“Butterfly” was chosen as the Opening Film at Venice Film Festival Critics Week and Yuan Tian was awarded as Best New Artist at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2005. The film was also nominated at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards In 2004 for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best New Performer (Yuan Tian). The main actress Josie Ho, received a nomination at the Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Actress and at Ilma Awards for Best Leading Actress, both in 2005.
Butterfly is screening at Five Flavours
As a schoolteacher, Flavia (Josie Ho) meets Yip (Yuan Tian), a young and free-spirited singer. As she reminisces about her past as a closeted lesbian, she feels strongly attracted to Yip and must decide whether to be true to herself. Growing up with an emotionally needy and unstable mother, Flavia found solace with her schoolmate Jin (Stephanie Che), fell in love, and moved in with her. Due...
Butterfly is screening at Five Flavours
As a schoolteacher, Flavia (Josie Ho) meets Yip (Yuan Tian), a young and free-spirited singer. As she reminisces about her past as a closeted lesbian, she feels strongly attracted to Yip and must decide whether to be true to herself. Growing up with an emotionally needy and unstable mother, Flavia found solace with her schoolmate Jin (Stephanie Che), fell in love, and moved in with her. Due...
- 11/26/2022
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Love them or hate them, online film events have become part of festival-goers’ lives. At the time that would have been the week just after Festival de Cannes, the whole world can come together to “attend” We Are One: A Global Film Festival. The event programmed by 21 renowned film festivals lists a good number of Asian films. In its selection, International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) offers the 2016 feature debut of Tracy Choi “Sisterhood”.
Sei (Gigi Leung/Fish Liew) lives in Taiwan and, with her husband, runs a small hotel. Despite she might be one of the most loved wives ever, she is not happy. And she drinks a lot. When she finds an ad about her estranged best friend Ling (Jennifer Yu) passing, she decides to return to Macau. Her trip into space becomes a trip into time too. Sei is to meet friends she left behind 15 years ago.
Sei (Gigi Leung/Fish Liew) lives in Taiwan and, with her husband, runs a small hotel. Despite she might be one of the most loved wives ever, she is not happy. And she drinks a lot. When she finds an ad about her estranged best friend Ling (Jennifer Yu) passing, she decides to return to Macau. Her trip into space becomes a trip into time too. Sei is to meet friends she left behind 15 years ago.
- 6/8/2020
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
“A Complicated Story” marks the debut of upcoming Hong Kong director Chau Kwoon Wai, and despite being a graduation project is a notable release, being the first film from the new Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts (Hkapa) film program, produced by Johnnie To and William Kong of Milkyway and Edko Films. Adapted from a novel by popular author Yi Shu, the film is a drama dealing with the currently hot topic of surrogate motherhood, which as the title suggests weaves an intricate web of secrets, lies and shifting relationships. At the heart of the film is actress Zhu Zhi Ying (“Lust, Caution”), playing a university student called Liu Yazi who agrees to become a surrogate mother for a rich couple in order to raise the money for an operation for her seriously ill brother. Despite surrogacy being a legal and moral grey area, Liu Yazi agrees to the deal,...
- 5/23/2014
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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