Blue Sun Palace

Evan Bower

The Bus Stop Theatre Co-operative

Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival 2025

The 19th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival returns with a celebration of local and international arthouse films from May 28–31, 2025, at the Bus Stop Theatre.

In the Chinese enclave of Flushing, Queens in New York City, a trio of immigrant women run a massage parlour. Navigating uneven power dynamics with predatory clientele, trying to protect themselves from abusive customers, and scraping by on modest earnings, their days aren’t easy. But their sisterly bond brings them plentiful moments of shared joy, meals, and dreams—a glimpse of home, away from their homelands. One of the women, Didi, has a strange, tenuous relationship with Cheung that oscillates somewhere between romance and companionship. When a violent tragedy strikes, the characters are set adrift within the stifling darkness of grief and find solace within unexpected new connections.Constance Tsang’s debut feature is an intimate, bleak, yet compassionate portrait of the loneliness of displacement, brought to life with introspective performances by a skillful cast, including legendary Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng. In gorgeous 16mm, we witness the space immigrants carve out for themselves and the comfort they find in one another. —Kelly Li

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