People's Hospital No. 6 is one of the largest in Shanghai. Here, medical staff, patients and families with disrupted lives rub shoulders. Through intersecting stories, a portrait of today's China emerges between capitalism and traditional culture. Faced with the vagaries of life and unequal access to healthcare, Chinese tenderness and a sense of humor emerge when we least expec...
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...