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Fleur is a Hip Hop genius. When she goes to university, she becomes a supernova in the dance crew, BombA. They wish to defeat their rival, Rooftoppers. However, being teased of her quirky dance moves, Fleur leaves BombA. Alan, the chairman of Tai Chi Club tries to recruit her, and soon love blossoms between them, bringing their seemingly contradictory worlds together. But one day, the leader of Rooftoppers shows up before Fleur… With the major actors chosen from more than 500 dancers, this film is a production that is 100% Made in Hong Kong. The choreographer, Shing Mak, is currently one of the most influential dance choreographers in Hong Kong, and the cinematographer Cheng Siu-Keung is Johnnie To’s official director of photography.

Five strangers’ lives will become intertwined in a bank heist gone wrong. A misunderstood college dropout, a bank clerk who’s stuck in a love triangle, a good cop suffering from Glaucoma, a widow who abandoned and a retired teacher plan to commit suicide inside the bank. The event will change their lives forever, but will they get a fresh start or to a point of no return?

A Time in Quchi is the final chapter of the director’s stories about family. After his father passed away, Chang Tso Chi wanted to make a film in his father’s familiar language, hence “How are you, Dad?” was born. The next movie, “When Love Comes” (Best Picture 47th Golden Horse Awards), is a story about mothers.

A collection of 6 short films from assorted ethnic Chinese directors from South East Asia. Originally titled Homeland and Diaspora, each director is invited to make a short film that contemplates the notion and relationship between the Chinese Diaspora and China. Aditya Assarat‘s Now Now Now tells the story of two cousins, one Thai, one Chinese, and their reunion in Bangkok after not seeing each other for many years. Royston Tan's Popiah follows one Singaporean family's annual tradition of getting together and making Popiah. Sun Koh's Singapore Panda portrays a Singaporean radio performer's redundancy as his company is bought over by a Chinese corporation.

It is Chinese New Year, a time of reunion, new clothes and glunttony. But for gym instructor Xavier Tan (Joshua Tan) and young tai tai Ping Wong (Felicia Chin), it is also a time of gain, specifically monetary gain in the form of hong baos. The two shysters partner up and pretend to be a 'couple' to convince Ping's wealthy grandmother that Ping has indeed broken off with her older French boyfriend (which she has not) and hand over a $100,000 hong bao for fulfilling the old lady's wish for Ping to have a nice Chinese boyfriend by this Chinese New Year. And as cunning and charming as Xavier and Ping are, they soon find themselves outplayed by fate and destiny as they really begin to fall in love.

Fang Lei is a housewife who leads a peaceful and affluent life with her husband and daughter. But her apparently perfect family life is mired by an equally unfulfilling sex life. She turns to masturbation to find sexual pleasure and begins to dream of a man who makes love to her, giving her energy and a new lease of life. She gets so addicted to him until things between them begins to spin out of control.

Juran has failed the university entrance exams as he is pre-occupied with his first love. As a result, he is forced to prepare for the exams next year. During that period, he and his fellow students face not only the pressure from their studies but problems of all sorts. Unexpectedly, love blossoms in their hearts. On the coming-of-age ceremony, they shout out loud – Do you love me?

Past Present is an exploration of internationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tsai Ming-Liang’s life’s journey in film, both as filmgoer and maker, tracing his philosophy as a director to his childhood experience growing up in Kuching, Malaysia and the importance of moving to Taiwan in the 1970s. In this film, Tsai revisits the old cinemas that he used to frequent with his grandparents and tells the story of how he would watch two films every evening with them. With a strong sense of loss, Tsai rediscovers his past while evaluating the present in which he described as a ‘throwaway era’ where people are no longer able to value things from the past. Tsai’s colleagues and friends, from Ang Lee to Hou Hsiao-Hsien and ApichatpongWeerasethakul, and his constant collaborators like Lee Kang-Sheng and Chen Shiang-Chyi, discuss the uniqueness of his work and him as a person, in search for ever greater freedom and artistry.

When the memories of these elderly people with dementia gradually deteriorate, their family members begin to put together the old photographs and objects, trying to awake the forgotten times of their lives. Every time a story is told, a memory is slowly formed. The whole family becomes closer and they cherish their time together more.