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Egg and Stone
Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline aPublished on: -
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Exercise in comedic genre filming. A script writer has erotic fantasies. With a lead role for a rubber ducky.Published on: -
Shattered
Xu Tong continues his enervating, sometimes controversial reporting on the morals of the Chinese underclass. In the lead role, an 80-year-old, retiredPublished on: -
After Dark
The filmmaker’s muse, Hannah Lin, as an almost blind masseuse. Why doesn’t she want to be cured? What is so comforting about the dark?Published on: -
So Sorry
Corrupt builders and officials were to blame for the high number of dead schoolchildren after the Sichuan earthquake. This secret would have been buriPublished on: -
Whose Eyes
Daily life as seen by surveillance cameras. Well actually, as seen by leading experimental filmmaker Tan Tan. Screened before Shattered.Published on: -
Bachelor Mountain
In his third film on life and work in the (once) heavily wooded north of China, Yu Guangyi (Survival Song) follows the lonely San Liangzi…Published on: -
Last Fragments of Winter
A Malaysian film student travels to Japan to study and is amazed by many things. About a girl in the snow, for instance.Published on: -
One Recluse
Ai Weiwei follows the trial against a man suspected of killing six cops. Ai is not interested in whether he did it, but in the…Published on: -
Sentimental Animal
Mysterious, oppressive and occasionally shocking film in stylised black-and-white (shot by a colleague director Zhang Yuedong) about the latter days oPublished on: