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'Hibiscus' highlights the city's hidden beauty and the warmth of its people that may go by unnoticed on a daily basis but are beautiful reminders to appreciate.
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent.
Zaire, January 1993. Rachel's family, an 8-year-old French girl, lives in Kinshasa in a house overlooking the Congo River. A sensual and intimate film about memory, writing and forgetting.
Hibiscus (Suivai Pilisipi Autagavaia, from short film Manurewa) and the take no nonsense Ruth (Anna-Maree Thomas) have been friends since school. But now Hibiscus is in her final year of university, and her domineering mother doesn't want any boyfriends getting in the way; so Hibiscus enlists Ruth's help, to handle the temptations of a line of potential suitors.
A young cemetery worker has to take care of a girl for 3 days in secret.
A disillusioned London chef visits Nigeria and struggles with her matchmaking mother and restoring the family's rundown hotel. She's heartbroken when she discovers the man she loves is buying it.
A sci-fi noir thriller comedy (of sorts) – concerns agent Kupa, an extra-terrestial alien investigator who is sent to earth to try and find a taoist ‘master’ who is said to be a descendent of Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek army doctor at the time of the Romans, who it is alleged knows the secret of the hibiscus and a cure for a virus known as ‘tarantulism’or the ‘dancing virus’ as it would be known as – referencing the Tarantela dance of Southern Italy.
A comic story about growing up. Fraternal twins April and Clare come of age. The girls' methods of eluding their mom provide amusing hindrance, mental and physical, as the girls search for fulfilling, artistic lives.
Puerto Rican Hibiscus is part home video and part experimental documentary. While visiting my beloved friend Yara in her home country we explore each other's identity through a series of unscripted conversations. These conversations examine how identity is a complex composition of cultural, social, political and spiritual influences. But we do more than examine identity. We revel in it.
Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan, a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng. Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng and ex-lover Wang-jun.
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.
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