The Pawnshop: A place of misfortune or hope?
The pawnshop. The one place that thrives on the misfortunes of others, yet to some, offers hope and redemption.
The pawnshop. The one place that thrives on the misfortunes of others, yet to some, offers hope and redemption.
Philippines | Drama | 2009 | 95 minutes | Filipino (with English subtitles) | PG | $10
Director: Milo Sogueco
Premieres 6th August 2010
Macau | Drama | 2010 | 75 minutes | Cantonese (with English subtitles) | PG | $10
Director: Thomas Lim
Premieres 17th July 2010
2010 | Documentary | India | 30 min | FREE
Directed by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
In the world’s largest democracy, live thousands of men, women and children with lost homes and forgotten names. Sheltering one of the largest refugee populations in the world, India still lacks a comprehensive domestic refugee law, that could guarantee them their basic human needs and a life of dignity.
2009 | Drama | Sri Lanka | Sinhala (English subtitles) | 90 min | PG | $10
Director: Prasanna Vithanage
Premieres 18 June 2010
2003 | Drama | Sri Lanka | Sinhala & Tamil (English subtitles) | 108 min | PG | $10
Director: Prasanna Vithanage
Premieres 18 June 2010
The Game of Their Lives (PG)
2002 | Documentary | North Korea | English and Korean with English subtitles | 80 mins | $10
Director: Daniel Gordon
Escorts Over Tiger Hills 虎山行
1969 Mandarin Colour 95mins
Director : Wang Xinglei
Cast : Zhou Xuan, Qiao Hong
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