Gwei Lun-Mei

After years in America, Chi returns to Taiwan for her grandmother’s funeral, reminisces about her childhood, and experiences her country as a democracy.

After winning the Berlinale Golden Bear with Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan returns with a hyper-stylised noir set in modern China’s underbelly. Twisting the conventions of the genre, this impressively crafted choreography of violence, moral decay and neon colours is striking, intoxicating cinema.

Zhang Zili wasn't always a badly paid security guard. He was once one of the best detectives on the police force. That is until injuries sustained during an investigation into a gruesome and unsolved murder case forced him into early retirement. That was five years ago and the killings have started again.

John Lawlor is a pit-bull DEA agent married to his job. Joey King is a top “Transporter” in Taipei .The two of them weren’t supposed to fall in love, but fate brought them together… before forces of crime and corruption tore them apart. Now, 15 years later, fate puts Joey and John on a collision course during a weekend in Taipei.

A masked freedom fighter, a female warrior, and a corrupt, Ming Dynasty eunuch converge at a remote inn that sits atop a buried city of treasures.