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Kanopy
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7.1
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72
/413/
72
/367/
3.9
/24846/
95
/92/
74
/88/

A Touch of Sin (2013)
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
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Kanopy
75
6.4
/275/
65
/10/
71
/3/
3.2
/1966/
89
/18/
74
/5/

Art College 1994 (2025)
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
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78
73
7.3
/7953/
72
/165/
72
/163/
4.0
/16041/
91
/55/
80
/235/
81
/10/

Still Life (2006)
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
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Kanopy
71
6.9
/615/
67
/15/
69
/17/
3.5
/942/
94
/31/
58
/6/
72
/11/

Old Stone (2016)
When a drunken passenger causes taxi driver Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, he stops to help the victim. As no ambulance arrives he drives him to the hospital, but soon has to face the rules of today's Kafkaesque China. With his family and life endangered, he desperately seeks a way out.
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Kanopy
71
7.1
/311/
85
/24/
69
/13/
3.6
/708/
83
/12/
70
/7/

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014)
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
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Kanopy
71
7.2
/4690/
72
/45/
68
/70/
3.6
/2066/
77
/61/
83
/218/
65
/22/

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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Criterion Channel
76
66
7.4
/3398/
72
/73/
70
/92/
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/8746/
80
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79
/59/
76
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Platform (2001)
China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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Criterion Channel
80
65
7.4
/3743/
73
/100/
72
/117/
3.9
/11313/
100
/8/
87
/21/

Pickpocket (1997)
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
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Criterion Channel
72
63
7.1
/3745/
70
/55/
69
/71/
3.8
/7344/
74
/46/
66
/101/
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The World (2004)
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
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59
6.9
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68
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/59/
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/1825/
100
/7/
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/91/

Ten Years (2015)
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
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Criterion Channel
66
55
6.8
/2803/
67
/44/
64
/53/
3.8
/6920/
61
/31/
68
/73/
61
/10/

Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
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Kanopy
72
47
6.6
/579/
62
/27/
66
/15/
3.6
/2677/
88
/17/
78
/7/

The Shadowless Tower (2023)
Gu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by new friend, photographer Ouyang Wenhui, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.
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Kanopy
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26
6.6
/694/
67
/24/
63
/21/
3.5
/972/
58
/12/
50
/1/

Crosscurrent (2016)
A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.
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22
6.5
/268/
70
/11/
58
/10/
3.4
/685/
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Cry Me a River (2008)
An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require?
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7.4
/5/
100
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Scholars Under Fire (2025)
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2.3
/15/
50
/1/

Let It Be (2012)
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70
/1/
70
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Imperfect Perfect Life (2021)
Crew member Lei Menghan, unable to repay his debts and with nowhere else to turn, reluctantly agrees to his ex-wife's request to take care of her current husband, Hua Chengzhi, a primary school principal who is paraplegic. In return, she promises to lend him the money needed to settle his debts. Throughout their time together, Lei Menghan and Hua Chengzhi face numerous challenges but gradually earn each other's trust through genuine efforts. Ultimately, after a series of events that bring them closer, they support and help each other grow. Together, they rekindle hope in their lives during their lowest points.
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The Roku Channel
66
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6.5
/729/
67
/27/
66
/15/

Tiger Wolf Rabbit (2024)
Three parents who have lost their children are involved with each other because of a deal; they have no soul in their eyes and hatred in their hearts, and each of them, with their own purposes, set out on the road of seeking revenge for their children, and staged a bizarre and dangerous killing in the barren land.
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70
/1/

Miss You on the Missed Night (2020)
This is a story that takes place at night, with street corner restaurants, streetlights, a rain, and people coming and going, witnessing the missed and missed experiences of a father and daughter.
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7.8
/13/
80
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Carp Leaping Over Dragon's Gate (2023)
In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her daughter into China's top universities through "college entrance exam immigration" change both of their destinies. However, this has put them into an even more precarious situation than when they started.
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55
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5.5
/149/
54
/7/
51
/8/
3.0
/308/

Dwelling by the West Lake (2024)
A mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.
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50
/1/

Brutality Factory (2007)
Modern China. On a bright sunny day, in a building site, an industrial complex is being deconstructed. Night falls. The ruins of the factory are empty and silent. Phantoms appear, voices are heard, telling their stories....From the anthology The State of the World.
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40
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Assassination (2019)
Shanghai Bund in years of isolation. Zhou Qifang, president of the Sea Breeze Chamber of Commerce, and his protégé, Lu Nansheng, fight to the death against Saito, a Japanese young general, in a life-and-death battle.
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Criterion Channel
56
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5.8
/224/
45
/7/
56
/5/
3.3
/387/

Xiao Shan Going Home (1995)
Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people from his hometown who have also been living in Beijing-construction workers, train ticket scalpers, university students, attendant, prostitutes-but no one wants to go back with him. Dispirited and confused, he searches out one after another of his old friends who are still in Beijing. Finally he leaves his wild long hair, the symbol of his life in the city, at a roadside barber stand as his offering to Beijing.
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Admission (2025)
Every parent wants to secure the best possible future for their child. For Sun and Li, that means getting their six-year-old son, Yu, admitted to an elite international school. However, after the interview, whispers of rejection emerge, prompting the couple to meet with their trusted "helpers" – a board member and an admissions agent – in a hotel room to find out who is to blame. As suspicion mounts, hidden motives and quiet frustrations begin to surface, revealing that the school admission process is merely a reflection of deeper anxieties concerning success, security and self-worth.
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The Fool and the Temple
On the outskirts of the village, another accident occurs at Mr. Zhou's quarry... The village is on edge, and rumor has it that the curse that Mr. Zhou's quarry has brought upon the village is the cause of the disaster. The village elder, Uncle Eight, sparks the flames. Rumors begin to spread. Workers, villagers, the village chief, the injured factory worker, and so on create a series of events, and gradually put pressure on the Zhou boss and his wife, so that the Zhou family's financial resources are cut off. In the end, Mr. Zhou is forced to direct an alternative and absurd farce of sacrificing to the gods.
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Guard of the Tree Spirit (2021)
In the south of Yunnan, there are mountains, rivers, ancient trees, and tea gardens. The simple beliefs of the local Bulang people are the basis for maintaining their homeland and the manifestation of their strength. A film based on the spiritual connotation of the Bulang people's reverence and protection of nature in the Bulang mountain village of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.
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Fish Bone (2025)
Eighteen-year-old girl Li Qi failed the college entrance examinations. She disobeyed her mother, refusing to return to school to be a returning student. The relationship between Li Qi and her mother worsened. At classmate Xiaowei’s birthday party, Li Qi and Xiaowei had a quarrel. Li Qi smashed Xiaowei’s newly-bought iPhone in a rage. Unexpectedly, her originally peaceful summer life was changed after the quarrel. Facing the crisis of claiming compensation by her classmate, Li Qi chose to hide it from her mother, determined to keep it as her secret and solve the problem alone. And this secret was like a fishbone stuck in her throat, gradually becoming an unspeakable discomfort for her. The bitterness and pains of growing-up come one after another. She began to rethink her relationship with her mother, and her relationship with the world.
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Silent Ghosts (2023)
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WANG HONG WEI: CHINESE INDIE FILM (2018)
The player of Jia Zhangke's early film "Xiao Wu" and the famous independent film activist Wang Hongwei talked about Chinese independent films at the IFF Independent Film Forum.
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Seizing the Glave (2007)
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No Problem (2021)
Zuo Shouquan is the director of the morning paper in a north-eastern city. He has a daughter, Zuo Mingming, who lives with his ex-wife. The girl is neglecting her studies. She is not particularly interested in her education. Her father wants her to move and start working at his newspaper. Zuo Mingming won’t have it; she plays in a band and her only dream is to pursue a musical career in the south. Father versus daughter, north versus south – a deeply rooted conflict between different systems of values in a contemporary Chinese comedy.
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Hero Huang Hua (2011)
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大雾 (2008)
Non-narrative series of shots: in factory, sex workers etc.


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