Shengze Zhu’s third feature shines a light on the curious world of live-streaming, a singularly contemporary form of human connection and commerce wherein “anchors” document their lives and interact with a virtual audience. Cobbled together from 800 hours of live-streaming footage, Present.Perfect. advances a fascinating documentary portrait of Chinese society by focusing on the most marginalized of these anchors: a chain-smoking burn victim, an uncoordinated street dancer, a man with growth-hormone deficiency, a cattle farm worker, and many others. What emerges is an indelible vision of the world we live in today, when the boundaries between the real and the virtual have never been more porous.

Wan.mei.xian.zai.shi.2019.SUBBED.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 3 min
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https://nitro.download/view/4D6D34DD799C94E/Wan.mei.xian.zai.shi.2019.SUBBED.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

Language(s):Chinese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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There are the images of before, the images of after and the letters. The images of after come first, they stem from the same surveillance camera in Wuhan, empty streets that only throng with people again on April 4th, 2020.

1.36GB | 1h 26m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F56ABB7C8176A3C/A.River.Runs.Turns.Erases.Replaces.2021.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv

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Subtitles:None

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Synopsis:
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker’s family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys, frustrations and the struggle for survival. The meals unfold in real-time through thirteen static, long takes. Each take captures with vivid detail the reality of the relationships between the different family members. As the seasons unfold, so does time and the echoes for better working conditions penetrate the frame. Issues such as the one-child policy and the possibilities for better wages weigh heavily on the minds of the three-generation family. Thus, the room where the family gathers night after night becomes an observational microcosm of the transformations that the Chinese working class faces on a daily basis. By examining the lives of migrant workers, who left their rural home-towns to look for a better life in cities, the film creates a powerful and moving meditation on China’s economic boom and massive urbanization. Another Year is an extremely acute depiction of the complexities of the Chinese economy and society.

5.94GB | 3h 00mn | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A79DCDA7988DE50/Another_Year_(Shengze_Zhu,_2016).mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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