Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Based on the best-selling novel set during China's cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education.

Best of Global Lens: China
This Special Edition Box Set includes the following four films from the Global Lens Collection: Dam Street, the Cannes award-winning Luxury Car, Stolen Life and Uniform.

Buffalo Boy: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s Vietnam, a young man takes up with a band of nomadic buffalo herders and discovers freedom, violence and love - but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever.

Dam Street: Global Lens Collection
During a time of rigid moral code in China, a sixteen year old girl living in small town discovers she is pregnant, and is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, a marriage proposal probes the depth of her unresolved past.

Dreaming Lhasa
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to India to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. There she embarks on a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.

Electric Shadows
From one of China's newest cinematic voices comes a charming tale about the days when the cinema enchanted China's masses, and audiences breathed and dreamed as one.

First Love and Other Pains & One of Them
Delighting gay festival-goers around the world, these two audience favorites explore the phenomenon of first love - the discovery, the thrill, the fear, and the heartache.

Isle, The
A Film by Kim Ki-Duk. The Isle tells tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie, remote lake selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night.

Knowledge of Healing, The
The Knowledge of Healing is an illuminating examination of Tibetan medicine, which has developed over two millennia into an amazingly successful method of healing

Luxury Car: Global Lens Collection
In this suspenseful award-winning drama, an old schoolteacher travels from his small village to the city of Wuhan in search of his missing son, who his dying wife wants to see one last time.

Mongolian Ping Pong
A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the magnificent and remote grasslands of Mongolia.

Of Love and Eggs: Global Lens Collection
Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and romantic love in this humorous yet poignant film are revealed through the eyes of three Jakarta children.

Opera Jawa: Global Lens Collection
Inspired by the famous story “The Abduction of Sita” from the ancient great classic the Ramayana, Opera Jawa, about a passionate love triangle, is a musical like no other in cinema.

Personals, The
A Film by Chen Kuo-fu. Honored at Cannes, The Personals presents "funny, beautifully observed modern day sexual relationships...recalls Hal Hartley!" (Variety)

Please Vote for Me
Chronicling the first open elections of a third-grade class at a school in central China, this documentary is a witty, engaging macro-lens view of human nature, China’s one-child policy and the democratic electoral process.

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
In 1975-79, the Khmer Rouge waged a campaign of genocide on Cambodia’s population. The detention center 'S21', where 17,000 people were tortured and killed, is now a museum where former Khmer Rouge are employed as guides.

Secret Pleasures
This scintillating box set features four Asian films about love, longing and fishhooks: Kim Ki-Duk's The Isle, Xiao Jiang's Electric Shadows, Chen Kuo-fu's The Personals, and Monika Treut's Ghosted.

Shadow Kill: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s southern India, a hangman named Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out.

Silent Waters
Silent Waters is set in 1979 in Pakistan, when General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the country and stoked the fires of Islamic nationalism.

So Close To Paradise
A Film by Wang Xiaoshuai. A striking noir gangster film reminiscent of Hollywood 's classic B movies from the 1940s and 50s.

Stolen Life: Global Lens Collection
A young girl, Yanni, is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. Surprising everyone, she is accepted to college. But as she prepares to begin her new life, an encounter with a delivery man triggers a series of unexpected events.

Twilight Samurai, The : Empire Collection
This Academy Award nominated film is the story of a low-ranking samurai living in the fading days of the Shogun period in Japan. When news of his sword-fighting prowess gets out, his superiors order him on a dangerous mission.

Uniform: Global Lens Collection
A young tailor discovers a solution for his problems: a policeman’s uniform, left in the family shop. A humorous but realistic portrait of the clashing values of modern-day China.