Overview of articles
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So Close to Paradise
The lives of two childhood friends who have moved to the city to try their luck also get chronically bogged down in their new surroundings.…Published on: -
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Shower
Liu and his mentally handicapped son run a run-down bathhouse in Beijing where old men come to bath, drink tea and gossip. The film is…Published on: -
Eating Air
Notorious truant and motorbike freak falls in love with a dutiful girl who has no less than two holiday jobs. Together they race through the…Published on: -
City Paradise
Dasheng is a window cleaner in the city, where he has substitute parents and a girlfriend. His real parents and his wife still live in…Published on: -
Darkness and Light
Kang-yi helps her blind father in his massage salon. She meets Ah Ping, the son of one of his customers and a member of a…Published on: -
Seventeen Years
During a quarrel, Taolin accidentally kills her stepsister and spends seventeen years in prison. A tragedy about growing up within a divided family anPublished on: -
Jacky
Impressive, sensitive feature début tells a story with few words and beautiful pictures of the 25-year-old Chinese Dutchman Jacky, his mother, and hisPublished on: -
Singapore GaGa
A warm picture of a cold city. A small and playful portrait of an overregulated mini-state that wants to be great in everything. Where music…Published on: -
The Lady Avenger
One of the most typical so-called Taiwan Black Movies (see also the documentary in this programme about a B-film genre that has disappeared) in termsPublished on:
