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The day Xia Tong saw the flower burning, his father found his dream again. His little snore sounded like a baby crying.

When homosexuality was depathologized in China in 2002, it still remained a taboo for the most. Homosexual lovers lived in the shadow of marginalization, defending their silent love against the prying gazes. It is also in this year that Xia Gu and Amber Zheng, two lesbian lovers, choose to adopt the 10-year-old Ellie from the orphanage. Yet facing the strong opposition from her traditional parents, Xia is torn in halves and forced to rethink what a family truly means to her. At the same time, her self-doubt also stirs up insecurities inside Amber and Ellie. When she decides to return to hometown to take care of her suicidal mother, the tension in this newly formed family mounts up once again.

Yike Su failed in the latest National College Entrance Examination. While his mother tried hard to push him back to school for an extra year, his granduncle moved in since he had nowhere to...

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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”.

A teenage girl is ready to experiment, but an older man’s demands burden her sexual awakening with complex realizations about her place in the world.

During the 1939 Battle of Fanchang, Zhu Zhen, a platoon leader of the New Fourth Army, led his unit in escorting journalist Lu Ying, who carried evidence of the Japanese army’s atrocities in Nanjing as well as their operational plans. Pursued and blocked by Japanese forces, the team suffered continuous casualties and endured life-and-death trials, including ambushes on snowy plains and fierce combat in mountain caves. In the end, Zhu Zhen sacrificed his life for the mission, while Lu Ying successfully delivered the evidence, aiding the New Fourth Army in securing victory and exposing the crimes of the Japanese military.

A group of young boys are fascinated by a girl who spends her days looking out the window.

Xiaomei, a factory girl played by Xiao Wen Ju, spent a long night looking for her lover but he never shows up.

In a small town, a young man’s life takes a bizarre twist when he accidentally loses two fingers. The mysterious flashes that accompany the incident plunge him into a realm of absurdity…

A group of young people having a dinner together, during which they shared their personal experiences and played them out through a game.

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

Within moments of silence, tense and uncomfortability, a pair of brothers re-started their long overdue conversation before the younger has to face the diagnostic report of his illness.

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.

Lingering Dream of Homeland (2023) is a feature-length film by writer/director Li Weinian, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, China. Centered on the story of a multi-generational family from Taishan in the 1920s and 1930s, the film explores themes of immigration, family separation and cultural preservation. Highlighting the history of Taishan, Li Weininan brings the beauty of its landscape and traditions to the big screen. In Cantonese, with Chinese and English subtitles, and with locally cast Taishanese actors, Lingering Dream of Homeland is appropriate for viewers of all ages.

During the Song Dynasty, Song Ci came to Changting County to take up a post, and focused on the study of autopsy in order to write the “Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.” One night, a man and a women died at the same time, shaking up the whole county. When Song Ci heard about the case, he intervened the investigation and found that the case was very stage. While he found himself being cornered, Song Ci thought of the woman he hasn’t dared to meet for three years, the Changting County “All-rounded” Dan Qing. So Song Ci went to Dan Qing to enquire about the two recent murder cases, and asked Dan Qing to join the investigation. After a series of analysis, reasoning and visits, the truth is finally revealed.

A mother with a doctorate, a middle-aged unemployed worker, an unqualified wife, a daughter trapped under constant interference. Zhang Xin struggles to juggle these conflicting identities. In the end, she has no choice but to lower her guard and turn to her mother for help—yet an even greater upheaval awaits her in life…

Must desire to be dirty? Do angels have gender differences? Does the angel representing purity have no desire? Can’t David, who represents male power, wear lipstick? Do we have to be the same as others? In 2000, Ye Yongzhi, a junior high school student in Taiwan, suffered from campus bullying for his “sissy” behavior for a long time. His body was finally found in the campus toilet. In Yongzhi’s drawer, there was also a note that read: “Mom, help me.” Do you hear the angel’s cry for help? Dear “Ye Yongzhi”s, how are you now?

Lan Shaoping, the captain of the criminal police, was dismissed for a work error. Lan Shaoping, who was dismissed, found that the champion work of the "Crime Recording Exhibition" showed a premeditated murder, but other criminal police officers disagreed with this statement. Author Jin Youkun said it was her accidental. Breaking through many obstacles, Lan Shaoping's investigation made progress. He found a murder weapon in the Jin family, but it was not until the appearance of Feng Dalco, who secretly fell in love with Jin Youkun, that the truth of the case was revealed...

Dad has his own armed mercenary squad in the Sansuo zone (Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia). He specializes in receiving some jobs to protect employers and rescue hostages. One day Dad received a call from an old friend 'The rich businessman should be the boss' Dad's mercenary squad went to rescue the kidnapped daughter. Dad led the five-member squad and successfully rescued Ying's daughter from the drug dealer 'Kunpa'. When he took over his daughter with Ying's boss, there was a sudden accident. The little wife is the mastermind behind the scenes. The little wife kidnapped Ying Bo and Ying Bo's daughter, and forced Ying Bo to hide all the property. The father's 'Na Zhan' had the same belief as Miss Ying, and was rescued by one person alone. Boss Ying and Miss Ying, did not expect that behind the smooth rescue was another trap set by the little wife.

A woman and a man stroll through a zoo. They chat about God and the world in Serbian. They part, meet again, look at animals and other zoo visitors.

Early 1960s, Xinjiang, construction of a railway. Yin Meng is sent to Xinjiang for party work. Ying Meng has the most painful memories associated with this city—twenty years ago, the Kuomintang shot her husband here, she was imprisoned here, and her son was taken away from her here. The film tells the story of how Xinjiang has changed and how Ying Meng found her son.

In 2013, in a small town in Guanzhong, a ten-year-old girl named Mimi was assigned to be a boy. In order to prove that she was a girl, she fought hard but almost made a big mistake.

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.

A cleaner who worked alone in the underground parking lot every day, faced the heavy rain and leaking rooms, and finally he jumped into the trunk of a zombie car.

A teenager goes to the grocery and get bullied.

Philip, 85, has been living in hope, over the last 30 years, that one day he will be reunited with his wife in afterlife. But his yearning is jeopardised by the dream he had about her—in which he searched for her among the crowd of women in a barren landscape, but he could not recognise her face.

An accidental car accident plunged a discipline inspection cadre into the abyss

Set in a coastal city in China, [Frontier] describes the friendship between two kids - a local Han boy and a Uygur boy, who just moved to this city. Their friendship is greatly influenced by social prejudice and cultural differences.

Contemporary Shanghai, summer. Xia Qing, a boy who has been wearing Cochlear Implants due to hearing impairment, has a deep love for dancing. He gains so much joy just from copying Martha Graham’s hand gestures in a dance magazine. A kid with a precocious nature, he sometimes paints his pinky nail red just for that glimpse of beauty. Yet all these passionate pursuits are misunderstood and questioned by his single, deaf mother. Given the opportunity to audition for his favorite dance company once in a blue moon, he has no choice but to return to his body--He seeks his mother’s approval and longs to overcome this obscure self-identity crisis, through the silent language on his fingertips.

A team of workers is sent to planet Gliese 12b to build a gravitational portal. To conserve energy for survival on the frozen planet, each worker is allowed to speak only 113 words per day.

At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxieties surrounding his mother. Set within the world of the post-'90s generation of Chinese youth, BURROW is a dark coming-of-age story about the paralyzing nature of self-doubt about the primal responses we have to our fear of failure.

Transgender stand-up comedian Lady Lin has been using her identity as the punchline in performances to acquire attention, yet she is discontented with her approach. One day, her estranged older brother shows up, informing her of their mother’s recent death. His appearance brings back the pain she suffered when she was disowned by their parents seven years ago. Her loneliness pierces through her glamorous facade. Touched, she decides to visit her hometown, only to learn the truth - her parents lied to everyone that she had died years ago to conceal her identity.

Live up to the wait, live up to the expectations. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the movie series The Hollower produced by the movie channel will be officially unveiled. In the first Call of Duty, Zhang Qian received a mission and went to the Western Regions. He was captured for nearly ten years but maintained his integrity and finally seized the opportunity to successfully break out.