Mandarin

A cute, drunk realtor (Shu Qi), dating her married boss, pukes on a single, sober cop at a Beijing hotel after partying. They keep bumping into each other after that.Read More »

In 1945, during Japanese invasion, two young women raised in a nunnery guide a group of Chinese soldiers across the Taiwanese countryside.Read More »

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Excerpt from “Slow Time, Visible Cinema: Duration, Experience, and Spectatorship” by Tiago de Luca, originally published in Cinema Journal Vol. 56, No. 1 (Fall, 2016)

A limping woman (Chen Shiang-chyi), with a broom in hand, walks into an empty cinema auditorium framed in a static long shot. She enters the frame from the right, walks up the stairs while slowly sweeping the floor, crosses the upper part of the auditorium, and then climbs down the stairs on the other side and leaves the frame from the left, an action that lasts nearly three minutes. Read More »

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.Read More »

Two students travel across rural China looking for some meaning to their lives.Read More »

Ying Ling delicately washes the face of the motionless body. Using a damp cloth, she carefully cleans the hands, feet and finally the torso. The 17-year-old girl is far from home, preparing for her exams at one of China’s largest funeral parlours.

We’re excited to present one of our discoveries from this year’s Berlinale, right off the back of its tour across UK cinemas. Salter’s humanist coming-of-age doc offers a tender, intimate, often funny look at womanhood in modern China. A little big film about life, death, and everything in between.Read More »

Synopsis:
The film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall. On the way to the Communist base, the pilot falls in love with a girl soldier whose lingering memory of being raped by the Japanese makes her a determined fighter. Half a century later, the American pilot returns to the Yellow River to pay his respects to the native people who rescued him.Read More »

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The “rightist” Xu Lingjun went to work on a ranch in northwest. He received care from local herdsmen and married a rural girl, Li Xiuzhi. He resolutely gave up the chance to live in US and decided to stay and build his motherland.Read More »

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.Read More »