Café Lumière charts the life of a Japanese reporter named Yoko. While Yoko researches an article on real-life Taiwanese musician Jiang Wenye she has to cope with an unexpected pregnancy frowned upon by her traditional parents. Acutely observed and exquisitely realized, Hou Hsiao-hsien's 16th film, Café Lumiére, is a loving tribute to the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu on the centenary of his birth. The film, the first by Hou to be shot in a foreign location, pays homage to Ozu by depicting themes repeated in many of his films: relationships between aging parents, the marriage plans of a grown child, the coming and going on trains, and the quiet contemplation of everyday life.

Other films in this section:

• Amazing Grace
• Casshern
• Dig!
• Falling Angels
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
• Machuca
• Mysterious Skin
• Palindromes
• Republic of Love
• Scared Sacred
• Sky Blue
• Steamboy
• The Take
• Untold Scandal
• Wall (Mur)
• White Skin