Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
Overview of films
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All corners of the world
Before Tsai acquired international recognition with Rebels of the Neon God he made television films, of which the best two are being screened in Ro
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After separation
Chinese hit. In a romantic comedy, a woman has to choose between love and study abroad.
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For fun
Old man sets up his own Peking Opera troupe where old people sing and quarrel. Opening film of the festival.
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Self portrait
Photos and voices tell of changes in family and society. By the maker of RED BEADS.
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The puppetmaster
Hou’s sublime film is the story of the puppeteer Li from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan up to the US bombardment during liberation.
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1966, my time in the red guards
25 years later: interviews with 5 Ex-Red Guards, among them Tian Zhuangzhuang (director of THE BLUE KITE).
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Red beads
Imposing début in which young man fantasises a psychiatric institution. Between nightmare and black comedy.
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Eighteen
Very stylised love story about man who finds himself in a fishing village and never leaves.
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Beijing Bastards
Impressionist portrait of Beijing’s rock generation. Banned in China. Made with aid from the Hubert Bals Fund.
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Stand up, don’t grovel!
Social satire plays with today’s themes: nouveau riche, the declining power of the Party and a flabby intellectual class.
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The peach blossom land
Refined portrait of a theatre group rehearsing a play about a dying man and his memories of a great love in 1948 in Shanghai.
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No more applause
Social criticism and farcical humour when the housing shortage forces a divorced couple to stay on in the same flat.