Discoveries from China World Cinema

Diao Yi'nan's latest neo-noir starring Jackson Yee. A surprising thriller set against the snow-covered landscapes of industrial China.

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West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the cage-like tenements reflect the many forms of social injustice as well as Hongkongers’ widespread sense of rootlessness. Connecting three stories from different households like puzzle pieces, the film depicts people’s despair over issues of family, sexuality, love, and freedom.

In a small town in China, young Yijie sells fruit around the city in a modest food bike. Stationed on a street, he witnesses how Yong, a boy his age, steals the purse of one of his customers. Both meet streets ahead. Despite not knowing each other, they decide to spend the afternoon together and share their dreams and intimacies.

Three young female speed skating athletes help and compete with each other, and all get outstanding achievements.

Each vision lasts a light time.

Li Dong Hai is rushed off his feet every day at his job with the Disabled Federation. He helps everyone and never asks for anything in return. His son thinks Li Dong Hai's selflessness is extreme, en example of which arises when Huang Kun, a poor paraplegic, proposes marriage to Wang Jing. The girl's mother objects but Li Dong Hai comes to the rescue with 200,000 renminbi that he had saved for his own son's marriage. His wife complains but, unexpextedly, his son supports his decision. About to welcome the new couple, however, Li Dong Hai gets some bad health news...

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Summer 1951, the Pamir Plateau in Xinjiang. The lives of the border troops and civilians are being threatened by a spy organization.

Way of the Stone

A poor taxi driver offered a chance for a better financial future must weigh up the cost of walking away from what he most values. // In a world first omnibus collaboration between emerging Asian movie powerhouses, China, Korea and Australia, comes the classic adaptation of Loa She’s The Rickshaw Boy. Set in three locations, across three countries each thirty minute chapter tells the story of one man’s struggle for survival amidst the age of disruptive technology and explores the intimate relationship that has come to exist between man and machine and the evolution of that relationship.

Gao Renjie, Mei Xiaoyang and Li Shimin work at the same animal hospital. Through work, they meet Donghua and her two friends, Baibai and Yawen, and romantic sparks and heated affairs soon follow. The problem is of the three, only Li Shimin is single. To help his friends, he comes up with different tactics to deal with the wives.

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

In high school, Lan Feichi and Qi Shu fell in love. Nine years later, the two met again at Qi Shu's wedding. Lan Feichi saw Qi Shu's ordinary desolation and felt guilty. Later, Lan Feichi accidentally entered a magic watch shop that can transport time and space and returned to the high school era with the pocket watch donated by Qi Shu. Lan Feichi, who has returned to the past, has done many ridiculous things to change reality, but each time the ending is much worse than the original. When Lan Feichi returned to the scene of their first encounter, he decided not to meet Qi Shu again.

BeSound took a chance to film one of these factories during our factory inspections and surveys in Dongguan - the so called manufacturing center of China. We met and interviewed a few factory workers there. Most of them are incredibly young, and belong to the so called ‘post-90s generation’ (born later than 1990). This generation, as a result of China’s one child policy, has traditionally been claimed as ‘the little emperors’, spoiled hugely by their parents. But when they come to work and live in the factory, what is there waiting for them? Difficulties, hope, helplessness, or a better future?

August 618 AD. The four prison doors in Chang'an City were opened. As a minister, Li Shimin led his brothers to arrest prisoners on death row overnight. Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and He Ruolan showed up. The two colluded with the Lingnan He family and wanted to get rid of Li Shimin. Li Yufeng showed up to save Li Shimin. All of this is Li Shimin's plan to instigate a mysterious case of divine punishment.

In 1947, the Northeastern People's Liberation Army won a major victory in fierce fighting. In need of work, Molong Wang and his wife Juan Zhang were sent to work in Taohuachuan, a remote and difficult new area. As soon as he arrived in the district, Molong Wang and district official Chenzhong Liang went to the village and saw the fields dry up. The dam needed to be urgently repaired. The daughter of the village kulak Xumei Sun and the Kuomintang agent Jiantou Li conspired to provoke a series of problems to undermine the unity of the two villages in order to crack down on the new head of the district, Molong Wang...

The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.

Lei Hao gave up her career and became a full-time housewife to support her husband for the sake of her family. Looking at herself in the mirror, who was already a yellow faced woman, she felt deeply disappointed. Accidentally, she opened a blind box given by a friend and found a regret pill inside. Her hand was used to restart her love journey with her "ex husband" who was on the brink of marital breakdown, Yang Kami.

During an abortion, 17-year-old Yang gives birth to a live jellyfish in her bathroom.

“Fahsai” a twenty-one-year-old girl who is trying her best to deal her relationship with her mum after her father, who divorced her mum for 10 years, just came back in her life again.

A propaganda documentary to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong.

Shasha, a long-haired heterosexual girl, was accidentally brought into the sensory world between girls by the short-haired girl Yuzi. All of this subverted her previous cognition of herself, and began to doubt herself, followed by a series of unanswerable questions. While the two were speechless, their friend Jiang Hongyu broke the silence by accidentally breaking in. 3 people sat around listening to the sound outside the window at 4 am in winter...

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Wang, a bankrupt farmer joins his cousin, Wu, in Shanghai, but finds that he is poor too. One day, Wu stops a woman - Zhang, a drug runner - from being run down by a car, and is hospitalized. During his recovery, Wu slims down due to the amount of drugs he is prescribed, which inspires him to create and sell a weight loss medicine.

Doctor He Ning received a package of unknown origin, containing an exquisite and mysterious jade Pisces, a series of bizarre incidents of terror followed.

The whole family of the bride Yuan Rui was killed while in the wedding room, but she was saved by a masked man. A year later, Roy learns from information dealer Bao Dating that his father killed a thief in order to save people. With Bao Dateng's help, Rui searched for the enemy's weakness and set foot on the path of revenge.

Respected Hong Kong composer Joseph Koo, the creator of numerous classic Cantonese movie and TV drama theme songs, announced his retirement in 2015 and held the Dr. Koo Glorious Concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on December 8-19. Top singers such as Adam Cheng, Liza Wang, Hins Cheung, Frances Yip, Teresa Cheung, Kay Tse, Johnny Yip, Susanna Kwan and Elisa Chan participated in the concert to pay the highest tribute to the Godfather of Cantopop. Awarded a Gold Bauhinia Star for his considerable efforts in Hong Kong music industry, Joseph Koo presented The Gold Bauhinia Charity Concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on February 26 and 27, 2016, to express his gratitude to fans. Adam Cheng, Liza Wang, Susanna Kwan, Teresa Cheung, Sandra Lang, Teresa Carpio, William So, Lui Fong, Albert Au and C AllStar were invited to perform in the concert, and Michael Hui served as the host.

An independent film director visits his family's home in Taiyuan, where he discusses love, marriage, and family with his mother and shows Pasolini's DECAMERON to his father. He returns to Beijing after the Chinese New Year celebrations and pursues sex and love.

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Two teenagers goes to the countryside to investigate the world of fortune-telling.

Huabian (Jiang Yuchen) is a young woman who moves to Beijing after completing her studies in search of all the excitement of city life. She swaps her disconsolate guitar-carrying hometown boyfriend for the art and culture of the city; only to find that things aren’t so easy there, certainly not what she expected given her education and aspirations.

Teacher Fen Ti returned to the primary school to do research for a thesis and found that a boy named Si Ba Niu Niu and a girl named Mao Ye often played alone. By paying attention to the two children, Teacher Fen Ti gradually discovered the reason and was deeply moved. The two children also regained confidence through the attention they received.

Bai Feilian, an ancient mythical beast, who was forced to steal many young girls to find true love in order to survive a thousand-year catastrophe. A giant demon beast with the body of a deer and a bird snatches the bride on their wedding night, a girl accidentally breaks into the forbidden area of ​​the demon island, and the woman in red who cries every night in the mysterious underground palace is actually the hero's mother.