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  • Bing Wang – Youth (Spring) (2023)

    Bing Wang2021-2030DocumentaryFrance

    Synopsis:
    Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. Time and space to meet is missing them. So, they communicate through QQ, MSN China. They live as adults but they are teenagers.Read More »

  • Bing Wang – Gudu AKA Alone (2013) (HD)

    2011-2020Bing WangChinaDocumentary
    Gudu (2013) (HD)
    Gudu (2013) (HD)

    Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. Their parents are nowhere to be seen. The three little girls send their days working in the fields or wondering in the village. As their aunt finds difficult to provide food to the girls, the father returns to the village. He has come to take the girls with him to the city but he then agrees to leave the older one under the supervision of her grandfather.Read More »

  • Yi-ao Wang – Ji Le Dian AKA Great Happiness (2020)

    2011-2020ChinaComedyDramaYi-ao Wang
    Ji Le Dian (2020)
    Ji Le Dian (2020)

    An insightful, ironic look at the challenges and contradictions that young generations are facing in China, Wang Yao’s auspicious debut that welcomes a new voice into the firmament of local independent cinema and one that is poised to bridge the gap between engaged auteur cinema and lighter, yet socially relevant, comedies, aimed at a wider audienceRead More »

  • Yuan Zhang – Dong gong xi gong AKA East Palace, West Palace (1996)

    Yuan Zhang1991-2000AsianChinaDrama
    Dong gong xi gong (1996)
    Dong gong xi gong (1996)

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    The most daring and achieved of all the ‘illegal’ independent films made in China in the ’90s – and quite probably the last, since it prompted the Film Bureau to formally outlaw unauthorised production and confiscate the directors Zhang Yuan’s passport.Read More »

  • Marva Nabili – Nightsongs (1982)

    Marva Nabili1981-1990DramaUSA
    Nightsongs (1982)
    Nightsongs (1982)

    NIGHTSONGS was made in New York’s Chinatown and explores experiences of exile with suitable restraint. The cramped apartment of a family of Chinese immigrants is visited by their Chinese-Vietnamese cousin, who becomes the silent witness of the difficulties of the individual family members, whose lives are marked by harsh working conditions and their fight for recognition. NIGHTSONGS is structured by the letters that this new arrival in the US writes to her husband, who is looking for their missing children in a refugee camp.Read More »

  • Angela Chan – Kwai ching AKA Maybe It’s Love (1984)

    1981-1990Angela ChanDramaHong KongMystery
    Kwai ching (1984)
    Kwai ching (1984)

    A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »

  • Ann Hui – Ke tu qiu hen AKA Song Of the Exile (1990)

    Ann Hui1981-1990ArthouseDramaHong Kong
    Ke tu qiu hen (1990)
    Ke tu qiu hen (1990)

    Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.Read More »

  • Andrew Lau & Jing Wong – To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui (1994)

    Andrew Lau1991-2000ActionCrimeHong KongJing Wong
    To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui (1994)
    To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui (1994)

    An undercover cop Ah Kit and his best friend Ah Bong are sent in to get evidence on a crime boss known as Coffin Tung. After a raid goes wrong and Tung is killed, his gang splits into two factions.Read More »

  • Ferenc Moldoványi – Az út AKA The Way (1997)

    1991-2000DramaFerenc MoldoványiHungary
    Az út (1997)
    Az út (1997)

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    The voyage of an old Chinese professor, living in Budapest, to his and present-day China. Can he free himself from his anxieties after years of humiliation? Can one make up for things lost?Read More »

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