Louis Vuitton Hawaii International FIlm Festival 2008

In honor of the SMART (Student Media Art Exchange) Xchange between ACM and SHU, the festival is proud to present selections from this year's SHU omnibus. This program is free to the public. LAID TO REST – Director: MAO Yonghua CANDY – Director: ZHAO Le DELIVER THE CITY – Director: ZHU Yingxin TWO IN ONE - Director: JI Zhonglu SELECTIVE MEMORY – Director: YU Lu

A modest tale of a teen son reconciling with his mother, SHI QI gains depth from an understated performance by Joan Chen. Set among the She minority in a hilly region of Zhejiang, story begins with a village celebration for teen Tianyi (Vision West), who's going abroad to study. Tianyi character functions as a contrast to the main character, one of his old friends, Zhong Qiqi (Sam Chow) -- aka Shi Qi ("Seventeen") -- who's holed up at home. Alienated from his mom (Chen), who supposedly abandoned him at age 2 and took him back eight years later, Shi Qi feels he's been robbed of life's chances, and finally determines to leave his hometown. But mom comes along for the ride, leading to a gradual rapprochement and the revelation of a secret. --Variety

Three young men navigate the dilemmas of being gay in modern China, torn between the lure of big city life and the demands of Chinese tradition. "Frog" Cui and his friends live and work in cosmopolitan Beijing, reveling in the freedom that it affords them. But does their happiness come at the expense of their mothers and fathers? Can they be gay, and still be good sons? The film is directed by Ruby Yang who, with producer Thomas Lennon, won a documentary Oscar in 2006.

Urtin duu (traditional Mongolian folk) singer Qiqige decides to go to Beijing to work, while her husband Batu decides to stay in Inner Mongolia and work for a horse-riding club. While working at the club, Batu schemes to buy a rare Mongolian horse and return it to the wild, which causes an argument between the two and ends with tragic results. URTIN DUU chronicles one woman’s spiritual journey as she searches for a way to forgive herself and renew her passion for life and singing.