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A down-on-his-luck courier learns he has terminal cancer. With only months left, his greatest worry is his young son, so he spends his remaining time trying to secure the boy a loving home.

A candid peek into the culture of male sex workers in Beijing.

Su Jinfeng, a local citizen, contracted a deserted island in the sea from his village. He has been planting coconut trees and picking coconut fruits on the island for several years. On this day, Su Jinfeng suddenly encountered a dinosaur while working in the coconut grove. He was frightened and fled for his life. Afterwards, Su Jinfeng was puzzled and brooding about the encounter with dinosaurs, and immediately informed a media of the information, hoping to attract attention and solve the mystery of dinosaurs. Media editor Lin Peilun was overjoyed when she heard the news. As a media person, she knew that if the situation was true, the prehistoric civilization of dinosaurs would be an unprecedented major discovery for the contemporary age. She may even be the first to report the incident..

Between the city and the countryside and the modern world versus the old, a girl is at her happiest when she is in nature. Her parents are divorced, and in a modern world there is a need for money. This means a trip to the big city on the back of her mother’s scooter. Once in the big smoke, the girl must visit with her father and his new girlfriend in order to pick up the all-important alimony.

Wang Tianxiang, the founder of a well-known children's training organization in the city, decides to give up his business after returning to his hometown and learning about the market. Through his interactions with left-behind children, he is inspired to establish a charitable care center for them, providing many of these children with a second home.

During the civil war, a baby is rescued by the party.

Also goes by the title "我们的从前," and the English translated title "The Way We Were." The film follows the lives of four friend in high school. Qin Wei comes to Beijing with his father to study during his third year in high school; he secretly likes his class leader, Yun Yun, but he dares not express himself too explicitly, and instead spends his days in anticipation and fantasy... The four friends plan a performance at the school's arts festival, and rehearse an absurd comedy version of "Romeo and Juliet." But instead something else happens.

A survivor of the Asian tsunami finds an anchor to her disintegrating new Canadian life when she hits the road with a homeless musician.

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Geologist Li Yun accidentally finds a magic stone in an ancient tomb, which transports him in the ancient times during the battles between humans and monsters

Luna is a story that is set in 1930s Shanghai. The main character, Luna, is a high-end prostitute. When an unexpected guest visits her, she offers to play a dangerous game with him, and their bargaining chip is his pinky finger. As the game goes on, the sexual and political tension develops, which leads to unexpected consequences.

Two Singaporean girls join together to form the Papaya Sisters, a getai group that sings at performances during the seventh lunar month. Big Papaya is estranged from her mother, who disapproves of her performances, whilst Little Papaya is an orphan who suffers from terminal cancer. The two are assisted by Auntie Ling and her son, Guan Yin. The two soon rise to the top of the Singaporean getai scene singing traditional Hokkien songs, but their fame brings along with it the enmity of the Durian Sisters, a rival group of techno-singing Eurasian girls.

A Half Basket of Peanut

Eighteen-year-old girl Li Qi failed the college entrance examinations. She disobeyed her mother, refusing to return to school to be a returning student. The relationship between Li Qi and her mother worsened. At classmate Xiaowei’s birthday party, Li Qi and Xiaowei had a quarrel. Li Qi smashed Xiaowei’s newly-bought iPhone in a rage. Unexpectedly, her originally peaceful summer life was changed after the quarrel. Facing the crisis of claiming compensation by her classmate, Li Qi chose to hide it from her mother, determined to keep it as her secret and solve the problem alone. And this secret was like a fishbone stuck in her throat, gradually becoming an unspeakable discomfort for her. The bitterness and pains of growing-up come one after another. She began to rethink her relationship with her mother, and her relationship with the world.

A police station is in an uproar over a stubborn old man who is desperately trying to get rehired. Despite the lawyer's gentle mediation efforts, the situation spirals out of control.

A wounded soldier of the Northeast Anti-Japanese forces is found and helped by a local girl. They fall in love, but the soldier wants to return to his team.

A folktale of the Zhuang nationality of Guangxi province about the daughter of the King of Feathers wedding night.

What is done in the past cannot be undone. Wounds covered by scars, pain eases, but it is never gone. Both of them carefully patch themselves for a wonderful reunion, but were harshly ripped by the turmoil behind the screens.

This telemovie, with Zoe Tay and Alan Ka-Lun Yu in the leads, is a comedy about two enemies who become lovers after strange twists of events.

In this vulnerable documentary, the filmmaker captures how their family resorts to spiritual interventions in an attempt to rid them of their queer identity. The grandmother believes they must be possessed by a ‘demon girl’ – the unborn girl their mother was forced to abort before she became pregnant with Hao. Undergoing prayers, therapies, treatments and ceremonies, Hao paints a wry portrait of these complex relationships with admirable clarity and compassion.

The first movie adaptation of Jin Yong's novel.

Chui Mui Tan's part in the anthology film Fragment. A sort of sequel to A Tree in Tanjung Malim.

The story takes place on New Year’s Eve, December 31st 2019. This was an extremely bad and weird day for Du Yangyu (Feixiang Sun), a young academically-weak student. With his own personal development and possible redemption in mind, Du Yangyu decided to make a change…

After ten years in prison for assault, Wei Deliang returns to his secluded village to find his father gravely ill. To make ends meet, he joins his father's grim job of retrieving bodies from the Yellow River. As they navigate their harsh reality, both men wrestle with buried secrets that could change everything.

Da Chong, Pang Pang, Xiao Dao, and Fanda, former college roommates, reunite to fulfill their unaccomplished dreams as a tribute to their youth. Their journey rekindles their bond and deepens their appreciation for their friendship and present lives.

Jade Bond is a secret agent for the Kuomintang who uses the codename snow, who is given the task of overseeing an arms deal with the North Korean agents. Soon the communists discover the plot and use their best agents to thwart the plot. A brilliant action film: from the Mainland China studios Jinn Kwang Xi.

Lin Qinnian tries to distance himself from Li Guang as feelings complicate their friendship, but the looming college exam might change their paths forever.

When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.

A married man talks to his married neighbour in a rooftop cafe. Adapted from the Wong Kar-Wai film “In the Mood for Love”.

Mother sent Doer, who was in the fourth grade, to learn the violin, but the teacher made some strange behaviors to her during the learning process, so Doer had a secret that cannot be told.

The Song dynasty stone statues, dating back 800 years, stand in the wheat fields of Maozhuang Village. Eight-year-old Qing lives in this village with her mother, Hongmei, while her father works away from home all year round. On the way to school, she meets a ghost-like white child who has come to find his missing mother. With the child's arrival, Qing starts to sense whispering under the stone statues as her mother's secret past begins to reveal itself.

During a severe storm in Xinjiang, a group of fortune-seekers go searching for the mythical “gold baby”, whereas the law-enforcement officers risk everything to rescue them. Filmed on location in the beautiful plateaus of Xinjiang, Way of the Snowstorm is the most expensive film ever made in the region. Under the severest conditions, the extremes of human nature: self-sacrifice and selfish gains become exposed in this thriller of magnificent scope.

The disastrous Sichuan earthquake is the backdrop to the drama of a little girl who, despite finding herself living with strangers, creates a symbiotic and life-saving bond with her grandmother.

The film concerns the misfortunes of an innocent woman, Ah Ling, who lives with her father in Hangzhou, where they rent a boat transporting passengers across the West Lake. Ah Ling is in love with Tie’er, a factory worker who takes her boat every day. The peaceful life is disrupted by the appearance of a playboy artist from Shanghai.

This film tells the story of two sci-fi short-video creators who enter a haunted house in search of inspiration for ghost stories. While drawing ideas from various horror films, they also end up creating a terrifying monster.

'Leader' is the story of Donnie, who lives on his own in a very remote area by the sea. He creates sculptures from ocean waste until one day the tide changes and he inspires a new normal.

Remnants of Taiping Rebellion plan and carry out an assassination aimed at a traitor.

As with everything in life, the same goes for East Lake, a threatened lake near the expanding mega city of Wuhan. You can get worked up about it and get involved - or you can think, it won’t affect me. Fortunately there’s the intriguing new film by Li Luo, which brings to an end these doubts. East Lake (Dong Hu) is a scenic area in the city of Wuhan, threatened by new amusement parks, high-rises and even an airport. ‘East Lake is getting smaller and smaller, but it's bigger and bigger in my memory,’ wrote a friend to the Canada-based Chinese filmmaker Li Luo as a result of the development. In a lucid way, the film investigates how the lake is linked to the people, leading to reflection on identity and survival in today’s China. The form is varied and free. Li uses documentary as well as fictional style elements, and often an ironic mixture of both. © iffr.com