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The mental instability affecting a woman, following a dementia diagnose, drag her and her husband between dream and reality. Across memories and oblivion, the interaction between care giver and receiver brings back moments of affection and emotional release.
A teenager tries to make up for the mistakes he has made and restarts his life. But the people around him didn't believe that he had reformed, only a little girl was willing to be his friend.
‘Where have all the parents gone?’ This haunting film from southern China seems to paraphrase Pete Seeger's famous anti-war song about missing flowers. Three young teenage girls − and one silent little sister who faithfully tags along − are in a small mountain village that would be considered a paradise if it wasn’t so poor, backward and unsafe. Most parents are far away in Shenzhen, or some other industrious metropolis. Left to their own devices, to the care of some unfit teacher or ageing grandparent, they are fighting off bullying classmates, sticking together where possible. The girls have to navigate unknown dangers when they decide to borrow money to pay for the long voyage to the city.
Deceitfully playing with stereotypes, Mantis questions whether identity is something imposed on us or something to be uncovered. The short film follows a young woman of Asian descent fulfilling the expectation of Western society. Slowly, she begins to question whether her actions are simply the result of how she has been conditioned to think and whether ultimately after so many years this has effectively become her identity. Challenging how truly comfortable we feel in our skin, Mantis cleverly poses the question of who's in charge of (de)constructing our identity.
A wig shop next to the cancer hospital. Most of the customers here are cancer patients. Yang Shuai, a young barber with a negative attitude towards life, meets Gao Xue, a nurse who is suffering from pancreatic cancer. The two fall in love. In the last moments of Yang Shuai's life with Gao Xue, they find the meaning of survival and the truth, goodness and beauty of life.
20.000 Buddhist nuns live in a monastery on a snowy plateau in Tibet, China. Surrounded by harsh nature and secluded from the outside world, these women offer us a glimpse into their religious exploration of life’s biggest questions.
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Sima Han is the one who overpowers the others to take the sword manual and destroy it according to his master's orders. Twenty years later, various heroes come to Qixia Town to seek the real sword manual, and Sima Han's late wife's father and brother also come here to seek revenge.
A little fish was looking for food freely, but inadvertently witnessed cruel hunting of other marine creatures by a capture fisherman. And at the moment when the capture fisherman and this little fish face each other, a crazy hunt begins… Underwater monster is the common name for capture fisherman. Of course, they are humans, but to marine creatures hiding in rocks and water plants, they can be described as real monsters.
Unreleased Hu Jie film.
Group of professional treasure hunters goes to the jungle in search of the “dragon veins” of Kunlun Ruins. Every step they take is dangerous. The mysterious and primitive clan that kills people, the stone beast mountain forest that is haunted by ghosts, the phantom butterfly that eats human flesh and blood, and the thousand-year-old dragon that suddenly comes back to life.
In order to reduce costs, a greedy factory owner is secretly dumping toxic waste in the mountains. However, the resulting pollution leakage causes the spiders in the area to mutate. Meanwhile, spider obsessed college student Qiumu (Zheng Zefei) and Songlin (Zhangzhen), his new female acquaintance, investigate reports of a massive arachnid in the forest nearby…
In a mysterious clinic, a young man is prescribed an eye treatment after failing a sight test. As he begins to question the whole situation, the protagonist is forced to undergo a sequence of unimaginable therapeutic procedures.
Ways of Seeing is a film about the transformative, healing power of both nature and female wisdom as expressed through movement. The film focuses on the ways our inner world is expressed in how we move — particularly subconscious movement. And, based on this, investigates the healing effects of liberated movement. “I wanted to bring attention to the courage it takes to sit with the inevitable pain we experience as we seek to grow,” Furth shares. With this approach, the film further draws on a fascination with nature’s capacity to humble and inspire us, as well as the ways through which we can become more aware of, and receptive to, that innate strength.
In the pursuit of her dream, Protagonist Lin worked alone at an animation company in a big modern city, which was too busy to answer her father's message. She was given an important role in a new project. However, her inspiration dried up under the pressure of the schedule. she fell into a low point where she could not hold a pencil again...Losing confidence, Lin go back to her hometown. She found out a sketchbook when drawn with her father in childhood. Encouraged by the memory, she rediscovered her first love to painting and devoted herself to creating and embracing her dreams.
Xiaomei, a factory girl played by Xiao Wen Ju, spent a long night looking for her lover but he never shows up.
Tantan Mao and his friends rescued the mermaid princess, but soon the evil deep-sea tribe rushed to her. The princess hides important clues and is the key to finding a powerful magic stone.
Through the process of mutual recognition and domestication of two generations of swordsmen and a knife, it tells the story of the protagonist Agou in the troubled times. After experiencing some fights and disputes in the rivers and lakes, he discovered and had the courage to change himself. This is an inspirational story of an unknown little beggar with low self-esteem who grows up to be a hero who cares about the world and saves the world for the people.
The film, which revolves around the Hmong Lusheng, is an ethnic minority style film that combines comedy, inspiration and musical elements. In the film, Tao Tianyi, the only son of a Miao "Golden Lusheng" family, is expected by his father to carry on the honour of the "Golden Lusheng". But Tian Yi has his own musical aspirations, and after a failed talent show, he coincidentally becomes an "internet sensation".
There was a puppet in the telephone booth on the street, like a tree hole that received the stories people poured out without a word. In the morning, a little girl visited the puppet unexpectedly.
Lim took Huang touring around the downtown streets and rural trails, tracing the path of HUNG TUNG, Lim's favorite artist.
A story which focuses on a woman who is born poor and suffers immensely for her family. As a wife, she supports the whole family and takes good care of her paralysed husband. As a mother, she is misunderstood by her adolescent son. As herself, she has a strong desire for the beautiful things in life which cannot be fulfilled. All of these involve money. So the woman comes up with a “brilliant” idea…
Dance teacher Lin Maomao suffered from schizophrenia because her husband Wu Hao left him. He went to the station every day to wait for her husband to return. Former boyfriend Chen Guang accompanies Lin Maomao every day regardless of return. Wu Hao finally came back and reunited with Lin Maomao. Chen Guang also gained a new love.
Every gay person goes through a process of discovering their own identity. Caught between their truest self and the family and societal pressure around them, which should a college student still in the middle of this process choose? Details
In the city of GenHe, the coldest part of China, a team of teenagers from underprivileged backgrounds run every day under extremely harsh circumstances. The sports school has provided them with something they couldn’t get from their families: joy and hope for a better life. A heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.
A 14-year-old boy has to clear out the motel all by himself during a pandemic lockdown, but it seems an unexpected guest is staying behind.
A tale of vanished years, love lost, and regret.
Xiaoxiang, a 55-year-old woman who lives with her idling bachelor son, meets a man who makes a living by arranging local death ceremonies. Their hearts inch closer toward each other, but nothing can change her caged life.
What is real and what isn’t in a replicated city? Ella Raidel made this penetrating ghost-town film in contemporary China, interweaving actors and ordinary people, sets and footage of the city. Aren’t the real estate agents, construction workers and investors simply playing a game? What remains of reality in a world dominated by the vagaries of capitalism? A Pile of Ghosts is a mysterious puzzle where the dividing line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. In this strange world, subjected to speculation, it actually doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
After missing the meeting with his friends, Qasem, an insomniac old Afghan man, roamed the city night, trying to find the stone he had seen with his friends on the mountain.
The story takes place between a young couple who is about to get married. The woman misread the size and ordered a huge wedding photo frame, which led to an interesting dispute between the two on the way to move the frame home.
A woman in mental distress comes to the beach, has a dream, and then departs.
