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- While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
- In Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s, 12-year-old Xiaolei enjoys summer with his father, who works at a film studio, and his education-minded mother. But life is rapidly changing, as stable jobs at state-owned companies disappear. Hohhot-born director Zhang Dalei, who was inspired by "the magic of a daydream" he experienced while visiting his grandmother, has created a portrait of his country's past, in beautiful monochrome. Distancing itself from the nostalgic tone of popular teen dramas, the film presents a boy's detached view of the world. Pema Tseden, of Old Dog and Tharlo, is the executive producer. In a small town in western China in the early 1990s, after finishing primary school, Xiaolei looks forward to his long-awaited summer vacation, free of homework. However, this hot summer is not the usual leisurely summer he imagines, as it coincides with the transformation of state-owned companies and the loss of job security. While Xiaolei and his friends idle away the days, the shock of the reformation of state-owned enterprises sees his parents, seemingly calm in the blazing sunshine, seething wg with inner anxiety. As time passes, Xiaolei has a feeling that a revolution has quietly taken place. His father has to become a migrant worker to make a living, with the mother and son relying on each other. Xiaolei feels that life has changed completely. One night at the beginning of autumn, the epiphyllum in Xiaolei's yard blooms, as if it were an apocalypse.
- ALUS is a nomadic electronic musician who accompanied his mother with Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland and spent the last time with his mother.
- Three women of different generations walk through the streets of Tama New Town, over the course of one day. Each woman is burdened with her own worries and feelings of isolation as they struggle to move forward in their lives.
- Yoon-yeong has been harboring feelings for Song-hyeon, a friend's wife. When he finds out that she is divorced, Yoon-yeong and Song-hyeon take a trip to Gunsan on a whim. They find lodging at an inn where the middle-aged owner lives with his autistic daughter who does not leave her room. The four become star-crossed lovers in the city of Gunsan.
- Tells the story of Sangui, who is cursed to cause everyone he kisses to fall into a deep sleep. Only true love can break the curse. As Sangui searches for a cure, he finds a dreamer yearning to become a princess and a former superstar.
- A film about a middle-aged man's retrospect to his past, two Koreans' trip to Fukuoka, and three people's reconciliation with love.
- This three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders.
- A time-traveling tale of a woman living in the Peninsular Malaysian east coast, who gets entangled with a man in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.
- They do everything together: they read poems, have breakfast, see friends, argue with each other, comfort each other, share their childhood and past memories. With imagination, they introspect in solitude and rest in intimacy.
- A high heel mother shoe survives in an authoritarian world dominated by male shoes and brings up her daughter shoe by disguising herself as a male shoe.
- Shortly after The Third Solar Term of the Chinese Calendar (the Awakening of Insects), Qizhe returns home to spend his spring break with his mother. After meeting a man who he originally met online, he begins to lose control of his double life- one which is living true to himself, and the other, which is pretending to be the perfect son.
- Girls Always Happy confronts the contemporary city life with a brand new perspective, and portrays with astonishing precision, the spectacle of mutual repulsion, hatred, and harm in a single mother-daughter relationship in a Beijing Hutong. Yet from the despair grows the power of tender love.
- This is a video diary of the surreal lock-down made by the filmmaker couple who were trapped in a small, rented apartment in Shanghai. In the face of endless madness, the camera gradually breaks free from the window and observes a vast social isolation unprecedented in the country's history.
- Poet and photographer Ren Hang was renowned for his sensual images of Chinese youth, and in I've Got a Little Problem, Zhang chronicles the artist's struggle with the depression, public morality, and painful criticism that sent his life spiraling out of control.
- A muggy summer of 2009, reality and memory tangled together, water from the canal soaked everyone in those vanishing days.
- Koali and Rice tells the story of widow Lin Xiumei's discovery that after raising two sons who inevitably left home, her reality has changed. From someone who was once "needed," she has become someone who is "irrelevant," inflicting deep confusion in her life. The sudden death of Qing Er, her only friend 10 years younger than her, is also a massive shock to her. After 70 years, she decides to prove the worth of her existence before death takes her. Through others' help, Qing Er's "ghost's" guidance, and "Goddess'" direction, she takes on an unlikely task. In the process of finding her lost self, will Lin Xiumei's wish to regain the attention of her family finally becomes possible?
- Observation of a crisis in restrained B&W, at micro and macro level. With the COVID-19 pandemic unfolding across the globe, an elderly woman fights for her life in a hospital in China. The family refuses to budge from her side, no matter what.
- A fashion shoot on the beach is derailed when the elaborate backdrop disappears overnight, swallowed by the sea. The assistant tries to recover it as the film subtly transitions into fantasy.
- A Chinese girl named Xingxi travels alone to Alor Setar, a town in Northern Malaysia. As the result of a blown tire, she experiences three variant adventures. She introduces herself to people as different identities with mysterious secrets. Brooke claims herself a traveler in the first adventure, but an anthropologist in the second adventure. In the third adventure, Brooke is a disheartened woman who comes across French writer Pierre. Two lonely travelers become intimate friends. They share their respective insights into life, death, and love. As the enigmatic story of Alor Setar begins to unfold, Brooke tells Pierre the true reason why she has come. Nature divulges her sought for love with the magical Blue Tears.
- Life on a small village in China during the last years of the Cultural Revolution takes a different course when the people is asked to prepare and perform a classic opera for government officials, entangling past, present and fiction.
- The splash of water is like a bomb, about to break the tranquility of the pool.
- Dreaming about her dead son frequently before her grandson is about to work abroad, grandma and her grandson embark on a journey to find a psychic.
- An old coffin painter, whose son was murdered, waits for the killer to leave prison. A mother and her daughter move to his neighborhood, which changes him. Will he still want vengeance?
- In a southern Chinese town, the newly introduced firework ban is changing people's lives. On the Chinese New Year's Eve, an 8-year-old boy, Dian Dian sets out on his journey, searching for fireworks. Through his eyes, we see how different people are adapting their traditions under the new regulations. Based on the short story 'Air Cannon' by Zhanhei Wang.
- The story of a boy who needs a pair of skates in winter in a small northeastern town.
- Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering A mega-structure under rapid development Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd We keep performing ourselves hard Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space... This moment, he is a flaneur of night LA; Next moment, he is laughing on Shanghai street Today, she is a killer in suits; Next day, she is a body on beach without reason Maybe each layer keeps a "you" always in Confusion, loneliness, fragility, indifference, When smiling, mostly it's because seeing the absurdity of life itself Living in a daily routine, a sense of detachment haunts Life Imitation (2016) is the first feature film made by Chinese video artist Chen Zhou. It is a non-fiction film, an expanded documentary. It is a work parallels game image and image from daily life, a work that blurs virtual world and real world. It is an exploration through reality, dream and virtuality, also a group portrait of contemporary Chinese urban young lives. It brings you into and out of the Chinese young's fragmented daily life with its own rhythm.You will see their confusion and pain, fantasy and struggle.You will feel both the texture of their city and daily life that encircles them. Ultimately, it encourages you enter your own inner world, finding some relief, gaining some comfort, or generating some doubt.You name it.