Forbidden China
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- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao ZhaoFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- DirectorYang LiStarsYixiang LiBaoqiang WangShuangbao WangTwo coal miners and conmen looking for their next murder victim decide on a naïve country boy desperately looking for a job.
- DirectorYang LiStarsLu HuangYouan YangYuling ZhangA young woman is kidnapped and sold to a villager in the mountains.
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsQingyu YanXiaodan YangA young woman who has been abandoned by her husband is left to cope with her mentally challenged and epileptic 13-year-old son. Dong Dong suffered brain damage during an acute epileptic seizure at the age of 6. He seems to be good at nothing except trouble. Liang Dan, his mother, clings stubbornly to the hope that her child will be normal again some day. As Dong Dong is rejected from schools Liang Dan's efforts seem futile and she loses hope.
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsSi HanJun HuJing YeBefore the 1990s P.R.China criminalized the LGBT population. Without family law and marriage law for the LGBT couples, many had to secretly encounter for sexual activities with the risk of police arrests.
- DirectorYe LouStarsXun ZhouHongsheng JiaZhongkai HuaAfter getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsYou GeGong LiBen NiuAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
- DirectorZhuangzhuang TianStarsTian YiWenyao ZhangXiaoman ChenThe lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorChangwei GuStarsJing AnLi FengChangwei GuChina in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the life of an ordinary working family as seen through its three siblings.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHongwei WangTao ZhaoLiang JingdongA theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
- DirectorChao YangStarsLe GengJieping ChangTwo students travel across rural China looking for some meaning to their lives.
- DirectorQuan'an WangStarsZhengwu ChengXiong ChunleiLiv FuyouDiagnosed with cancer and unable to afford treatment, a woman decides to leave her unhappy marriage search for her first love in Beijing.
- DirectorBingjian LiuStarsLongjun LiQin LiaoXingkun WeiDesperate to support her family and earn enough money to get her husband out of jail, a woman with an unusual crying style becomes a professional mourner.
- DirectorShuo WangStarsXiaogang FengXiaopei HuFan XuA middle-aged man raises his son all by himself. He works as the chairman of the labor union and acts the way of putting on airs and cocky style both at work and home. He tries to build good relations with son but it does not work.
- DirectorChi ZhangStarsDeyuan LuoXuan HuangLuoqian ZhengIn a poor mining town in western China, stories of a father and his two children intertwine. The misfortunes of son and daughter alike unravel to illuminate the complicated relationships masked by their community's hard exterior. Presented by the Global Film Initiative.
- DirectorYe LouStarsCorinne YamTahar RahimJalil LespertA female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. They have an intense relationship based on sexual attraction, mistrust, submissiveness and a dependence that leads them out of control and with no boundaries.
- DirectorJie HaoStarsYushan CaoLin ChenXiulan ChenIn Gu Jia Gou Village, 150 km from Beijing, men outnumber women. Some buy wives from faraway Sichuan province. Other remain bachelors; they gossip and complain together - yet find ways to have a sex life. Lao Yang is still in love with the girl he was forbidden to marry as a young man; she is now the middle-aged wife of the village head, but they sneak out for secret trysts. Yet, Lao Yang wants more...
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsRongcai FuChao JiDan LiuWu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. She feels lonely after her husband died, and she takes a night train to another city to visit a dating service. After a series of unsuccessful dates, she meets Li Jun. It quickly becomes obvious that he is hiding a secret: he is the widower of one of the female convicts of which Wu Hongyan assisted in the execution. Li Jun is torn apart by his feelings, as he is both attracted to Wu Hongyan, and having a desire for revenge for his executed wife.
- DirectorTao PengStarsYuanbing GaoDequn HanQifa HongA couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
- DirectorFendou LiuStarsLifan DongYitian HaiHaibin LiA sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
- DirectorFendou LiuStarsFan LiaoMonica Siu-Kei MokYitian HaiWong Yiu was a very shameless person and a blackmailer until one day he met a waitress named Ni Chen. He thought Ni Chen was like any other girls that could be controlled by him, but her stubbornness was way beyond his imagination. As time goes by, they both lost their ways and losing themselves in the process. He was not as free as he once was. Insanity causes him to end her life. Eight years later, Wong Yiu stepped out from the jail. He carried a gun and went to look for Ni Chen's mother at her home wishing to fulfill his own will.
- DirectorStanley KwanStarsYe LiuJun HuHe DuA young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
- DirectorCao FeiNing OuArmed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China's urban sprawl. China's rapid modernization literally traps the village of San Yuan Li within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people. The villagers move to a different rhythm, thriving on subsistence farming and traditional crafts. They resourcefully reinvent their traditional lifestyle by tending rice paddies on empty city lots and raising chickens on makeshift rooftop coops. Directed by acclaimed visual artists Ou Ning and Cao Fei and commissioned by the Venice Biennale, SAN YUAN LI explores the modern paradox of China's economic growth and social marginalization.
- DirectorJian FanStarsYu XiuhuaZhou JinxiangYu WenhaiIt is true that there is still tomorrow, what a pity that there is still tomorrow.
- DirectorYing NingStarsHuang HungQinqin LiSola Liu
- DirectorWang Bing50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.
- DirectorNing HaoStarsQiang LiThe film tells a somewhat humorous and tragic story about a Buddhist monk in a remote Shanxi village trying to repair the statue in his dilapidated temple. After encountering bureaucratic government employees, crooked policemen, and thugs who lie to him or rob him, he finally decides to bamboozle superstitious believers to raise the money.
- DirectorJie HaoStarsLan YeSi FengXia GeTiedan's love experience started early in the age of 8 when he fell into adult Mei Jie, but Mei Jie moved to other place with her daughters when the Er-Ren-Tai traditional opera was forbidden. When Mei Jie and her daughters return years later, grown-up Tiedan still misses her. He restarts his emotional and marital life with the three daughters.
- DirectorYue LüStarsZhiwen WangTong WangCheng AhSet in 1990s China, a group of novelist have gathered in a hotel, having conversations in regard of poetry and the lack of it in reality.