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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • My Memories of Old Beijing

    One of the greatest works of Chinese cinema, this lyrical masterpiece recreates 1920s Beijing through the eyes of a preternaturally intelligent young
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  • Evening Rain

    Wu Yigong transmutes political protest into lyric poetry in this tale of the poet Qiushi, who is captured by Cultural Revolution radicals, travelling
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  • Sacrificed Youth

    This lyrical, gently eroticised coming-of-age drama of a young Chinese woman ‘sent down’ to live in an ethnic minority village in remote southwestern
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  • Useless

    Portrait of the unusual Chinese fashion designer Ma Ke, who incorporates the natural process of growth and decay in her clothes. But Jia goes further:
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  • Yeeha formosa

    The artist read an old book full of inventions about his own country Taiwan. He took the inventions seriously and translated them to our time.…
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  • Troubled Laughter

    Absurdist political melodrama with experimental flourishes. A reporter dedicated to truth is lured into a nightmare of political propaganda from which
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  • Blue Roof

    A playful film that does not only play with colour and vertigo, but also with expectations.
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  • Yi yi

    Masterfully composed and wise story about a man whose life goes wrong on all fronts. Problems change in the course of a human life, but…
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  • Crossroads

    A secondary school in a boring provincial town in northern China. Boys and girls. Goodies hard at their studies or crooks busy forming gangs. Loving…
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  • Retrace

    Atmospheric experimental film. Distorted images give an impression of a dream in a dream.
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