Oh! My Emperor

Upon twenty-something Ray Motaro's release from a psychiatric hospital, his sister Lily and best friend Nick throw him a well-intentioned but over-stimulating welcome home party. Ray discovers that Lily and Nick have been sleeping together, causing him to have an untimely psychotic relapse to the horror of all his friends and family. Alas, Ray is readmitted to the psych ward as an involuntary patient. Lily and Nick embark on a life together, blissfully unaware that Ray has already begun plotting his escape, hell-bent on exposing a dark secret that will bond the trio in ways they never could have expected.

Zero, who, like many Hong Kong youngsters, has a handful of unsteady jobs. She takes a fancy to Chan Kwok Chan, whom she stalks. Chan in turn, has a job donning exotic costumes as a cyber papel doll for a porn website and a sex-worker lover who has a son and a separate husband on the mainland. Then there's Nicole, who gets her orgasmic intimacy watching Chan every night. All these games of chasing, rejecting and seducing are played out in an economically and spiritually depressed Hong kong, without much gusto. Awash with melancholy and disillusionment, it's a tall task to love Hong Kong.

USKROEF NO SEXY is a saucy, fresh and sexy comedy from Johannesburg's burgeoning indie film scene. The film is set in Soweto, the apartheid-era township that today is characterized by social unrest and also lively cultural activity (the internationally popular Kwaito music style has its origins in Soweto). "Sexy" is a young dude from the ghetto who has set his sights on Sandton, a high-class "sistah" who treats Sexy like he's out of her league. Sexy's pal and gang mentor Skroef also thinks that Sexy's is biting off more than he can chew. So Skroef poses this challenge: if Sexy can convince Sandton to go on a first date, Skroef will bankroll all subsequent ones - no minor investment, as Sandton is accustomed to stepping out in style.

Friends in happy San Luis Obispo are about to lose their jobs so they leap into action; a funny series of selfish lurches which lead to betrayal, an accident, several attempts at pregnancy, and some pithy California soul-searching.

A man whose financial situation has deteriorated refuses to give up his luxurious lifestyle.