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Fairytale
Ai Weiwei is an artist of grand ideas and equally grand projects. You could invite ten people to participate in an international project or a…Published on: -
The High Life
This first fiction film by a prize-winning documentary maker is a very sharp and realistic, but also dreamy and surreal urban portrait from today’s ChPublished on: -
Moamba Chinesa
He missed his flight twice, but still made it to the port of Guangzhou (Canton). Or chocolate city as the Chinese call it, because of…Published on: -
When China Met Africa
As a festival, you have to have a good reason to screen a film that is not a premiere – and has even been shown…Published on: -
Winter Vacation
This hilarious minimalist film from poet/writer/filmmaker Li Hongqi won the Golden Leopard. Deadly dry humour, inimitable dialogues and long, sad silePublished on: -
The Interceptor from My Hometown
One of the filmmaker’s classmates reveals his secret: he ‘intercepts’ people seeking their rights. That’s how the system works. The filmmaker followsPublished on: -
My Father’s House
In China, they call the port of Guangzhou ‘Chocolate City’, because so many Africans come here to trade, live and even set up churches. A…Published on: -
Reframing the Artist
Dialogues from more than 50 different films about artists (Pollock, Surviving Picasso etc.) are reenacted by crafstmen in the Dafen Oil Painting VillaPublished on: -
Reign of Assassins
A return to old-style wuxia as seen revived in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Su’s ambition to create an original masterpiece is clear in the film’sPublished on: -
The Tiger Factory
The maker was too honest in an interview: he made the film really quickly. Too quickly, said the critics. An easy target. But the film…Published on: