Drift

Running time: 91 mins

The difficulty of keeping the past in the past. Robert, a troubled former driver in illegal street racing, returns to his hometown harboring a dark and painful past. Determined to turn his life around, he takes a job at a car repair shop but becomes distracted by Alice, a local English teacher who catches his eye on the bus. An intense intrigue takes over, and Robert finds himself going to great lengths to spend time with her under a false identity. However, as the two forge a bond, their closeness reveals its danger, and the past threatens to unravel. A brooding and tense drama, Drift toes the line of a quiet thriller as it steadily pulsates through the buried past of its characters. - Vivian Yuen