3 Needles

Available in USA only. Three dramatic AIDS stories intertwine: Featuring Lucy Liu as a plasma-smuggler in China; Stockard Channing as the mother of an HIV+ porn star (Shawn Ashmore) in Canada; and Chloe Sevigny, Sandra Oh and Olympia Dukakis as nuns in Africa. This intense social drama from writer-director Thom Fitzgerald chronicles the spread of AIDS on three continents — Asia, Africa and North America — and the wrenching, controversial choices that three sets of people make to cope with the disease. An all-star cast including Stockard Channing, Lucy Liu and Sandra Oh leads this powerful exploration of the ignorance, misinformation, stigma and greed that have fed the spread of the global epidemic. In SOUTH AFRICA, Clara is a Novice in the order of the Mission for the Propagation of the Faithful. Living among the tribes on the Wild Coast, her mission is to convert the rapidly dying Africans to Catholicism before it’s too late, urging the dying to accept Jesus. Naive and optimistic, Cla