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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • A Fallible Girl

    Young Chinese woman has started a mushroom farm in the desert of the Gulf states. Ambition, love, identity, uprooting and a clash of cultures in…
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  • The Love Songs of Tiedan

    Lively, romantic comedy in the Chinese countryside in the 1960s and 70s, before and after the Cultural Revolution, which banned local music traditions
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  • Emperor Visits the Hell

    Satire with a straight face. Free adaptation of chapters from Journey to the West, a novel from the Ming Dynasty moved to contemporary China with…
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  • Ping’an Yueqing

    Investigation into the suspicious death of a campaigner who disappeared under the monstrous wheels of a mine truck. Artist and social activist Ai Weiw
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  • Four Ways to Die in My Hometown

    The effect of people moving away from the Chinese countryside, portrayed in poetic, occasionally stunning and often magical scenes. A student returns
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  • The Hunter and the Skeleton

    In this flash animation of a stylized thangka, a hunter has to outwit a fearsome skeleton monster. Based on an Eastern Tibetan folk tale.
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  • When Night Falls

    Reconstruction of a notorious case in China: a young man kills six policeman, after which his mother is locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Regular…
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  • Walking in Darkness

    A man’s quest for his runaway son, presented in a stylish narrative in which confusion slowly makes way for realisation.
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  • Ash Is Purest White

    Dancer Qiao and gangster Bin’s violent love story plays out from 2001 to 2017 in a rapidly changing China.
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  • Shadow

    Epic battle story with visuals that draw on China’s centuries-old tradition of ink-wash painting, set against next-level fighting sequences to dazzlin
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