Shaolin – 2011

China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin’s masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape.

Director : Benny Chan
Cast : Andy Lau|Bai Bing|Fan Bingbing|Jackie Chan|Nicholas Tse|Wu Jing|Xing Yu|Xiong Xin-Xin|Yu Shaoqun|Yue Hoi
Genre : Action|Drama
Release Date : 1/20/2011
Country : Hong Kong

When China Met Africa – 2011

A cinematic feature documentary about China’s foray into Africa told through the lives of Chinese adventurers & Zambian power brokers as they negotiate the tricky waters of this rapidly expanding and vital relationship.

Director : Marc Francis|Nick Francis
Cast :
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 10/7/2011
Country : France

Apache 8 – 2011

This is the story of the courageous all-female Apache 8 firefighting unit which has protected their reservation and responded to wildfires around the nation for 30 years. This group, which recently became co-ed, earned the reputation of being fierce, loyal and dependable–and tougher than their male colleagues. Despite facing gender stereotypes and the problems that come with life on the impoverished reservation, the women became known as some of the country’s most elite firefighters. The film focuses on four women from different generations of Apache 8 crewmembers who speak tenderly and often humorously of hardship, loss, family, community and pride in being a firefighter.

Director : Sande Zeig
Cast : Cheryl Bones|Ericka Hinton|Katy Aday|Marjorie Grimes|Nita Quintero|Robert Lacapa|Steffi Kinney
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 11/4/2011
Country : United States

Aarakshan – 2011

The decision by India’s supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.

Director : Apoorva S Badgaiyan|Iti Agarwal|Karan Talwar|Kuldeep Yadav|Palash Singh|Prakash Jha|Rajan Mehta|Ritam Shrivastava
Cast : Aanchal Munjal|Amitabh Bachchan|Deepika Padukone|Hema Malini|Manoj Bajpayee|Mukesh Tiwari|Prateik Babbar|Saif Ali Khan|Tanvi Azmi|Yashpal Sharma
Genre : Drama|Thriller
Release Date : 8/12/2011
Country : India

Fantome Island – 2011

In 1945, at the age of seven, a young Joe Eggmolesse was diagnosed with Leprosy. He was immediately removed from his family and home and transported under police escort over a thousand kilometres to be confined on an island for the treatment of the disease. For the next ten years, a leprosarium for Aboriginal people became his home. A lush tropical idyll off the north east coast of Australia, Fantome Island was the home to a close knit community of indigenous ‘lepers’ who made the most of their existence as people living on the fringes of the marginalised. Now as a 73 year old Joe reflects on his indelible Fantome years. His incredible, poignant story offers a profound insight into one of Australia’s hidden histories.

Director : Sean Gilligan
Cast : Joe Eggmolesse
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 7/13/2011
Country : Australia

The Dark Knight – 2011

In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by feuding warlords, a group of desperate soldiers hatch a plan to steal a Warlord’s treasure and start a new life. Faced with the threat of a horrific death at the hands of the Warlord’s executioners, the men escape into a desolate and forbidden land known only as the Shadowlands. Now the men must flee from the Warlord’s vicious assassins while defending themselves from the terrifying creatures that inhabit the land.

Director : Drew Maxwell
Cast : Aaron Farb|Debra Lopez|Kyle Walsh
Genre : Action|Crime|Drama|Thriller
Release Date : 7/11/2011
Country : United States

Ombak Rindu – 2011

Izzah a simple kampong teacher is sold to a brothel by her uncle on the pretext that they need money for her Aunt’s surgery. Her first customer is Rich playboy Harriz whom she begs to marry her and take her out of the rat hole. He marries her, brings her home, the only good deed he has done in a long time. Unknowingly he falls in love with her, and wants to break his engagement to childhood family friend Mila, but due to family pressure has to marry Mila. Thus begins the triangle of a saga which entangles three lives into a myriad of emotions.

Director : Osman Ali
Cast : Aaron Aziz|Azizah Mahzan|Bront Palarae|Lisa Surihani|Maya Karin|Normah Damanhuri|Zaidi Omar
Genre : Drama
Release Date : 12/1/2011
Country : Malaysia

Tying the Knot – 2011

In a world of fast cars and jealousy, one man must make the ultimate choice between two worlds: a world of love, friendship and commitment, or a world he knows all too well: the world of the bachelor. Will he make the right choice? In a perfect world he would, but the wild rugged coast of Western Norway is no such place. It’s a place where real men make difficult decisions forged by the ancient conflicts of men, women and nature. For one man it may just be too much

Director : Frode N. Nordås
Cast : Bjørn Moan|Håkon Karoliussen|Ingrid M. Tolstad|Maria Solheim Thorsen|Thomas Aske Berg|Vera Holte
Genre : Comedy
Release Date : 4/8/2011
Country : Norway
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