The Dance

The film contains various stories about the "Comb Sisters", a group of women working in the silk mills of Southern China in the 1900s, who vow never to marry. The chief of the Comb Sisters is the beautiful lesbian Miss Shang. One of the Comb Sisters, Ah Di, had been promised in marriage when she was a child, so Miss Shang arranges a fake marriage for her. However Ah Di gradually falls in love with her husband. Miss Shang also buys very young girls, brings them up, and sells them when they are a marriageable age. Miss Shang asks the ridiculous sum of 20,000 yuan for one such girl, just to tease the men in the town, but the ploy backfires on her.

Straight from today's current event's a'Ali de Sousa brings a compelling story where Xenophobia extracts tragedy from a once happy American families. A film that challenges us to consider what America we want to live in.

An unnamed European village lies close to a river, which is a boundary between two countries. A severe storm changes the course of the river, and the village is now in the boundary of the neighboring totalitarian country. The villagers soon want the river changed back.

The Game of Juan's Life explores two hours in the life of Juan Reyes, known to others as Erwin. Juan is a 25 year who just found his way to Manila three years ago. Erwin has tried his hand at many odd jobs and now works as a live-sex performer at an underground gay bar.

Minjung, a young zainichi Korean woman, draws a small but fervent following as the puppet leader of God's Water, a cult in which she is said to communicate with a water oracle in order to heal pain of the damaged and lonely. When her following starts to pick up and her estranged father enters the picture, things start to unravel, prompting Minjung to seek out her roots, and ultimately find herself.