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For ten days, in a city in the far west of China, a young Chinese actor and a Belgian filmmaker embark on a relationship that blurs the line between fictional performance and documented reality. The protagonists, played by Jin Jing and Matthias Delvaux, go on a hunt for intimacy in a city that is unfamiliar to them bothRead More »
In the remote Yumei Township of Tibet, the Sangjie Quzha family was once the only household. For 34 years, they persevered against harsh environments, external threats, and the loss of loved ones, guarding the borders through livestock herding. Like resilient Gesang flowers, they rooted themselves on the snowy frontier, safeguarding thousands of square kilometers of territory for their homeland.
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Trip from Vienna to China, the hazmat suits on the aeroplane and the layers of tape sealing off each room in the quarantine hotel conjure up images of crime scenes or medical thrillers.Read More »
A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.Read More »
Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengda’s brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliang’s attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows – for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengda’s wife) is also part of the picture.Read More »
A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city’s lowlife, where street hustlers…Read More »
Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.Read More »
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Cai, a housewife who seems to have lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During her daughter’s basketball matches, she hurts an elderly woman. This event turns out to be a catalyst for a life that is spinning out of control.Read More »
Ting is on the brink of marriage, but still wounded by her father’s departure twenty years earlier. Setting out in search of him and for a sense of resolution, she travels from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, moving through late-night fruit markets and piers soaked in blue light, as an impending summer typhoon grows near. Meeting a childhood friend and reconnecting over a bootleg CD, Ting delves into her family’s secrets and the emotional turmoil still sharply rooted in her life.Read More »