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Black Snow
Urban alienation and despair mark this dark, politically daring story of an ex-con (the great Chinese actor Jiang Wen) with no home to return to.…Published on: -
Woman Demon Human
A powerfully unorthodox story of an opera actress whose onstage persona is the male underworld god Zhong Kui. Part biopic, part fantasy, part modernisPublished on: -
Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
Intense documentary about the ageing journalist He Fengming who tells the sad but fascinating story of her life. Oral history in its most pure, effectPublished on: -
Lucky 7
It was a favourite game of the Surrealists: the cadavre exquis. You draw or write something on a piece of paper, fold it up and…Published on: -
Only Child, Upward, Downward, Forward, Backward, Rightward and Leftward
Not a film with easy chatter. Modern men tackle the subjects of the great philosophers in conversations. Also of great historic thinkers. But don’t thPublished on: -
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Two girlfriends attempt the impossible. They may not have the right talent, but they still want to be Getai stars; shining in this traditional ChinesePublished on: -
In the Wild Mountains
Two mismatched farming couples experience both sexual and social change in 1980s China. Husband-swapping and entrepreneurial zeal fuse in this superblPublished on: -
Grandma
All pitfalls of sentimentality are avoided in this portrait of a family by grandmother’s deathbed.Published on: -
Shanghai Trance
Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out…Published on: -
Devils on the Doorstep
Tranquil Chinese village is lumbered with two prisoners of war during the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. Award-winning, impressive combination of claPublished on: