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Hanger
Tiger-nominated director of My Daughter returns with a gem. The daughter seems to live alone now and keeps dreaming, but what is that boy doing…Published on: -
Alone
Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty…Published on: -
Poor Folk
A gangster film that doesn’t look or feel like one, but like life itself. At least, life in the lawless border area between Myanmar (Burma)…Published on: -
Memories Look at Me
A film in which the characters are all themselves and we look on in silence: a daughter with a life of her own in Beijing…Published on: -
A Fallible Girl
Young Chinese woman has started a mushroom farm in the desert of the Gulf states. Ambition, love, identity, uprooting and a clash of cultures in…Published on: -
The Love Songs of Tiedan
Lively, romantic comedy in the Chinese countryside in the 1960s and 70s, before and after the Cultural Revolution, which banned local music traditionsPublished on: -
Touch
A man, a place, a form, an essay, maybe a story. Observation agrees to an arrangement with light, image, something. A return to Chinatown NYC,…Published on: -
Emperor Visits the Hell
Satire with a straight face. Free adaptation of chapters from Journey to the West, a novel from the Ming Dynasty moved to contemporary China with…Published on: -
Disappearing Landscape
Three modern stories about migration. Not the easiest film of the festival, but the cleverest. The filmmaker, a Serbian artist who teaches in SingaporPublished on: -
Ping’an Yueqing
Investigation into the suspicious death of a campaigner who disappeared under the monstrous wheels of a mine truck. Artist and social activist Ai WeiwPublished on: