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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Keep Cool

    Zhang’s latest film is contemporary in form and content and shot in the streets, apartments, cafés and karaoke-bars of Peking. Bookseller follows sexy
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  • East Palace, West Palace

    Controversial, beautifully photographed and acted film by the maker of Sons is about the nighttime interrogation of a gay by a policeman.
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  • Condolences

    Burial rites become the mise-en-scène in which politicians, the media, a monk and an infuriated neighbour vividly portray the aftermath of an accident
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  • Protect My Country

    Japanese soldiers take a Chinese village: babies get bayoneted, the elderly crucified, able men pressed into the enemy army. A classic piece of anti-J
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  • Unforgettable Memory

    In China, few people want to be reminded of the events of 1989. The maker of Unforgettable Memory is still struggling with the past.
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  • The Eight Hundred Heroes

    800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japan’s Imperial Army – think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visuall
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  • Sun Spots

    Successful Chinese example of minimalist cinema combines beautiful, very sharp HD images without camera movements with a story about a tragic relation
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  • Goodbye

    Delicate short fiction. After an accident, Li Xin ends up with her deceased school friend’s parents. Her stay rips open old wounds.
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  • The Annunciation

    Moving, atmospheric social realism by the young Chinese debutant is about a simple newlywed couple who have moved to the city like so many others…
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  • Yasukuni

    The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo was established as a place of worship for the war dead. Some two million are enshrined there – including more…
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