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  • Story Chen – Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya AKA The Water Murmurs (2022)

    China2021-2030Short FilmStory Chen
    Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (2022)
    Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (2022)

    When an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small riverside town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend.Read More »

  • Wenguang Wu – Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)

    Wenguang Wu1981-1990ChinaDocumentary
    Bumming in Beijing The Last Dreamers (1990)
    Bumming in Beijing The Last Dreamers (1990)

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    A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future.

    This is an EXTENDED CUT of this important “6h generation” doc.Read More »

  • Wenguang Wu – Fuck Cinema (2005)

    Wenguang Wu2001-2010ChinaDocumentary
    Fuck Cinema (2005)
    Fuck Cinema (2005)

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    This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams or become famous through the film industry. One of the main characters of this documentary is named Wang, a young man from the countryside, aged 28. He comes to Beijing out of a love for the cinema; however, all he can do every day is line up outside the gate of a film studio in the hope of landing a job as an extra, getting 30 yuan for one day! During his stay in Beijing he writes a film script based on his own experience in the city as an extra. He thinks his play presents the darkness and desperation of survival in China. Then he wants to find an investor or a director who can produce his play as an “underground film”, because in his opinion many Chinese directors are successful on the international stage this way.Read More »

  • Qing Zhao – Please Remember Me (2015)

    2011-2020ChinaQing Zhao
    Please Remember Me (2015)
    Please Remember Me (2015)

    87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient Lou has forgotten everyone but her husband Feng, who has been her only caretaker for the past 10 years. Yet after a medical check-up, Feng was diagnosed with a pancreas mass. The man who went through a life of hardship in good spirits finally bursts into tears. Before going to the hospital, he takes her out shopping and makes her pretty. Does it mean their time of separation is coming near? Can they still live a life with dignity and freedom? On the way home, they walk hand in hand as Lou says, “We are together no matter what.”
    —Violet Du FengRead More »

  • Violet Du Feng – Hidden Letters (2022)

    Violet Du Feng2021-2030ArthouseChinaDocumentary
    Hidden Letters (2022)
    Hidden Letters (2022)

    Throughout history, women have survived the stifling strictures of patriarchy by using their own codes of communication — be it intergenerational secrets, whisper networks or gestures legible only to other women. Several centuries ago, in Jiangyong County in southern China, women went a step further, inventing an entire language that they used to write songs, poetry and furtive missives to one another.

    This fascinating language, Nushu, is the subject of the documentary “Hidden Letters,” though if you’re expecting an illuminating deep dive into its history, you’ll be disappointed. The director, Violet Du Feng, uses Nushu mostly as a cursory framing device for a broad portrait of gender relations in modern China, structured around the stories of two Nushu practitioners: a divorced museum guide, Xin Hu, and a soon-to-be-married musician, Simu Wu.Read More »

  • Kar-Wai Wong & Ronald Zee – Fan hua AKA Blossoms Shanghai (2023)

    Kar-Wai Wong2021-2030ChinaDramaRomanceRonald Zee
    Fan hua (2023)
    Fan hua (2023)

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    Set against the backdrop of massive economic growth in the 1990s, the story follows A Bao, a self-made millionaire and his journey from being a young opportunist with a troubled past to accumulating dazzling wealth in the city of Shanghai. It also follows his entanglement with four women who represent the pursuits of his life: adventure, honour, love and innocence.Read More »

  • Ho Yim – Tian pu sa AKA Buddha’s Lock (1987)

    1981-1990AsianChinaDramaHo Yim
    Tian pu sa (1987)
    Tian pu sa (1987)

    The story about the arrest and enslavement of a crashed American airman by a backward tribe of the Yi people in central Sichuan during WWII.Read More »

  • Shaohong Li – Hong xi fu AKA The Red Suit (2000)

    Shaohong Li1991-2000ChinaDrama
    Hong xi fu (1997)
    Hong xi fu (1997)

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    Modern-day urban problems like unemployment and teenage depression come under the microscope. Husband and wife lose their jobs, and their daughter is under considerable stress studying for her college exams. Meanwhile, grandmother is having an unexpected romantic liaison. Will the family be able to pull together to solve their problems?Read More »

  • Xiaopeng Tian – Shen hai AKA Deep Sea (2023)

    2021-2030AnimationChinaFantasyXiaopeng Tian
    Shen hai (2023)
    Shen hai (2023)

    A girl strays into the dreamy deep sea world. In the deepest part of the sea, all secrets are hidden.Read More »

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