For 200 years groups of Lahu have been migrating from southwestern China into the highlands of Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" region.Though they share much with other migrants in the ethnic patchwork of the region, the Lahu maintain a vigorous sense of themselves as a distinct people. New Years is their prime time for celebrating what it means to be Lahu.
After conspiring with a conniving fox demon to kill the emperor and seize power, King Zhou reigns as a tyrant so brutal that he incurs the wrath of Heaven. In a final attempt to save the mortal world from desperate peril, the gods decide to intervene and invest in an unlikely champion brave enough to challenge the evil king even if it may cost him everything.
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there's a lot to celebrate.
A Vietnamese concert film to celebrate Vietnamese New Year.
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
A young boy, Nezha, is birthed from a heavenly pearl by the Primeval Lord of Heaven. Born with unique powers, Nezha finds himself as an outcast who is hated and feared. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, the young boy must choose between good and evil in order to break the shackles of fate and become the hero.
4 different couples spend one romantic week together over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open for the possibilities of new love. Heartbroken after being dumped, Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun who also has left Seoul behind. Yong-chan and Yaolin are an international couple soon to get married, but their already-growing marriage blues begin to get worse as Yong-chan is swindled out of his wedding savings. A Paralympic snowboarder Rae-hwan pops a question to his long-time girlfriend Oh-wol. They are a perfect match in their eyes, but not in the eyes of others.
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. Includes French SDH.
A thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. The album is the band's follow-up to 2021's Grammy-nominated Jubilee, which explored happier feelings than their first two albums. The songs, by lead singer and author Michelle Zauner, are said to return to a darker, "gothic-gloomy" melancholy inspired by the "psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration." Recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, the album is the band's first to be recorded in a professional studio setting, instead of in-home studios and other improvised locations. Zauner worked with producer Blake Mills, best known for his works with Bob Dylan and Fiona Apple. It features the singles, "Orlando in Love" and "Mega Circuit.”
Requiem is the second studio album from singer-songwriter and producer keshi. The Texas native first gained recognition on SoundCloud in 2017 for his original songs and lo-fi and R&B style. His 2018 EP THE REAPER received support from BTS's RM and has over 600 million streams. Keshi's debut album, Gabriel, was released in 2022 and earned him Billboard's Top New Artist Debut.
Expectations is the debut major label studio album by American singer, songwriter, actress, and author Hayley Kiyoko. It features the electropop singles, "Sleepover," "Feelings," and "Curious." Hayley Kiyoko has also been featured in campaigns for fashion brands like Charles & Keith, including their Lunar New Year collections.
A Matter of Time is the third studio album by Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey. The album represents a shift from her earlier focus on jazz preservation toward exploring a more vulnerable and emotionally expressive side. Laufey collaborated with longtime producer Spencer Stewart and Aaron Dessner of the National to develop a sound that balances emotional depth with broader musical influences. Thematically, the album addresses topics such as friendship breakups, apprehension about love, and personal introspection. Laufey described the project as an opportunity to explore more complex and imperfect aspects of herself. Featuring the singles "Silver Lining," "Tough Luck," "Lover Girl," and "Snow White."
Crush Songs is the debut solo studio album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead vocalist Karen O, featuring the lead single "Rapt." The songs were written and recorded in private during a time of emotional discomfort. She describes the album as, "the soundtrack to what was an ever-continuing love crusade."
A Man Alive is the fourth studio album by alternative folk band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The subject matter of the album was inspired by Thao Nguyen's relationship with her estranged father; however, the album is upbeat in its musical approach. The decision to pair personal subject matter with upbeat music was a conscious one, inspired by reactions to the band's live performances. "The most fulfilling parts of our live show, that we love the most and what the crowd seemed to love the most were beat and bass driven. I wanted to move away from chordally based songs, and I wanted to rely more heavily on the beat and the groove. We wanted to pay more tribute to hip-hop influences...Once I realized what this record would be about, then it was definitely a non-negotiable in that it would be fun to perform."
Gloria is the latest album by LA-based composer/producer/guitarist Dustin Wong. Wong has established a multifaceted career over the last two decades that encompasses his solo work centered around guitar performance and live looping, roles as a guitarist in Baltimore-based bands Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine, and a wide catalog of collaborations. In composing his solo music, Wong has always transmuted his own life experiences into the thematic source material for emotionally resonant works rippling with fine-grain details and intricate looping architectures. With Gloria, the composer channels specific memories and pieces of his family history into a deeply personal narrative arc focused on his grandmother Gloria Violet Lee Wong, who passed away in January 2024, just shy of her 96th birthday. Using a road trip they took together down the west coast of America in 2023 as the direct inspiration for the individual scenes and flashes of imagery that form the album’s continuously unfolding structure, Wong presents Gloria as a memorial to her storied life and a celebration of the warmth and kindness that characterized their close relationship.
Yaeji is a charismatic singer/songwriter and producer whose music evolved from hip-hop-infused house to elaborate left-field pop. On her debut album, With a Hammer, she balances introspection with aggression, with several songs about destroying everything and starting over again. Yaeji sings in both English and Korean over ambient sounds, drum’n’bass, and trip-hop.
A superpower of China's burgeoning music world" (Washington Post), Long Yu releases Gateways, the second album in his and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's new partnership with Deutsche Grammophon. A celebration of the 140th anniversary of China's oldest orchestra, this album is the first in a series of SSO albums featuring works by important Chinese composers, like the renowned Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen, whose "Wu Xing" (The Five Elements) and "La joie de la souffrance" (The Joy of Suffering) are heard here.
Steven Zhu, known mononymously as ZHU, is an American electronic music producer, DJ, singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and filmmaker who has been active since the beginning of 2014. ZHU's ambitious new album, GRACE, is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2021 release, Dreamland. The GRAMMY-nominated artist recorded most of the album in his hometown of San Francisco at the iconic Grace Cathedral. ZHU teamed up with Devault and BabyJake on lead single "Revelations."