Mandarin

When tragedy strikes, an unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Far from home, their labor-filled lives intertwine as they grieve and search for familial connections.Read More »

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Meiting is a hairdresser in Beijing. Her parents were sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. After their divorce Meiting returned to the city to her grandfather’s. Chen Mo is a country boy who came to Beijing looking for work and a better life. He would like to send his blind brother the money necessary for an operation. A tortuous relationship between Meiting and Chen Mo begins.Read More »

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After my first documentary Self-portrait with Three Women, my second self-portrait was painted in a village named 47 KM. This village, located 47 kilometres from Suizhou, Hubei Province, is where my father was born. He left the village when he was 20, but his father, my grandfather, still lives there. In the summer and winter of 2010, through my participation in the Folk Memory Project, I went back to the village, which seems disconnected from my current life, and re-discovered and came to better understand my grandfather, the old villagers who underwent the disaster of the famine 50 years ago, as well as the village, which always perplexed and embarrassed me. What does 47 KM really mean to me? It seems to be like a mirror, I see myself in front of it.Read More »

Three men disabled by an evil warlord become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his mentally-scarred pupil.Read More »

Wu Mi Le aka Let It Be is a documentary recording the lives of several old farmers in Houbi Township, Tainan Country. It generated discussion and debate in the Taiwanese civil society about the impact on agriculture due to its membership in the World Trade Organization.

It is selected as one of the Golden Horse’s 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films in 2010.Read More »

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Rebels in medieval China place secret documents in the hands of Shaolin priests. The list is entrusted by Abbot Wei Hung to a rebel who splits the list into three parts, giving two of the pieces to other rebels. But one of the three is the “Invisible Terrorist”, a spy working for the evil general.Read More »

Nankin, nowadays. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and a man. But Luo Haitao loses control of the situation: he’s drawn with his girlfriend, Li Jing, to the fever of drunken spring nights.

The insubordinate nature of Spring Fever detonated when, bypassing the Chinese authorities, the film premiered in Cannes competition during the five-year ban from filmmaking imposed on Lou Ye. A film that challenges social and moral taboos, alive with stirring rebelliousness and queer sensuality.Read More »

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.Read More »

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A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago…Read More »