Feature
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Black Dog

A taciturn loner and a stray dog bond in this beautiful tale of cross-species kindred spirits set against widescreen images of the Gobi Desert.

Dir. Guan Hu / 2024 / 106 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Blue Sun Palace

The complexities of the migrant experience are tenderly depicted in this deeply felt debut feature, which arrives fresh from Cannes Critics’ Week.

Dir. Constance Tsang / 2024 / 116 mins / USA / Mandarin
Short
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Break No.1 & Break No.2

A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.

Dir. Lei Lei / 2024 / 18 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Brief History of a Family

This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.

Dir. Jianjie Lin / 2023 / 99 mins / France, Denmark, Qatar, China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Caught by the Tides

Fresh from Cannes competition, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest portrait of Chinese society in flux is an epic drawn from over two decades of footage.

Dir. Jia Zhang-ke / 2024 / 111 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Dìdi

This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.

Dir. Sean Wang / 2024 / 93 mins / USA / English, Mandarin
Short
Past Event

It follows It passes on

Postwar memories of the Taiwanese Kinmen Islands are seen as if through broken glass, summoned by way of incense, ceramics, sand, light and shadows.

Dir. Erica Sheu / 2023 / 5 mins / Taiwan / Mandarin, Japanese
Short
Past Event

Me & Mazzy Melancholy

Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.

Dir. David Tse / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English, Mandarin, Japanese
Feature
Past Event

Mongrel

An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.

Dir. Chiang Wei Liang, Yin You Qiao / 2024 / 128 mins / France, Taiwan, Singapore / Mandarin, Taiwanese, Thai
Short
Past Event

Remains of the Hot Day

The Berlinale’s Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) winner is a shrine to fading memories from the director’s own childhood.

Dir. Wenqian Zhang / 2024 / 24 mins / China / Mandarin, Wu Chinese
Short
Past Event

Shé (Snake)

A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.

Dir. Renee Zhan / 2023 / 15 mins / UK / English, Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones

Receiving the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus Special Mention, this playful coming-of-age story follows the intertwined lives of two Chinese students.

Dir. Youjia Qu / 2024 / 107 mins / China / Mandarin
Feature
Past Event

Some Rain Must Fall

This Berlinale award-winning domestic noir is the arresting first feature from Melbourne-trained Short Film Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang.

Dir. Qiu Yang / 2024 / 98 mins / USA, France, Singapore, China / Mandarin, Wu Chinese
Feature
Past Event

An Unfinished Film

When an unfinished film, reborn, is stuck in stasis again, its creators meditate on how their lives have been transformed by the pandemic.

Dir. Lou Ye / 2024 / 105 mins / Germany, Singapore / Mandarin