Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

Overview of films

• Grandpa Ge

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Han Gang | 90' | China | World premiere

  Beautiful feature about old man who stoically clings on to his own lifestyle. Actor from JU DOU.

• I have graduated

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  64' | China | International premiere

  Student at Beijing Film School interviews fellow students who were active on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

• King Chau and Lady Yu

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Alex Law | 90' | China | -

  1981 TV version of story on which Chen Kaige based his FAREWELL TO MY CONCUBINE.

• Moonlight boy

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Yu Wei-yen | 95' | China | -

  Moving surrealist ghost story between death and life: after an accident, the soul of a young man haunts his family.

• No more applause

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Hu Guan | 90' | China | International premiere

  Social criticism and farcical humour when the housing shortage forces a divorced couple to stay on in the same flat.

• The peach blossom land

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Stan Lai | 107' | China | -

  Refined portrait of a theatre group rehearsing a play about a dying man and his memories of a great love in 1948 in Shanghai.

• The puppetmaster

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Hou Hsiao-hsien | 142' | Taiwan | -

  Hou’s sublime film is the story of the puppeteer Li from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan up to the US bombardment during liberation.

• Rebels of the neon god

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Tsai Ming-liang | 106' | Taiwan | -

  Stunning début about lonely and bored young people in Taipei.

• Red beads

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  He Jianjun | 90' | China | -

  Imposing début in which young man fantasises a psychiatric institution. Between nightmare and black comedy.

• Self portrait

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  He Jianjun | 20' | China | European premiere

  Photos and voices tell of changes in family and society. By the maker of RED BEADS.

• Stand up, don’t grovel!

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Huang Jian-xin | 115' | China | -

  Social satire plays with today’s themes: nouveau riche, the declining power of the Party and a flabby intellectual class.

• The story of Xinghua

  • Films from China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

  Yin Li | 90' | China | International premiere

  The male obsession with money and daughters leads to destruction. Colourful drama sides with Chinese women.