VII PILLARS ENTERTAINMENT
HONG KONG LONDON
"The Syrian war is considered to be the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
More than half of all Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, resulting in over 5.5 million refugees."
- The United Nations
3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Broken Keys
Directed by Jimmy Keyrouz
2013. Karim, a pianist, lives in a hideout, in a war-torn village in Syria. His dream is to escape the country to Europe and continue his music career. The only way he can gather money to leave is to sell his most precious possession, the piano he inherited from his mother. But things entangle when his piano is shot. Karim has to embark on a dangerous quest to repair his broken keys...
Through the transcendent power of music, the film explores survival, resistance, defiance, war and hope. It represents the fight for art and the profound impact that it has on a broken society. It’s a reminder that even in a world torn by war, terrorism, and daily abuses of human rights; the beauty of music and its unifying properties don’t lessen, making it a cause worth fighting for.
3 Wins & 13 Nominations
I Am Woman
Directed By Unjoon Moon
1966. Helen Reddy arrives in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. Helen had been told she had won a recording contract, but the record company promptly dashes her hopes by telling her it has enough female stars and suggests she has fun in New York before returning home to Australia.
Helen, without a visa, decides to stay in New York anyway and pursue a singing career, struggling to make ends meet and provide for her daughter. There she befriends legendary rock journalist Lillian Roxon, who becomes her closest confident, and inspires her to write and sing the iconic song “I Am Woman” which becomes the anthem for the second wave feminist movement and galvanises a generation of women to fight for change.
Based On Scariest
Urban Legends In Vietnam
Vietnamese
Horror Story
Directed By Trần Hữu Tấn
Sets the highest ticket presales record in Vietnam film industry, and achieves the biggest opening weekend in 2022, this incredible movie is the first movie in the Vietnamese horror cinematic universe to be inspired by urban legends and ghost stories rumored in folklore. The 3 interwoven stories unfold the terrifying Vietnamese urban legends revolving around an ill-fated superstar behind the iconic sugarcane lady poster, a has-been circus magician worshipping the devil, and a sinister spirit trapped in an old battlefield.
CUBE
Directed By Yasuhiko Shimizu
They awake to find themselves within a mysterious structure: the Cube... Six men and women have been abruptly trapped inside: an engineer, an NPO employee, a part-time worker, a junior high student, a mechanic, and a company director. They share no connections whatsoever. Unable to comprehend their situation, they attempt to escape, but encounter a succession of lethal traps, including heat-sensing lasers, slicing wires, and flamethrowers. Unless their inbuilt codes can be deciphered, there is no way out.The captives are pushed to their physical and psychological limits as they wrestle with extreme tension and anxiety, and human nature slowly rears its ugly head... As fear and distrust swirls around them, and despite seeing no end in sight to their torment, they push on into the depths of the structure, in order to survive.
Will any of them make it out alive?!
In memory of Helen Reddy,
we pay tribute to a trailblazing artist and advocate whose voice left an indelible mark on the music industry and the feminist movement. With her empowering anthem "I Am Woman," Reddy ignited a revolution, inspiring generations of women to find their own strength and voice.
Reddy died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles
on 29 September 2020, at the age of 78.
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