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The story tells of the late Party Secretary Yan Shenglian, who, in the context of the new era, deeply implemented rural revitalization and led the villagers on a solid path to rural development.

Demon Sovereign Xuantian made a sound to protect the Demon Realm, and sent the little demon scum who pretended to be alive and dead to volley and ask the bone spirits to come out and help fight the demon door. The Bone Essence lives alone outside the world. According to legend, he is indifferent and bloodthirsty. When he tremblingly pushed open the door of the Skeleton Hall, he found that Mrs. Bones was an old person he had known before—his predecessor, Little Bones. But the Bone Lady had long forgotten who she was, and he handed over Xuantian's autograph letter to invite Bone Spirit to play. The Bone Essence refused to agree, because she couldn't remember the thoughts in her heart. If Zha volleyed to help her find her thoughts, she went out of the mountain. At this point, the sealed predecessor began to unfold like a scroll..

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.

It is the year of 2010, Xue Beijing, a 50-year-old director, is preparing to make a film about his youth and remarkable ages in late 60's.

Class 18, the notorious yakuza class in Wutong Middle School received a letter from their future selves one day. The letter accurately predicted what would happen to class 18 during their high school years, and asked the students to complete three impossible missions to save their sick math teacher. To avoid the misfortunes written in the letter, the bad kids called a truce and gradually developed a heartwarming relationship with the Math teacher on their journey to shift the track of history.

Zhao Dachun is a well-known local "psychic" in the Northeast. In order to popularize fortune telling, he engages in metaphysics on the surface, but privately joins forces with his younger brother Biao to help fortune tellers truly solve practical problems, leading to many amusing situations. Later, he becomes obsessed with money and gets involved in the feudal magic scam. When he comes to his senses, he exposes the criminals’ conspiracy.

An experimental travelogue film that follows K a traveler and his encounter with the girl that he met last year, except, she claims she's not her.

Hu Dengjie travels thousands of miles in search of his daughter's best friend, Ji Hong, to uncover the truth about his daughter's death. Along the way, he becomes caught up in a secret deal at the border.

This partially-extant silent film focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the early twentieth century. Wang Guisheng (played by Wang Yuanlong) is an orphan who grew up at his uncle's, working as a farmhand. Since childhood, he has been close with his female cousin, Li Ah Zhen (played by Li Minghui), and they expect to marry. But when her mother dies of illness and overwork, Ah Zhen's father re-marries, and the evil stepmother connives to marry Ah Zhen off to the stepmother's nephew. Then a government representative comes to the village recruiting peasants to establish a new settlement on the borderlands, she persuades the despondent Guisheng to sign up. Guisheng leaves his love behind, only to find hardship on the frontier. Ah Zhen, who has fallen ill, is set upon by her groom on her wedding night...BUT the next morning his stabbed corpse is found in the bridal chamber and a body in a bridal gown is found down a well. WHAT HAS HAPPENED?!?!?!?!!

When a pandemic breaks out, Li You is given a long vacation while Xiao Xiao is forced to remain in a city that she does not know well. A strange atmosphere hangs over the urban landscape. The two of them wander the streets in search of fun things to do. Meanwhile, their emotions, state of mind, ethical values, and physical instincts gradually become tools of desire. Once they have indulged in their pleasures and their euphoria reaches a climax, what else is left for them to set their hearts on, apart from the marks they have left on the city?

On a quiet day, Abin, a boxer who claims to be a friend of Zhong Lang, called the laboratory of St. John's University and asked Yu Shengnan to tell Zhong Lang that there was an important life-threatening matter to him.

Tulan girls Xilan and Suzi fell in love with a man named Hou Xihui. They both came to Chongqing in order to find him. In this city, Hou Xihui disappeared like a wind. However, the two girls did not want to give up, they decided to stay in the city trying to find the man.

After three-year-old Georgia accidentally gets lost, she encounters a boy deprived of familial warmth due to his parents’ divorce. Her purity, kindness, and love empower him to face reality with courage, while also helping her own family—on the brink of collapse—regain warmth.

It tells the story of Hong Hai Er, who was already adopted by Guanyin Bodhisattva as the Fortune Kid. He followed the mentor’s order to practice at the Test of Fate. Hong Hai Er wanted to become a hero but was excluded by others due to his mixed heritage of immortal and demon. Facing misunderstandings and the imminent catastrophe, Hong Hai Er abandoned stereotypes and aggressiveness resolutely at the critical moment and battled the evil bravely with Ne Zha and Miss Dragon. Eventually, he beat the evil and won the recognition of everyone.

A track driver, a restaurant owner and a coal master intertwine into a doomed way.

Based on the novel of the same name by Shanghai writer Sun Ganlu, which won the 11th Mao Dun Literature Prize

As the Spring Festival nears, 20-year-old Lu Youran finds hidden secrets about her deceased father while selling his car at her mother’s urging.

Eight years ago, Liu Zhenguo was a homeless orphan that Liu Baohong "picked up" from the town's garbage dump and brought home. Liu Baohong registered him and paid for his education. His wife Xie Ronglan was complaining that their already tight family had one more pair of chopsticks. Liu Baohong adopted orphans one after another and built an orphanage in his own home. Xie Ronglan was finally mad and ran away. She went to Beijing and picked up garbage for several years. Whenever she saved up 1,000 yuan, she would send it to that special home. The indelible childhood shadow of young Zhenguo, coupled with his usual wandering life, made him unsociable. His only friend was

Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke into the underworld to rescue his mother. After all the hardships, he finally felt the Buddha's will. Let Mother Luo be reincarnated.

Contemporary Shanghai. Four women are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend who meets her father's expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her. The respected director, winner of multiple awards at major international festivals, returns with an intricately structured story about the search for happiness.

A desperate rescue attempt leads to the continuation of the lives of two young girls. Their families will do everything they can to keep their own daughter alive... Their lives may have just begun but they the god of death seems to have come upon them. Two families meet at this fateful juncture, faced by the cruel reality and the urgency of time that have become heavy shackles binding their desperate parents.

From the music of Filipino composer Teresa Barrozo, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke crafts a story that conveys the architectonics of modernization and its effect on those individuals and communities who are forced to navigate shifting landscapes and social norms and expectations. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

The first film of Wang Yuchen's Shanghai Trilogy.

Legendary story from classical novel Water Margin about Wu Song's Revenge.

A coming-of-age family drama with a timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man awakening to their true selves during the 1998 World Cup.

Chong er and San yuan, who are gangsters, lived in a small city northeast of China. They felt lost and confused about the future. San worked at a factory. He and Chong helped Qi ge, the gang leader, to collect debt. Chong despised his vocation and wanted to become a cross talk actor. Lei fu, an entrepreneur, looked down upon Qi. Qi did nothing considered the scale and influence of Lei's company. Lei's project failed thanks to San. He was furious. The dispute was ended through the mediation of his old friends. San was beaten, and his hatred grew deeper. Chong's life was not as good as expected. The money he saved for learning cross talk was not in use. Qi finally got a chance to defeat Lei. However, there was no real winner in this battle. Lei's company went bankrupt. San kept on living an aimless life, while Chong left the small city and kept on pursuing his cross talk dream.

It is a story of four young individuals of different genders, social classes, and beliefs navigate the challenges of contemporary society and seek self-redemption. After the disenchantment of all things, meaninglessness has become a widespread issue in postmodern society, and an increasing number of young people are suffering from “emptiness syndrome”.

He's spent his life killing for the mob, leaving countless bodies in his wake, but now it's time to make amends as the road to hell draws to a close.

When a shoe tycoon is killed during a robbery, his daughter struggles to revive the family business. However, she faces constant sabotage from competitors and discovers betrayal within her own ranks.

In an abandoned cement yard in the southern suburbs, a group of workers living in a utopian memory plot a “demolition” to make a quick buck. Chen Qing, a young boy among the workers, hopes to use his actions and even sacrifice himself in order to take his uncle away from this place, in order to wake up his young heroic uncle. At night, his relationship with his uncle had become subtly close, rigid, and broken, and his quicksand memory was like this dusty cement factory, eventually buried in dust.

After 40 years of devotion, an elderly couple faces a heartbreaking farewell—he succumbs to a heart attack, while she battles Alzheimer’s, trapped in a cycle of fragmented memories and a desperate search for her family, as love fades into unrecognition.

The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.