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《Love Is Not a Sin》is a genuine Macanese film made by a local director Chan Kin Tak. The film is an exuberantly bizarre tale about two teenage girls who have so such affections to each other. However, a hidden camera finally destroys their fancy as the recorded contents unveil a possible truth that one of them is probably a male. The director has skillfully shown a dramatic shift of mood through the use of his cameras, from an atmosphere of exuberant teenage joy to a lost in one’s own sentiments. He has also blended several elements into his plot, such as the innocence of youth, some soap materials and a sense of horror. This definitely wakes up the sensations of its audience. And a mysterious male voice narration throughout the film always keeps people puzzled about the truth.

The story is a gathering of casual events which happened to a younglady, who has a study abroad background and just returned to her parents after years. These causal events consist of some pieces of her daily life encountering different people and handling her relations...

Liu Xiaoyang, passionate about music, is tutored by Feng Gang, and they develop feelings for each other. After graduation, Xiaoyang returns home, where her parents want her to be with childhood friend Zhang Xuefeng, but she rejects their wishes, caught between her past and present.

On the eve of the year 2000, two stories centered around money unfold in Beijing. One is the story of a merchant who was poisoned for money -- 1000 years ago. Trapped in a black bowl, the merchant's ghost encounters an old beggar, and regales him with the story of how he came to be inside a bowl. The other story begins in modern times: A debt collector handcuffs an old friend, a poet, who cannot pay back his debt. The poet, who cannot be free of his handcuffs until he returns the money to the debt collector, goes to pick up his lover, while still handcuffed to the debt collector — but the poet's lover too was a prisoner of the debt collector, who escaped, and so all three are become handcuffed together. "Flying Flying" participated in the Youth Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001, as a 'film banned after 1990.'

Liu Huanrong works in Changqing oil fields, China's second-largest onshore oil and gas field located in Inner Mongolia. A devoted employee for over thirty years, he spends his free time building a swing and running after his young female coworker, who recently arrived and has only one thing in mind: fleeing the isolated place to return working in the big city. An unexpected mishap brings Liu back to his family in Xi’An, the 8 million inhabitants capital of Shaanxi Province. He will have a tough time reconnecting with his estranged spouse and adult daughter, but also with a very different capitalist society compared to thirty years earlier.

Documentary about four Chinese lesbian women who seek contract marriages with gay men, and form of their lesbian and gay community and fulfill their desires.

The story takes place between a young couple who is about to get married. The woman misread the size and ordered a huge wedding photo frame, which led to an interesting dispute between the two on the way to move the frame home.

After realizing he will soon not be able to take care of his intellectually disabled son, Li Da, a middle-aged man embarks on a journey to his estranged brother’s home.

Fang Dong (Yang Run Kun) has everything going for him. He is happily engaged to Yu Ting (Yao Yuan), and his life is going well. But one day, he gets a prank call from Xia Xiao Duo (Zhang Hong Lei), and it unexpectedly changes everything. He drastically changes his views on life and love at the expense of his fiancée.

Shi Yan, an optimistic and cheerful young woman who loves traditional Chinese martial arts, trains under coach Wang Mingyang and dreams of opening her own martial arts school. As they practice together, their mutual admiration blossoms into love, and they share a blissful romance. However, Wang Mingyang aspires for more than just being a martial arts instructor. He seeks fame by attempting to summit Kawagarbo - the unconquered highest peak of Meili Snow Mountain - planning to gain internet fame through a live broadcast. Unbeknownst to him, Shi Yan suffers from uterine fibroids and breast fibroadenomas, though she never finds the courage to tell him. Instead, she tries to dissuade him by citing the mountain's dangers.

Four young people, one city. For love or ideal, with funny and faint bewilderment. An original improvisation in Chinese Cinema, a brand new rendering of city life.

Junjun, a 50-year-old cab driver who had devoted his life to the job, found himself forgotten by society. Struggling to make ends meet and care for his half-paralyzed father, Junjun became an illegal driver. After the governmental transportation department issued warnings and fines, Junjun scrambled to become a certified online ride-hailing driver, but his car’s poor condition disqualified him. Desperate to purchase a new car, Junjun sought out his old friend and boss, Hou San, to collect the wages owed to him. Yet, as he ventured to reclaim what was owed, Junjun encountered a new set of complications.

The light freezes the memory period... With the yellowed photos, we are at both ends of the light, farther and farther away..." Ni'er sang the "Gate of Light" left by Mu Ming, memory Flashback... In the first summer, Nier met Mu Ming, one who sells pancakes on the street and the other as a singer. That summer, Mu Ming sang to her "Skylark": At that time I was bending over and cutting the wheat, and the fields were golden , Skylark flew in the blue sky.

A heartwarming short film by butterworks.

In the summer of 1939, during the Japanese army's sweep through the Lüliang Resistance Base, a recently married young woman named Zhou Junxia witnesses the brutality of the Japanese invaders at her own wedding.

Martin travels to China to compete in a martial arts competition and to find the story about his parents but he unexpectedly finds love in a special place.

A group of people are cleaning a spotless unknown space. The emergency message about the coming attack of aliens is repeated on the broadcast. a sandstorm soon invades the space as the foreshadow of the arrival of aliens. it drives the people into a shelter. instead of being frightened, the people enjoy the moment, wearing vr goggles and fall into the virtual world. however, one person accidentally discovers a “system vulnerability” on the cctv monitor. she leaves the shelter. the world has become a ruins. she sees a strange bright light from the windows and moves towards it in the heavy smog… do the alien attackers really exist?

A story which focuses on a woman who is born poor and suffers immensely for her family. As a wife, she supports the whole family and takes good care of her paralysed husband. As a mother, she is misunderstood by her adolescent son. As herself, she has a strong desire for the beautiful things in life which cannot be fulfilled. All of these involve money. So the woman comes up with a “brilliant” idea…

A man who was hiding for 7 years to avoid creditors has embarked on his journey home because of the death of his mother. On the way back home, the childhood memories stroke him constantly just like dreams. In search of a notebook full of poems written for his ex-wife, he went to the former factory to find an old friend. Elsewhere in the city, three senior students are talking about their future plans. All the wandering man under the bridge, the little boy in his childhood and the young senior students, imperceptibly but inexorably are linked together by the river, and the memory has been revived.....

Xiaoxiang, a 55-year-old woman who lives with her idling bachelor son, meets a man who makes a living by arranging local death ceremonies. Their hearts inch closer toward each other, but nothing can change her caged life.

Xiao An and Mao Cai live in the same dormitory and meet one another because of their accidentally swapped bedsheets. They grow closer by meeting frequently, to the point that Mao Cai asks Xiao An to be his little brother. Although what Xiao An feels is way more than brotherly love, he accepts Mao Cai's request. While both of them are trying to figure out their feelings, Lao Si (Xiao An's rommate) is getting into the picture too, making everything even more complicated.

Chinese funerals require much preparation: a three-day wake and various rituals precede the cremation. In the opening shots of this magical realist film, the widow returns home drained and starts tidying up the house, only to encounter her deceased husband casually sauntering down the stairs. She soon readopts a familiar routine: dressing him warmly, measuring his blood pressure and bickering with him. This absurd premise soon develops when visitors from the afterlife are expected and the daughter starts getting involved. As she seeks to solve the impossible situation, grandson Jiajia seems to be the only one unquestioningly embracing grandad's return. All shot in long, composed takes, replete with understated humour and tender reflections on family, loneliness, memory and the passing of time. (c) IFFR

While paying respects to her late father, Zian discovers a photograph of him with a young boy named Zitong, whom she doesn't recall. Intrigued, she delves into uncovering Zitong's identity, questions surrounding her father's death, and the mysterious figure shadowing her.

Nick, as a Chinese director, sinks in the sadness of his break-up with Mandy, a Chinese designer, at his birthday night. He watches Mandy's favorite film and keeps drinking, until next day, they encounter each other outside a theatre which feels like a wish.

Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula.

“Golden Lotus” is a masterpiece of Guangdong Han Opera. This film deeply explores the essence of the classical literary masterpiece of the same name. It not only brings a fresh exploration to traditional Han Opera in terms of form, but also demonstrates a high level of innovation and transformation in content. Film tells the story of Jin Lian, who has loved gold and jewels since childhood. She saves broken jewelry and gold pieces to secretly craft a pair of golden lotus shoes. She originally intended to use them to marry a good husband with dignity and honor.

After being released from prison, Wei Dong, whose life was shattered by a drug lord’s actions, sets out to capture drug dealers and earn enough reward money to win back his family. Meanwhile, gambler Huo Sheng kills a drug mule to steal money and drugs from a crash site. Wei Dong and Huo Sheng unexpectedly become colleagues, driving trash trucks. As they unknowingly become entangled with the drug lord, a darkly comedic clash unfolds between them, with each pursuing their own agenda.

With the background of a large number of Guangdong factories' relocation abroad. The story focuses on several young workers, who try to rid anxiety through love, but slowly drowning in lovestruggles.

Born and raised in an industrial city, Taihang is surpressed by the sense of isolation and depression of this environment. The bizarre fate transforms this rebellious teenager into a compromising man, which is the shared nightmare that many people fail to escape.

This is a story built around a barber shop, two relationships, and three closely-related individuals; it is all about “moving on and getting over”.

The soon-to-graduate son is busy on preparing his graduation play. The mother memorizes the staging old days. The son's gay orientation becomes the mother's concern. Reality and fiction inside and outside the play reflect the emotions that every family faces.

Oro doesn't trust anything, but she meets a strange young man at a Chinese cram school and falls in love. However, when she trusts him, things take a different turn.

After witnessing the sudden death of a student in a classroom, a cowardly young teacher will face a whole classroom of students who have not yet died suddenly, as well as his own indistinguishable past, in which he exhibits his "name view" in preaching and self-doubt, and a class will pass.

A Muslim girl living in central China begins to question the religious and familial restrictions that shape her life. In an attempt to challenge the taboo of altering the body, she decides to get a tattoo — but her rebellion against the idea of “sin” unexpectedly gives rise to another kind of “sin” that visits her in return.

The peace of summer life in a village in south-western China is disrupted by the arrival of a film crew which is seeking someone to play the lead in their film. Twelve-year-old Shouxian is excited by the goings-on and constantly hangs around the filmmakers. When he finds out that they're looking for a boy just his age to play the lead, he willingly does all he can to get the part.

Actress Luo Qi acts Jiang Hongyu, a gifted and gorgeous movie star in the Republic of China

Every gay person goes through a process of discovering their own identity. Caught between their truest self and the family and societal pressure around them, which should a college student still in the middle of this process choose? Details

Experimental short film by Yu Xiaoyang.

A pair of dragonfly wings grows out from the back of the first biological kid from two men. One of the fathers, the scientist who created the kid, wants to hide the fact from the public, while the kid wants to expose the wings to force his fathers to accept him.

Betrayed by her adoptive father, a girl dismantles the conspiracy behind her father's murder. One death at a time.

In the shadow of China’s growing erasure of marginalized lives and the tightening state surveillance, a sudden disappearance of an elderly woman in the frigid winter propels her caregiver, Lin, on a relentless search. As Lin’s quest deepens, the boundaries between her and the mystery blur, entwining her fate with the vanishing she seeks to resolve.

Zhang Zhen was imprisoned for impulsively hurting someone during a competition. After his release, he decided to turn over a new leaf, run a business with his girlfriend, and quit boxing. Wang Xuewen, the elder brother of Wang Xuewu whom Zhang Zhen had injured, learned of Zhang Zhen's release and decided to avenge his brother. He repeatedly provoked Zhang Zhen, who endured it again and again, hoping for a peaceful life. However, when his girlfriend was kidnapped by Wang Xuewen, Zhang Zhen finally snapped and fought back.