Better Days

Asia Society Southern California is pleased to partner with the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) on its screenings of films that have been submitted by Asian countries for Oscar and Golden Globe consideration for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language, respectively. AWFF aims to assist the filmmakers in their campaigns for award success by promoting their films through screenings and events.

Better Days                                                                                                                           

2021 Oscars Submission from Hong Kong (feature film)

Synopsis:

Nian finds her life at a standstill when faced by relentless bullying from her peers as she prepares for her college entrance exam. Fate brings her together with small-time criminal Bei, but before they can retreat into a world of their own, both are dragged into the middle of a murder investigation that will change their lives forever. In this dramatic thriller, Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang paints a bleak picture of an oppressive society, in the guise of a gripping fairy-tale love story, exposing the dark world of bullying and societal pressures of achievement facing today’s youth.

• Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
• Duration: 135 minutes
• Director: Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang
• Language(s): Mandarin
• Subtitles: English
• Producer: Yuet-Jan Hui
• Screenwriter: Wing-Sum Lam, Yuan Li, Yimeng Xu, Jiuyue Xi
• Principal Cast: Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Yee

*Screening available in U.S. ONLY

General Admission: $6, 20% off with promo code AWFFASSC 
ASSC Members: Be the first 20 to RSVP and get FREE tickets, please email to RSVP_LA@asiasociety.org

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite and the viewing link will be emailed to you from "Asiania x Aikhun" (contact@aikhun.com). Please check your Junk/Spam folder. The viewing link is active for 24 hours Pacific Time on the screening dates. The link will not work in advance and will expire at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the screening date.

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About Asian World Film Festival:

The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens international films from Asia submitted for the Academy Awards® and Golden Globes®

The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), now in its fifth year, brings the best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of Filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from more than 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India. This festival is unique in its concept as it predominantly screens films from countries within the Asian Continent that have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and to the Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film.

www.asianworldfilmfest.org