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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

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  • Fujian Blue

    Atmospheric, energetic and topical début by the young Chinese Weng is situated in his home province of Fujian. The first part is about the petty…
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  • I Love Beijing

    After divorcing his wife, a taxi-driver from Beijing pathetically hunts for love in all ranks of society. The hunt leads to fascinating encounters.
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  • Life Track

    A man without arms, who has withdrawn to a remote spot in China, meets a deaf and dumb woman who is on the run. Two…
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  • River Without Buoys

    Intense, visceral, powerfully physical, this is a tale of three tough survivors sailing a lumber raft past villages caught up in political violence in
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  • We Went to Wonderland

    This is a prime example of how to make an accessible and convincing film about complex and personal subjects on a low budget and without…
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  • Black Snow

    Urban alienation and despair mark this dark, politically daring story of an ex-con (the great Chinese actor Jiang Wen) with no home to return to.…
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  • Woman Demon Human

    A powerfully unorthodox story of an opera actress whose onstage persona is the male underworld god Zhong Kui. Part biopic, part fantasy, part modernis
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  • Fengming, a Chinese Memoir

    Intense documentary about the ageing journalist He Fengming who tells the sad but fascinating story of her life. Oral history in its most pure, effect
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  • Crude Oil

    Wang Bing headed for a plateau in the Gobi desert to show just how much China needs oil at the moment. Just how hard they…
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  • Only Child, Upward, Downward, Forward, Backward, Rightward and Leftward

    Not a film with easy chatter. Modern men tackle the subjects of the great philosophers in conversations. Also of great historic thinkers. But don’t th
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