Synopsis

By the time taxi driver Pak and retired single father Hoi meet, both men have long since left behind their days of youth. Diligent providers, they take great pride in the families they have raised, but in their brief initial encounter, the two men sense they share a special bond. Their budding, if hesitant, friendship unleashes a torrent of feelings that they’ve taken great pains to repress, and as each casts back over their personal histories, the promise of a loving future together takes hold. Queer filmmaker and Chicago International Film Festival alum Ray Yeung’s (Front Cover) sanguine, moving tale celebrates the possibilities of finding romance and true connection at any age.

“Strong performances by veterans Tai Bo and Ben Yuen make the protagonists’ struggle concrete and affecting.”
–Variety

Synopsis

Personal, political, philosophical, and emotional, this collection of films showcases the very best in documentary form—from essayistic meditations to vérité assemblages and deeply-felt human portraits. Featuring works by Kanas Liu, Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone, Katarzyna Warzecha, Carmine Grimaldi, Erica Beebe, and Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf.

Shot on the streets of Hong Kong during the 2019 Extradition Bill protests, Comrades (Hong Kong) is a moving portrait of uprising and solidarity. Huntsville Station (U.S.) observes the comings and goings of a Greyhound station near Huntsville State Penitentiary—the first stop for inmates released on parole. Sifting through old letters between his parents, Adam uncovers an extraordinary family secret in the emotional animated We Have One Heart (Poland). Profiling a pastor, his wife, and a dwindling congregation, When Two or Three (U.S.) is a picture of faith and the search for God in small-town Arizona. Radia (UK) is a shepherd and farmer whose childhood and circumstances  prevented her from access to education. The film is an urgent observation about prescriptive fate, agency, and determination. How to Disappear (Austria) contemplates the act of desertion within the world of a videogame.