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Department Six constable Mei Shengxue was ordered to investigate the case of Weiyuan dart board

On a piece of wasteland in midsummer in southern China, teenager Amao is on all fours being trained like a dog by a man. They part, and full of shame and fury, Amao finds he is surprisingly enthralled with the man’s state of superiority. He imitates the way the man carries himself and fantasizes about becoming that way. When he happens upon a white puppy one day, he gets a taste of that power, and a wild idea gradually surfaces in his mind, bringing a red hue to the night.

Tang Zheng, a skilled martial artist, discovers his gym owner’s involvement in smuggling relics. Facing challenges in a high-stakes match and a tense confrontation, Tang fights to uphold justice while preserving his martial arts legacy.

The film "Safe and Sound" starts with a weekly piano class at the ward school, telling the story of several little assistant teachers with different personalities and their families' different life experiences and changes in fate. After a few years of bone marrow transplantation, the protagonists Haoxin and Qinxin choose to leave Yanjiao, where they have lived for many years, return to their unfamiliar hometown to start a new life, and return to campus.The film focuses on the daily life of themselves and their fellow leukemia patients before they left Yanjiao."Returning to Hometown for School" often means "Pressure" and "Confusion" for them. After experiencing multiple "Separations", the"Future"seemed so uncertain to them.

Shot in Cambodia and borrowing a title and a punk sensibility from Qiu Miaojin’s classic queer novel, Daphne Xu’s Notes of a Crocodile follows an unnamed woman who roams the streets of a Phnom Penh in flux, encountering humans and animals in her search for a lost friend.

The film centres on a taxi driver who picks up a taciturn young girl with unsettling behaviour. What begins as a chance ride soon draws the driver and the mysterious stranger into a chain of events shrouded in doubt and suspicion, prompting audiences to reflect deeply on human nature, trust, and looming danger. Departing from conventional sentimental storytelling, the film adopts a suspense-driven narrative filled with twists. When the “suspect” gripping the steering wheel encounters a silent “enigma”, an accidental encounter becomes the light that pierces the darkest moments of their lives.

Marking the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton leads a poetic tribute to the late artist and filmmaker with a slow, meditative journey into Jarman’s poem "Chroma" during a visit to Beijing.

“Free Man” tells the story of the international rescue and search and rescue team ‘Free Men’, which consists of Chinese people, who are involved in rescue. After a mission, the team receives a new commission. Through investigation, Hua Zi, a member of the team, realizes that the mission may be dangerous and disagrees with it, but Luo Fengfeng, the captain of the team, believes that rescuing in the limit, creating possibilities in the impossibility, and doing one's best to save each and every life is the original purpose of the team's establishment. With this belief, a few people embarked on a life-fighting rescue. In this rescue, everyone is striving for life, not giving up on themselves and anyone who needs them. The search and rescue team enters the base underneath and encounters many attacks by mutated monsters.

A "Chinese" father reflects on the changing relationship of China and US during his trip to Beijing to retrieve his 3-year-old "American" daughter who has been stranded because of the recent "decoupling" of the two countries. Born in China and living in the American Midwest, filmmaker Yinan Wang attempts to unpack his own experience of how a transnational migrant family deals with the distress caused by identity, nationalism, and geopolitics.

In southwest China, the ancient legend of the Poison Cat circulates. Hunter Tai has been feeling increasingly uneasy lately as he inexplicably connects the eerie cries in the forest and the strange occurrences in the village with his wife’s unusual behaviour. The age-old way of life he knows seems to be crumbling, echoing the prophecy in the legend.

Several cases of missing young girls have attracted widespread attention in Country W. In order to find his missing daughter Luo Tong as soon as possible, the chairman of Qianluo Group held a cocktail party and invited detectives from all over the country to attend.

Meng Qin's daily life revolves around taking care of her 11-year-old son who has a rare genetic disease. Already four months pregnant, Meng Qin is both hesitant to tell her son about the pregnancy and fears for the health of the second child.

Sadie, a translator who struggles to find the most accurate translation of words, tries to clarify her own emotions and visions as she helps Parker, an indie videographer, to translate her documentary.

At an unknown time, people who had never been masked, met in the town of Qinghongli. The boy from the city, looking for something lost, accidentally meets a mysterious girl holding a camera and falls into a short and drowsy dream. The young people in the town have illusions and impulses about love, and wantonly respond to life; the hotel owner occasionally immerses himself in his neon world and is not disturbed; the dumb drunken man has an insight into this field, as if he has a connection with the heaven .The old lady is still sitting on the bench, the old train shuttles through the valley jungle, and the whistle sounds every morning and night, entering the dreams of countless people.

On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful Kunming Lake Tilda Swinton and I were on a boat talking about Jarman’s garden, his last film Blue, and the poem Chroma, which he wrote around the same time.

The movie "Youth Like Song" started filming in Lishui, Zhejiang Province. Directed by the young director Shi Bingquan, starring actors Juánzi, and Tang Yan, the film mainly tells the story of several junior high school students in the new era, focusing on their youth, aspirations, and pursuit of dreams.

Anti-narcotics officer Yi Yongzheng is sent back to his hometown to investigate a new drug case, only to discover that the drug cartel is closely tied to his old friend, Ding Zhitong, stirring up memories he thought he'd buried. Years ago, Ding had joined the cartel, led by "Third Master," in a desperate bid to earn money for her son's medical treatment. She soon became a key player, bringing in foreign drugs and thriving in the underground world. But in this ruthless, profit-driven business, loyalty runs thin, and betrayal is always close. Ding finds herself isolated and betrayed, even losing her husband in the process. In a moment of reckoning, she decides to turn over evidence of the cartel to Yi. However, her plan is uncovered by Third Master, sparking a deadly clash. Teaming up with Yi, Ding helps bring down the cartel, but must face the law herself.

One year after Shanghai's lockdown lifts, Zhang Zhilü returns to his rural hometown of Quejiao Town to work as a driver. What begins as a quiet town reunion with old friends and new acquaintances slowly reveals something more unsettling: a town haunted by silence, where every resident - Zhilü included - seems to be concealing a shared, unspoken unease.

Yu Manman, once a proud dancer, is forced to leave the stage she loves and unexpectedly becomes a children's dance teacher. As she bonds with Gu Xian, a cheerful social worker from Macau, and the playful children, her heart begins to heal. However, facing another opportunity to return to the stage, she must confront her past and rediscover her true self.

Igami would have wanted to be a manga artist, but he become an exorcist. And in this, he excels. When a yakuza boss asks for his help in dealing with a grave curse, he realizes that a supernatural insect master is active behind the scenes. Furthermore, a great master of the supernatural is putting Tokyo in danger. Igami decides to delve into his arsenal of tricks and spells to thwart these plans.

Based on the chapter of Fire Cloud Cave, the movie tells the story of Red Child, who is naughty by nature and innocent at heart, being compelled by the Black Cloud Immortal to capture the Longevity Monk to make a reunion dinner for his parents. During the fight between Wukong and Red Child, Black Cloud Immortal takes the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and awakens the ancient demonic beast Taotie. Black Cloud Immortal manipulates Taotie to attack the Heavenly Court and the Spirit Mountain, stirring up the three worlds, and eventually, Wukong uses self-sacrifice to resolve the disaster, and at the same time, awakens the goodness in Red Child's heart.

"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the aftermath of the pandemic. Filmed in Wuhan, the film follows the everyday lives of three middle-class households. It postulates the existence of a mass dreaming phenomenon that facilitated fatigued Chinese inhabitants to rejuvenate themselves following the secluded episode of lived experience and to coexist with the enduring imprints of "the event" on their social lives.

A woman comes back home after studying abroad.

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.

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.

Zhang He and Ling Fei, a once-happy couple, face challenges after the Charming Angel Competition. Ling Fei catches the eye of her boss, Li Kai, while Zhang He falls into financial ruin, owing a large debt. When he disappears to escape the loan sharks, Ling Fei is left with no choice but to be with Li Kai to repay the debt. Years later, Zhang He returns, but he soon realizes that love, once lost, cannot be regained.

The seaside girl, Coconut Sister, who was obsessed with dance, married early because she had not yet overcome poverty. Unexpectedly, her husband passed away, and she endured hardships to raise her naturally mentally retarded eldest daughter and adopted daughter Xiaofeng. After passing the college entrance examination, Xiao Feng became confused in love. After painful reflection, she became a female entrepreneur and eventually trained the third generation to become ballet dancers with her mother.

The film records the inspiring story of a Chinese boy who was inspired to pursue his racing dream after watching the first F1 race in his hometown of Shanghai, and eventually became China's first and so far only F1 racing driver.

Sanming and his wife You Hua in a village to raise sheep for a living, You Hua and health is not good, Sanming has always wanted to apply for subsidies with the village, a phone call, the daughter He Ye informed Sanming to get his son-in-law Xiao Wang home, the story from Sanming to buy a suit...

A group of young Tibetan boys seek retribution against a donkey that harmed one of their own, only to encounter escalating complications.

A modern musical between Tess, a mother, and her daughter Justine. After suffering a fall, the doctor expresses to Tess, from the CT scan, a potential presence of a lump in her breast and recommends a mammogram. Justine accompanies her and ultimately uncovering the real reason for the fall.

This Documentary offers a poetic portrait of the film-maker’s grandmother, Shou Ai Xia, who suffers from dementia. It explores the fading memories of her ordinary life and the vivid hallucinations reflecting her decades of commitment to the Chinese Communist Party, providing a pathway beyond the traditional views of dementia.