2011 / 10.45 min / Colour
Director : T. Surendra.
Period : 563 to 483 BC
(Based on a Bodhi myth viz. Chandalika)
Synopsis
If you love someone
And your love is unrequited, then...
Destroying that person is unhealthy,
Sharing a pure friendship is healthy,
Natural like Prakriti



* Selected at Florence Indian Film Festival at Italy





2002 / 99 min / Color / Mandarin
Director & Producer : Zhang Yimou
Script : Feng Li, Bin Wang, Zhang Yimou
Music : Tan Dun
Cinematography : Christopher Doyle
Cast : Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen
based on the story of Jing Ke's assassina-tion attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC.

Plot
In ancient China during the Warring States Period, a nameless prefect of a small jurisdiction arrives at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin, who has survived an attempt on his life by the assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword, and therefore forbidden visitors closer than 100 paces to his throne. 'Nameless' claims that he had slain the three assassins and he displays their weapons before the king, who allows Nameless to sit closer to him and tell him his story.

Nameless recounts killing Long Sky ,later to meet Flying Snow and Broken Sword and that he set them against each other until Snow killed Sword and was herself slain by Nameless. As the tale concludes, the king expresses disbelief and accuses Nameless of staging the duels with the assassins, who surrendered their lives to allow Nameless to gain the king's trust and take the king's life.

Nameless admits that he is a native of the Zhao state and that his family was killed by Qin soldiers, and confesses that he defeated Sky without killing him and had proposed co-operation to Snow and Sword. After Snow's apparent death, Sword approached Nameless and told him that the only way to achieve peace was to unite the states under a common dynasty; namely that of Qin, which alone has the ability to do so.

The king, affected by the tale and by Sword's understanding of his dream to unify China, ceases to fear Nameless. Meanwhile, Snow learns that Sword had convinced Nameless to forgo the assassination, kills Sword, and later kills herself. At the Qin palace, the king reluctantly orders Nameless killed, being urged thereto by his officers. As the film ends, Nameless receives a hero's funeral and a closing text identifies the king as Qin Shi Huang.

Awards :
• Hero was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards
• Hero received seven Hong Kong Film Awards in 2003
• Hero won joint Best Film at the Hundred Flowers Awards in 2003