N/A / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Feb 2021

The Guilty Ones Crime, Action, Adventure

BAI's daughter was kidnapped and died accidentally ten years ago, officer CHEN promised her to catch the criminal but retired without any result. Now LI's granddaughter was kidnapped and the modus operandi looks just same as the case ten years ago. BAI and CHEN reunite to investigate the case to catch the criminal.

Director: Wang Yu / Cast: Wang Qianyuan, Song Jia, Feng Yuanzheng / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 100 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 22 Nov 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: N/A / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Jan 2021

Till We Meet Again Drama

Ah-mui was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer when she was 26 years old. Ka-wai, her 6-year-old son and her husband has been taking care of her since then. One day, she vanishes without a trace. Ka-wai, engulfed in guilt, begins to suffer from depression and panic attack.

Ten years have passed, he still longs for the moment to meet her mom. However, Ah-mui insists to not meet with him, and even gives instructions to others to obstruct her son’s visit. In the meantime, a memory that was meant to be forgotten resurfaced. He remembers what he did to his mother and an unforgiveable sin that leads to Ah-mui’s disappearance…

Director: Steven Ma / Cast: Steven Ma, Josephine Ku, Jennifer Yu, Himmy Wong / Language: Cantonese / Subtitles: Traditional

Chinese and English / Rating: IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 97 min / Theatrical Releases: Hong Kong – 5 Dec 2019/ Festivals &

Awards: N/A / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Dec 2020

The Wild Goose Lake Drama

A gang leader on the run seeking redemption...

A girl in trouble risking everything to gain her freedom... Both hunted on the hidden shores of The Wild Goose Lake. They set a deadly gamble for what may be their last day.

Director: Diao Yinan / Cast: , Gwei Lun Mei, Liao Fan, Wan Qian / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: French and English /

Rating: 15+ () / IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 113 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 6 Dec 2019, Taiwan – 13

Dec 2019, Hong Kong – 9 Jan 2020 / Festivals & Awards: Festival de Cannes, Asian Film Critics Association Awards / Territories:

Worldwide excluding United States, Australia, France, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau / Inflight Release: Nov 2020

Life of Chu Drama

Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao . His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but ends up failing. The three childhood friends struggle with each other and seek for a way out...

Director: Lu Yu-lai / Cast: Geng Le, Qi Xi, Lu Xing-chen / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 112 min / Theatrical Releases: TBC / Festivals & Awards: Osaka Asian FF;

Third Lychee IFF - Best Director & Best Performance; PYIFF - People’s Choice Awards & Best Film / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland

China / Inflight Release: Sep 2020

Wanted Suspense, Action

“S” is working in his own workshop to repair cars and he has a hobby with good technics to modify cars with accelerators. One day his brother Alex came back after disconnecting for many years, it made him getting into a mysterious group called WANTED. Alex only trusted his brother and asked him to fix his car and would tell him what has happened during these years. Unfortunately, Alex has got into coma after a car accident. Simultaneously, S has received a parcel from Alex who has arranged for the delivery days ago.

In the parcel, there are Alex’s pre-recorded videos and clues, S found that his brother has never forgot their promise and just tried to earn more monies for better living together. He found that there are a huge amount of cash and gold in a safe box hiding in their old home. There is also a key of God to connect with the “WANTED” group. S faked his brother’s identity and got orders. He tried to trace out what kind of this organization. When the truth is getting close, S found that their illegal proof and his brother’s accident is not simple.

Director: Lester TANG / Cast: Jerome Cheung, Lokyi Lai, Kimmy Kwan, Anthony Song / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles:

Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 96 min / Theatrical Releases: TBC / Festivals

& Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Aug 2020

Ip Man 4: The Finale Martial Arts, Action, Drama

Inside a sports arena in San Francisco, the audience is giving Bruce Lee a big round of applause for his demonstration of . Sitting on the spectator stand, Ip Man is especially pleased with his protégé’s performance. In addition to visiting with Bruce Lee, Ip

Man’s main purpose of coming to America is to find a school for his son and broaden his horizon. Ip Man soon realizes the stable, peaceful life abroad is only skin deep. Underneath lies a deep rooted racial discrimination that is far worse than he has expected. Miles away from home, Ip Man longs to hear his son’s voice. Yet every time he calls home, his son refuses to answer. Feeling particularly lonely, his cough worsens. Diagnosed with cancer, he comes a long way to make final arrangements for his son, yet this land of dream is far from anything he has imagined – cultural differences, generation gap and feeling lost. Ip Man soon gets embroiled in a conflict between Chinese and Western martial artists. Several martial artists are severely injured by Barton, an American officer. Ip Man re-examines his position and ponders on the reason he took up martial arts in the beginning. In the end, he decides to challenge Barton as a Chinese martial artist. A final showdown between East and West is about to commence. It is a fight for the dignity of Chinese culture and to reshape people’s thinking about whether the grass is truly greener on the other side of the fence.

Director: Wilson Yip Wai Shun / Cast: , , Van Ness, Scott Adkins / Language: Cantonese and some English dialogue (Mandarin dub available) / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 105 min /

Theatrical Releases: Taiwan – 19 Dec 2019; Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia - 20 Dec 2019; Japan – 8 May

2020 / Festivals & Awards: Hong Kong Film Awards; Fighting Spirit FF; Macau IMF / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China /

Inflight Release: Jul 2020

Wet Season Drama

It is Monsoon season in Singapore and the city is pouring with rain.

Wet Season follows the plight of Ling, a teacher, whose marriage and school life are fraying apart because she is unable to bear a child. But an unlikely friendship with a student helps her reaffirm her identity as a woman.

Director: / Cast: , Koh Jia Ler, Christopher Lee / Language: Mandarin and some English Dialogue /

Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: M18 (Singapore) / Run Time: 103 min / Theatrical Releases: Singapore – 28

Nov 2019; Taiwan – 31 Jan 2020 / Festivals & Awards: BFI London FF; Singapore IFF; TIFF; Hof IFF; Qcinema IFF; Golden Horse FF; Pingyao

IFF; Arava IFF; Torino FF; Belfort Entrevues FF; Jogja-NETPAC AFF; Viennale; London FF; VIFF; Macao FF; Five Flavours AFF; Mumbai FF;

Göteborg FF; Cairo IFF; Thessaloniki IFF / Territories: Worldwide excluding USA and Canada / Inflight Release: Jul 2020

A Journey To The Seaside Comedy, Drama, Family

Shen Tong, an unreliable private car driver receives a long-distance order from Beijing to Zhoushan. The passengers are a little bit special, including an 8-year-old boy Nan Nan and a dog called Galileo. Although unwillingly, Shen Tong takes the order. They experience various events on the roadtrip, and the relationship between Shen Tong and Nan Nan changes delicately. Shen Tong conjectures that Nan Nan may have some kinds of relationship with him. By the end of their journey, Shen Tong realizes life has made a huge joke on him. The trip heals two lonely hearts, helping them to start a new journey in their own life.

Director: Sha Yi / Cast: Sha Yi, Sha Junbo / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: N/A / Run

Time: 96 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 3 Oct 2019 / Festivals & Awards: Chinese FF in New Zealand /

Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Jul 2020

Lion Rock Drama

In 2011, Lai Chi-wai – one of the top rock climbers in Asia – lost everything when a motorcycle accident took away his ability to walk.

Rather than succumbing to his fate, Lai found his own way of scaling those dizzying peaks again.

Director: Nick Leung Kwok Pun / Cast: Alex Lam Tak Shun, Michelle Wai Sze Nga, Kevin Chu Kam Yin, Angela Yuen Lai Lam /

Language: Cantonese / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: I (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 96 min / Theatrical

Releases: Hong Kong - 14 Nov 2019 / Festivals & Awards: HKAFF / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Jun 2020

Hunt Down Crime, Suspense, Action

Criminal police Zhao was assigned to a special undercover operation on a National treasure case. The target is her biological father’s wife

(her stepmother). Zhao was smart enough to trace her stepmother’s evidence of crime. The relationship between Zhao and her biological father finally improved after years of misunderstanding. On the verge of closing the case, a bigger mystery emerged. The national treasure

disappeared under the surveillance of police officers. Zhao’s biological father Wan became a suspect, as he was one of the few historical professors who went down to the tomb before. Struggles of sense and sensibility grew within the daughter and father’s hearts.

Director: Jun Lee / Cast: , Song , Jiao Junyan, Chen Shu / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 112 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 15 Nov 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding mainland China and Taiwan / Inflight Release: Jun 2020

Hear Your Love Drama

Lei lei is a six-year-old girl with sensorineural deafness. Because of her father's early death and her mother's busy work, lei lei was raised by her grandpa. Although lei lei could not hear, her grandpa loved her very much and stick together and help each other in difficulties. Her grandpa had to teach her how to read,because she unable to go to school. More and more problems had come out when Lei lei grew up gradually. She could not fit into the normal social life and could not get a proper education. No child was willing to make friends with her.

Looking at that Lei lei often bullied, grandpa distressed, finally he sold his beloved metasequoia forest which he had cared for more than 50 years, and fitted her with an expensive electronic cochlea.

Her grandpa died soon after she recovered. Lei lei could not accept the death of her grandpa and always misses him very much. After many years, She has satisfied the agreement with her grandpa and was admitted to the conservatory of music. Eventually she became an excellent pianist.

Little Lei lei, the role of this film, is played by a pre-hearing-impaired child equipped with an electronic cochlea.

Director: Song Lei / Cast: Bian Ruotong, Wang Xinsen, Chen Yuejiao, Kan Xin / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional

Chinese and English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 24 min / Theatrical Releases: TBC / Festivals &

Awards: Cannes IFF; Great Lakes IFF / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Jun 2020

We Are Champions Drama

Born into the bottom rungs of society, two brothers who have nothing but each other are discovered after a video of their street basketball game goes viral, changing their lives forever.

Younger brother Tung-hao is recruited by basketball powerhouse Yuying High School and decides to leave his brother behind to chase his dream of winning the HBL championship. Older brother Hsiu-yu joins Kuang Cheng High, a team on the fringes of the top 12.

Though he had once given up on competitive basketball because of a hearing impairment in one ear, Hsiu-yu regains his confidence and passion for the game thanks to the support of his coach and teammates. Under Hsiu-yu’s leadership, Kuang Cheng progresses through the

HBL tournament, but also grows increasingly distant from Tung-hao.

Eventually, they meet again in the HBL championship game, where each brother must defeat the other before him for the sake of his team and basketball glory. When crunch time arrives, both finally realize that there are more important things in life than winning. Before the final buzzer sounds, they must fight to rediscover what they have lost — and what it truly means to be a champion.

Director: Chang Jung-Chi / Cast: Fandy Fan, Berant Zhu, Duan Chun-Hao / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: 0+ (Taiwan) / Run Time: 117 min / Theatrical Releases: Taiwan – 23 Aug 2019 / Festivals & Awards: Taipei

Golden Horse FF; Toronto Reel Asian IFF; San Diego Asian FF; Kaohsiung FF / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China and Taiwan /

Inflight Release: May 2020

Wushu Orphan Drama

In the late 90’s, wet-behind-the-ears Lu Youhong takes a job teaching Chinese at a remote martial arts academy. His many students could care less for academics except for Zhang Cuishan, who excels at schoolwork but hates martial arts and is bullied for it.

Director: Huang Huang / Cast: Noah Jin, Liu Zhihan, Yunxiao Hou / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English

/ Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 121 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 8 Nov 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: Golden Koala CFF; Tokyo IFF; New York Asian FF; Jogjs-NETPAC Asian FF; Minsk IFF; Hawaii IFF; CinemAsia FF / Territories:

Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: May 2020

Synapses Drama

Hsiao-Meng, once a scapegoat of her drug smuggler boyfriend, is released on parole. The home used to be a familiar place, but everything just seems strange now. During Hsiao-Meng’s time in prison, her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He started losing memories of himself and of his family. At the same time, after 6 years of separation, her son Ah-Chuan can no longer recognize her.

Hsiao-Meng’s parents had slept in separate rooms for many years, but this time her mom took the chance to re-write their history; she made up many sweet details to fulfill her desire for love. However, the only memory the man kept is about his old friend. One day,

Hsiao-Meng’s father has gone missing, followed Ah-Chuan’s lead, she came to the seaside…

Director: Chang Tso-Chi / Cast: Lu Hsueh-Feng, Zhang Xiao-Xiong, Li Meng, Yu-Chang / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles:

Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: 12+ (Taiwan) / Run Time: 115 min / Theatrical Releases: Taiwan – 15 Nov 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: Golden Horse FF / Territories: Worldwide excluding Taiwan / Inflight Release: Apr 2020

Wish You Were Here Drama

“What’s kept hidden has its own power on us.”

A successful businesswoman in Beijing is visited by a mysterious young Japanese woman. This sparks her journey back to Hokkaido, Japan to examine the choices she made 20 years earlier when she moved to a small town for her husband. WISH YOU WERE HERE is a look at a woman traversing through modernity and tradition; China and Japan; youth and maturity.

The journey back to Hokkaido reveals more than meets the eye which brings her to face her deepest fear.

Director: / Cast: Faye Yu, Takao Osawa / Language: Mandarin with some Japanese dialogue / Subtitles: Traditional

Chinese and English / Rating: N/A / Run Time: 120 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 12 Apr 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: Asian FF of Dallas / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Apr 2020

Over Again Romance, Fantasy

Three friends grew up together with different personalities but strong relationships. However, because of misunderstanding, one of them chose to die willfully, and the other two, wanting to redeem their regrets, went back to the past to save him. During all the fantastic time,

all of them created an unforgettable memory of youth together. Like most teenagers, they are wild, straightforward and reckless, but they had confidence and bravery for their friendship.

Director: Hua Ming / Cast: Hou Minghao, Peng Yuchang, Gai Yuexi / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 91 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 26 Jul 2019 / Festivals

& Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan / Inflight Release: Mar 2020

If You're Happy Drama

The story of Mr. Fu purchasing a school district apartment for his daughter within 72 hours. The film depicts the different issues and subjects that occur in the present day of China -- education, parenting, marriage, school district housing, financial burdens, etc. In Mr. Fu’s attempts to purchase a school district apartment, he encounters these problems and, through both the unexpected incidents and character developments, the film expresses the unspoken concerns and struggles of the modern day parents. To avoid subjectivity and present the truest pictures, each scene consists of only one take.

Director: Chen Xiaoming / Cast: Guan Xuan, Xu Xing, Fu Miao / Language: Mandarin with some dialogue in /

Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 99 min / Theatrical Releases:

Mainland China – 26 Jul 2019 / Festivals & Awards: IFF; NYAFF; Dances with Films (LA) / Territories: Worldwide excluding

Mainland China / Inflight Release: Mar 2020

Shanghai Fortress Sci-fi, Romance, War

Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battles to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in its quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.

Director: Teng Huatao / Cast: , , Godfrey Kao / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 107 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 9 Aug 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Feb 2020

Always Miss You Romance, Drama

LIN Xintian has a secret crash on HUANG Kequn for a long time, and they have missed each other many times when they are grown up.

Meanwhile, they are having some random relationships. In the end, they get together with their efforts and persistence.

Director: Chen Hung I / Cast: Amber Kuo, Ethan Li, Ryan Zheng / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: 0+ (Taiwan) / Run Time: 99 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 1 May 2019; Taiwan - 17 May 2019 / Festivals

& Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan / Inflight Release: Feb 2020

ATM Romance, Comedy

Meng Xiaoxian and Hebi were blissfully albeit secretly conducting a love affair while working as colleagues at the Yanhuang Bank when out of the blue, a newly issued workplace policy forbade co-workers from dating. If discovered, they both stand to lose their jobs, unless one of

them bites the bullet and quits. With their relationship in jeopardy, the two must weigh their love against the stability of their high paying jobs. Meanwhile, an ATM located 300 km away in Beartown suddenly breaks down, the lovers make a bet to see who deserves to keep the high paying job by saving more losses for the bank...

Director: Zha Mu-chun / Cast: Zhu Ya-wen, Sandrine Pinna / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No Rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 102 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 6 Sep 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Jan 2020

Summer of Changsha Crimes, Suspense

China, nowadays, in the city of Changsha.

A Bin is a police detective. During the investigation of a bizarre murder case, he meets Li Xue, a surgeon. As they get to know each other, A

Bin happens to be more and more attracted to this mysterious woman, while both are struggling with their own love stories and sins. Could a love affair help them find redemption?

Director: Zu Feng / Cast: Zu Feng, Huang Lu, Chen Minghao / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: TBC / Run Time: 120 min / Theatrical Releases: TBC / Festivals & Awards: Cannes FF / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Jan 2020

Vortex Crimes, Drama

LIU is in desperate need of money after losing at gambling, again. A friend can help, he just needs to steal an unregistered car back and resell it. The simple scam becomes complicated when they find a little girl in the trunk of the car.

Director: Gan Jianyu / Cast: Da Peng, Ou Hao, Li Meng / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating:

No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 114 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 30 Aug 2019 / Festivals & Awards:

TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Dec 2019

Jinpa Drama

On the path of life, sometimes we meet someone whose dreams overtake our own to the point that they converge.

This is a story of revenge and redemption.

On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg.

He comes to understand that this man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitchhiker off at a fork in the road, little does the truck driver realize that their short time together has changed everything, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined.

Director: Pema Tseden / Cast: Jinpa, Genden Phuntsok, Sonam Wangmo / Language: Tibetan / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: IIA (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 88 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 26 Apr 2019; Hong Kong – 11 July

2019 / Festivals & Awards: Venice FF - Best Screenplay; Tokyo FILMeX; Toronto IFF; Busan IFF; Tromsø IFF / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Dec 2019

Fighting Men of China Drama

Three young men from small towns arrive in Beijing, completely new to the big city and ready to create something big. Their story happens against the backdrop of the development of China's Internet industry in the last 20 years, from the 1990s to present-day. As each character's fate develops, audiences witness how China's Internet industry changes from inception, to the industry bubble, and then to its rapid explosion.

Director: Liu Yadang / Cast: Zhao Lixin, Ling Xiaosu, Wang Jia / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No Rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 123 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 18 Dec 2018 / Festivals &

Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Nov 2019

We Are Legends Action, Drama

Orphaned brothers Jack and Bunny grow up in a martial arts club. Jack supports Bunny’s study but cut ties with him after Bunny is caught for fighting underground and gets kicked out of school.

Bunny goes viral on the internet with videos of how he speedily knocks out his opponent and is referred to as the King of Street Fights. Jack devotes himself into training and fighting in numerous competitions, setting a record of 59 wins. However, he is defeated at his first professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight while his opponent Jason humiliates his instructor and martial arts club on stage.

To avenge for his brother, Bunny challenges Jason for a fight…

Director: Daniel Chan / Cast: Edward Ma, Lam Yiu Sing, Wiyona Yeung / Language: Cantonese / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 108 min / Theatrical Releases: Hong Kong - 21 Mar 2019 / Festivals & Awards:

TBC / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Nov 2019

Guang Drama, Family

A spark of childhood inspiration starts an autistic young man on a journey to collect specific glass wares for his own unique purpose. In doing so, he jeopardizes his relationship with his younger brother and both their jobs. Little do they know that this quest could unlock the answers to their dire situation?

Director: Quek Shio Chuan / Cast: Kyo Chen, Ernest Chong, Emily Chan / Language: Mandarin with some Cantonese, English and

Malay dialogue / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: P13 (Malaysia) / PG (Singapore) / Run Time: 88 min /

Theatrical Releases: Malaysia – 29 Nov 2018; Singapore – 14 Mar 2019; Hong Kong – 13 June 2019; Taiwan – 23 Aug 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: Chinese Young Generation Film Forum - Best Feature Film, Best New Actor and Best New Director; Malaysian Film Festival -

Most Promising Actor, Most Promising Director, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography; CinemAsia Film Festival; Hanoi IFF; ASEAN IFF& Awards;

Shanghai IFF / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Oct 2019

Fly By Night Crime, Drama

Three taxi drivers, led by the serious and careful Tailo, have perfected their small and moderately profitable extortion game of blackmailing airport pick-ups. When Tailo brings in Ah Soon, his late policeman father’s god-son recently released from jail, Sailo decides to break Tailo’s meticulous methods and do things his own way just as the police starts monitoring them.

Sailo wants more. He wants more money, more say, and more freedom, and resents his brother for not trusting him. Tailo trusts no one,

Gwailo reminds him, but Sailo is insistent: he wants to do this on his own and he wants to do it bigger. Is Gwailo with him? At first hesitant,

Gwailo agrees after his gambling debts pile up and his bookie pays him a violent visit.

They target Reanne, a young woman living in a luxury condo who sells them on an alternative: her ex-boyfriend Marcus. Marcus’ wife can’t find out about her, or Marcus will lose everything. And she doesn’t want the money. She just wants his wedding ring.

Excited about the prospect of a cash influx, the boys go to an underground gambling hall, the land of notorious kingpin Jared. They borrow against their success and end up losing it all at the poker table. When the winner taunts Sailo, Sailo breaks a bottle on his head, resulting in a massive fight and fire. The two are dragged back to Tailo and Jared announces the new sum they are indebted for, and Sailo’s grand plans.

He gives them three days.

Tailo is livid with Sailo’s actions but recognises that it is the only way out. He warns them that the police are onto them, that Jared is an animal. Tomorrow will be the last job they do, and then they’ll take the last flight out and leave Kuala Lumpur forever ... if they survive...

Director: Zahir Omar / Cast: Sunny Pang, Jack Tan, Fabian Loo / Language: Mandarin with some Bahasa Malay and English dialogue /

Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: P13 (Singapore) / Run Time: 100 min / Theatrical Releases: Malaysia &

Singapore - 11 Apr 2019 / Festivals & Awards: Busan IFF; Jogja-NETPAC Asian FF; Macao IFF; Santa Barbara IFF; New York Asian FF /

Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Oct 2019

Blue Amber Drama

When a traffic accident claims the life of He Jie's husband, a substantial life insurance payment does little to heal the wound. One day, a museum tour guide's joke of a rare piece of blue amber forces her to ponder the value of life. How much is a life worth?

Director: Zhou Jie / Cast: Wang Zhener, Lu Yulai, Geng Le, Zhang Yao, Wang Caiping / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional

Chinese and English / Rating: No Rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 97 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 17 Dec

2018 / Festivals & Awards: Torino Film Festival; Shanghai FF - Asian New Talent Award for Best Cinematographer / Territories:

Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Oct 2019

The Big Shot Action, Drama

Sun DaSheng is a Major Crimes detective who fearlessly goes with his gut feeling and relentlessly devotes himself to solving crimes. When an ordinary citizen falls to his death from atop a building, DaSheng immediately suspects Zhao Tai, the heir to the city’s biggest corporation, is involved. Zhao Tai fears nothing in the world, and men of power protect him, ultimately interfering with DaSheng’s investigation of the heir. But Dasheng remains undeterred. He ceaselessly pursues the multi-billionaire in order to find justice for the wronged victim.

Director: Wu Bai / Cast: Wang Qianyuan, Bao Beier, Wang Xun / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No Rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 107 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 10 Jan 2019 / Festivals &

Awards: TBC / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Oct 2019

Savage Drama, Crime, Thriller

Mt. Baekdu, heavy with snow in the middle of winter. It is said that many ethnic Koreans still live near the snow-covered mountain. A policeman waiting for his transfer and a group of criminals trying to escape from the area after finding stolen goods that were hidden will have a final showdown on the isolated peak. The movie starts with a typical confrontation between the police and the villain, but the confrontation becomes meaningless as the movie progresses. In this debut film, the director spends more energy directing the human instinct to survive in extreme situations than on showing who is good or bad. of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Liao Fan of Black Coal, Thin Ice, the winner of the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival, appear as cop and criminal, creating characters transcending right and wrong through the frozen faces and the gestures like wild animals. Du Jie, one of China′s most talented cinematographers filmed the mountain covered with snow calmly, without excessive artistic self-consciousness.

Director: Cui Siwei / Cast: Chang Chen, , Liao Fan, Huang Jue / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: No Rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 112 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China - 30 Apr 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: Beaune International Thriller FF; Busan IFF - New Currents Award / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland

China / Inflight Release: Sep 2019

An Elephant Sitting Still Drama

Under the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage.

To protect his friend, 16-year-old WEI Bu pushes the school bully down the staircase and escapes the scene after the bully becomes hospitalized with his life hanging by a thread. WEI’s neighbor, the 60-year-old WANG Jin, is estranged from his family and decides to join him. HUANG Ling, WEI’s classmate, is bedeviled by an affair with the school official. Together, the desperate three decide to flee as the wounded bully’s hooligan brother, the school authorities and the parents all go on a cold-blooded hunt for WEI across town. As WEI treads through the wilderness, he finally confronts his own reality.

In the end, he boards a long-distance bus with HUANG and WANG toward Manchuria, where a circus elephant is said to be sitting still.

Director: Hu Bo/ Cast: Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu, Wang Yuwen, Li Congxi / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and

English / Rating: 12+ (Taiwan) / IIB (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 234 min / Theatrical Releases: Germany - 15 Nov 2018; France - 15

Nov 2018; UK – 14 Dec 2018; Taiwan - 11 Jan 2019; Hong Kong - 18 Jan 2019; USA - 8 Mar 2019; Netherlands - 6 Jun 2019 / Festivals

& Awards: Berlin IFF - Best First Feature Award and FIPRESCI Prize; CinEuphoria Awards - Best Director and Top Ten of the Year (International

Competition); Dublin IFF - Dublin Film Critics Special Jury Prize; Hong Kong IFF - Audience Choice Award; Taipei Golden Horse FF - Best Feature Film,

Best Adapted Screenplay and Audience Choice Award; IndieLisboa International Independent FF - Universities Culturgest Award; Philadelphia FF - Best

Narrative Feature; New Directors/New Films; Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema; Moscow IFF; IndieLisboa; Jeonju IFF; Sydney FF;

Edinburgh IFF; Karlovy Vary IFF; FIRST IFF; Golden Apricot FF; New Zealand IFF; Odesa IFF; Locarno FF; Melbourne IFF; Toronto IFF; Atlantic FF; Haifa

FF; San Sebastián FF; CPH PIX; Zurich FF; Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal; UCLA China Onscreen Biennial; IFF; QCinema IFF; Rio de Janeiro IFF; Minsk IFF; Denver IFF; Thessaloniki IFF; Tokyo FILMeX; Göteborg FF; CinemAsia FF/ Territories: Worldwide excluding USA,

Mainland China and Canada / Inflight Release: Sep 2019

Make It Big Big Comedy

After having immense success with The Breakfast Quartet radio talk show on MediaCorp LOVE 97.2FM and “The Love 97.2 Breakfast

Quartet” TV series, the popular quartet is now back with their very own movie! MAKE IT BIG BIG is a reality comedy that delves into the secret lives of the leading four radio-presenters, detailing how these celebrities deal with living in the public eye, meeting the daily expectations of their fans and their personal issues.

Director: Mark Lee / Cast: Dennis Chew, Marcus Chin, Chen Biyu / Language: Mandarin and English / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: PG (Singapore) / Run Time: 108 min / Theatrical Releases: Singapore - 3 Jan 2019 / Festivals & Awards:

TBC / Territories: Worldwide / Inflight Release: Sep 2019

Long Day’s Journey Into Night Drama

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled several years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved, and whom he has never been able to forget. She said her name was Wan Quiwen …

Director: Bi Gan / Cast: , Huang Jue, / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English /

Rating: No rating in Mainland China; PG13 (Singapore); R-13 (Philippines); PG (Canada); U (France); IIA (Hong Kong) / Run Time: 133 min / Theatrical Releases: Hong Kong – 9 Nov 2018; Taiwan – 24 Nov 2018; Mainland China – 31 Dec 2018; France – 30 Jan 2019 /

Festivals & Awards: Cannes FF – Un Certain Regard; Lisbon & Sintra FF – In Competition; Golden Horse Awards - Best Cinematography, Best

Original Film Score, Best Sound Effects, Nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Director; Geneva IFF – Special Mention of the International Features

JuryToronto IFF – Official Selection; Film Fest Gent – Official Selection; BFI London FF – Official Selection; San Sebastian FF – Official Selection; New

York FF – Official Selection; Austin Asian American FF; Tallinn Black Nights FF; Calgary FF; Singapore IFF; Rotterdam IFF; Festival Du Nouveau Cinema

Vancouver IFF; Virginia FF; QCinema IFF; Palm Springs IFF; Philadelphia Film Society; San Diego Asian FF / Territories: Worldwide excluding

Mainland China, Taiwan and France / Inflight Release: Aug 2019

Einstein and Einstein Drama

13-year-old Li Wan loses her mother long ago. When she grows up, her father remarries. Not long after, Li Wan has a half brother. This series of events lead adolescent Li Wan to become strange and silent. Her father buys a lovely dog, hoping it can remove her depression. Li

Wan and the puppy soon establish a deep affection, and she names the puppy "Einstein". Unfortunately, Einstein is lost by accident. So another dog is brought to replace Einstein, but Li Wan knows that everything has changed. She can not go back to the past but compromise, which seems to be the only choice.

Director: CAO Baoping / Cast: ZHANG Xueying, GUO Jinglin, ZHI Yitong / Language: Mandarin / Subtitles: Traditional Chinese and English / Rating: No rating in Mainland China / Run Time: 121 min / Theatrical Releases: Mainland China – 7 Dec 2018 /

Festivals & Awards: Berlin IFF – Special Mention; Beijing College Student FF – Best Film; Chinese Young Generation Film Forum; Busan IFF;

Festival du Cinéma Chinois en France / Territories: Worldwide excluding Mainland China / Inflight Release: Aug 2019