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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Portland Street Blues

    Mainstream genre film about Triad gang wars in Hong Kong excels in acting and well-written roles for the film characters (with e.g. the phenomenal San
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  • Windhorse

    Documentary-like feature shot clandestinely in Tibet. The singer Dolkan works for the Chinese, but she has a crisis of conscience when her cousin, a B
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  • Hold You Tight

    Kwan’s most liberated and open-hearted film so far is about people who swing between fidelity and infidelity, marriage and divorce, motherhood and chi
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  • Zhongguo zuihou yi ge taijian

    Funny, moving film is a fascinating snapshot from the history of the Chinese imperial court.
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  • Ruan lingyu

    Collage of historically factual material, dramatised reconstruction and fiction about the life of Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935) played stu
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  • Ren xia ren

    Strange story that moves between farce and profundity about someone who stages his own death to acquire an inheritance.
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  • Yingchunke Zhi Fengbo

    Brilliant ‘chamber’ play with epic dimensions and super cast at the time of the Yuan dynasty.
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  • Summer Snow

    Beautiful role by Josephine Siao in family comedy about a working woman whose working father-in-law goes senile.
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  • Yanzhi kou

    Timeless, passionate love in the decadent, Western Hong Kong of the thirties and the present day is a moving and original ghost story. With Leslie…
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  • Yang + Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    In-depth and slightly psychological reflection on the roel of sex in the film history of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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