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Narrative Features

Each Narrative Feature brings in a perspective from all over the globe; pockets of imagination created to make you laugh, cry, or jump out of your seat. Meet a widowed school teacher in Pakistan who becomes a viral sensation overnight when she accidentally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social media. Then fall in love with the couple that has to convince everyone that their love is real. Then travel back in time to 2017, where Uyghur people are being arrested without people knowing why.

Narrative Features

CHAPERONE

Film CHAPERONE Directed by Zoë Eisenberg Alienated by friends and family for her lack of ambition, 29-year-old Misha finds a dangerous acceptance in a…

Narrative Features, Special Presentations

DÌDI (弟弟)

Film DÌDI (弟弟) Directed by Sean Wang In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy…

Narrative Features, Pacific Cinewaves

INKY PINKY PONKY – THE ODD ONE OUT

Film INKY PINKY PONKY – THE ODD ONE OUT Directed by Damon Fepulea'i, Ramon Te Wake A new fakaleiti student at St Valentines High causes a stir, as rugby players, gender fluidity, Island mums…

Narrative Features

MADINA

Film MADINA Directed by Aizhan Kassymbek Madina, a single mother whose day-to-day routine is a battle for survival with lack of confidence in the…

Narrative Features

NIKAH

Film NIKAH Directed by Bastien Ehouzan, Mukaddas Mijit 2017, Uyghur Region. Dilber, a 27-year-old woman who is still single, has to endure pressure from her family…

Narrative Features

PAPER MARRIAGE

Film PAPER MARRIAGE Directed by Jeff Man A young professional seeking an U.S. green card enlists the help of a directionless slacker to stage a marriage.…

Narrative Features

SALLI

Film SALLI Directed by Chien-Hung Lien An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone…

Narrative Features

SMOKING TIGERS

Film SMOKING TIGERS Directed by So Young Shelly Yo Over one summer spent at an elite academic bootcamp, a lonely korean-american teenager hides her true identity to…

Narrative Features

WAKHRI

Film WAKHRI Directed by Iram Parveen Bilal A widowed school teacher becomes a viral sensation overnight when she accidentally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social…