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A Fool

With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.

A Fool

7.3 2015
Window to America

A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.

Window to America

NR 1952
Mutant Python

Secluded mountain village in northern Fujian is in a state of panic. On the wedding day of Dong Wenhui and Qian Xiuchen father of the groom was tragically swallowed by a python. When Dong Wenlin threw the snake corpse on the altar, the python king swore to revenge. The story of the movie originated from the primitive snake culture in northern Fujian. According to legend, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestors believed in snakes as the god of ancestors and worshiped them as totems. They do not fight snakes or eat snake meat. . This custom has been preserved to this day, and many ancient myths have also been derived. Among them, the legend of "The Long Snake Immortal Marries His Wife" is the most popular, and "Mutated Python" is based on this adaptation.

Mutant Python

NR 2021
Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest has five parts. The series was finished in 2007 and shown as whole in the Venice Biennale the same year. Yang Fudong uses myths, individual memories and experiences as means to study identity and how it may be formed. In his films the spectator can sense the contradictions in the present and past China. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part 1, was filmed on the Yellow Mountain. The mountain has a significant status in the traditional Chinese painting. The scenery, the not so clear motives of each character in the film combined with the music creates an almost poetic atmosphere.

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

NR 2003
Day Zero

Filmed over a three-year period, the film journeys across the planet seeking those on the frontline fighting to protect the world’s most precious resource from running out. It seeks to awaken and inspire audiences to change how they think about the planet’s most vital resource: water, and act, by revealing the rapidly building water crisis at both a global and human scale. The documentary includes exclusive interviews from some of the world’s top scientists and experts, travelling across continents to explore some of the most shocking and alarming water shortage issues facing our planet today. From the Cape Town water crisis and the violent impact of deforestation in the Amazon to the catastrophic results of intensive farming in the American Mid-West.

Day Zero

8.0 2020
The First President

In 1912, Sun Yat-sen was elected as the interim president of the NNG. Yuan Shikai, who sits in Peiping, designed to force the Qing Dynasty to abdicate, seize the fruits of the revolutionary victory, and was elected as the president. After that, Sun Yat-sen disarmed and returned to the field and went to Dongying. Song Jiaoren was full of ambition, formed a parliament, ran for president, continued to promote the implementation of the republic, and was assassinated by the Yuan party instead. Hearing the bad news, Sun rushed back to the motherland, issued a manifesto against Yuan, and set off a second revolution.   The revolution finally failed. Sun and Huang Xing fled to Japan one after another. Former friends parted ways, and the domestic revolution situation is not optimistic. At this time, Soong Ching Ling appeared in Sun Yat-sen's life. She has witnessed the life of the founding father, who was running back and forth for the future of the motherland... © Douban

The First President

NR 2011
Sad Fairy Tale

Liu Tong (Hu Xia) is a computer programmer in a film and television studio he is a small potato who is quiet, stubborn and solitary. His beautiful colleague Yang Jia (Cecilia Liu) is adored and pampered by all. She has an innocent aura and could almost pass as an princess in a fairytale. Many people in the company are attracted to her, including her covetous boss. But Yang remains stubbornly single. Liu pays close attention to Yang, helping her resolving her harassment problem with courage and wisdom. In order to protect herself from the boss, Yang always pretends to faint at the right moment. During these times, Liu stays by her side. One day he comes up with the groundbreaking idea of making Yang believes that she can leap through time so that she can be a true fairytale princess. Sad Fairy Tale is a story about giving carrying one's destined love in one's heart through joy and tears. It is also a riveting story of youth.

Sad Fairy Tale

NR 2012