Up the Mountain (2018) Douban

★ 8.0 (5 ratings) director: 张杨

other title: 火山

《火山》的故事发生在大理双廊镇伙山村，来自上海的艺术家沈见华和妻子秋秋、女儿莺莺移居在这里。他们住在一个安静的山头上，沈老师构思着自己的创作，秋秋幸福的等待着第二个孩子的诞生。几年前一个偶然的机会，沈老师发现这里的白族老太太有很好的色彩和造型天赋，于是他指导老太太们画起了农民画。当地的小伙子定龙，在几年前拜沈老师为师父，学习摄影和绘画，同时也担任了农民画社的社长……日子在苍山洱海间缓慢地流过，很多事情像是一成不变，但很多事情又在悄悄的变化着。

Becoming Li Jiahe (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

少女佳禾

★ 4.3 (24 ratings) director: 周笋 actor: 邓恩熙 / 李感 …

other title: 少女佳禾 / 佳禾 …

Jiahe's mother was murdered unexpectedly two years ago. Because of that, she and her father both lost their focus in life. Jiahe's father failed to find any decent job after retiring from the wrestling team, so he worked for a slaughterhouse as a beef deliverer. This job made Jiahe a victim of public shaming. She became lonely and helpless, and formed her own personal moral code — fighting back in every way possible towards shaming and unfairness.

Tough Out (2020) IMDb TMDB Douban

棒！少年

★ 8.5 (435 ratings) director: 许慧晶 actor: 马虎 / 梁正双 …

other title: 棒！少年 / 홈런: 야구소년

In the suburbs of Beijing, a group of troubled teenagers learn to play baseball with a famous baseball coach, while struggling through their internal conflicts and the inability to play baseball games like professionals. When an accident took place in the winter of 2017, countless local residents got evacuated in Beijing, the baseball team, as well as their playfield were facing the unexpected obstacle—the relocation of their headquarter. With the World Series of the Little Pony League waiting around the corner, the whole team will have to pull themselves together and face the competition on the international stage.

Wisdom Tooth (2019) IMDb TMDB Douban

日光之下

★ 6.4 (82 ratings) director: 梁鸣 actor: 吕星辰 / 吴晓亮 …

other title: 日光之下 / Grand frère

Gu Xi is about to lose her job because of undocumented citizenship status. While making use of all her connections in her effort to get official registration papers, she also tries to getting along with her brother's new girlfriend.

Balloon (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

དབུགས་ལྒང་།

★ 7.8 (599 ratings) director: 万玛才旦 actor: 索朗旺姆 / 金巴 …

other title: 气球 / དབུགས་ལྒང་། …

2019 Chinese film

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Little Joe

★ 6.4 (109 ratings) director: 杰茜卡·豪丝娜 actor: 艾米丽·比查姆 / 本·卫肖 …

other title: 小小乔 / 极乐品种(港) …

Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.

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A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão

★ 7.6 (79 ratings) director: 卡里姆·埃诺兹 actor: 朱莉娅·斯托克勒 / 卡罗尔·杜阿尔特 …

other title: La vita invisibile di Eurídice Gusmão / Søstrene Gusmãos usynlige liv …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

好友 (2018) Douban

★ 6.6 (14 ratings) director: 杨平道 actor: 陆叔远 / 苏子情 …

other title: My Dear Friend

寻找男友的菁菁来到他家乡，却意外掺和了两个老头寻找身世的奇幻旅程，揭开了一段60年来无从言说的情感。老头水木和妻子阿芳留守在村庄生活，水木有一个不为人知的好友仲生。仲生是深山上小水库的管理员。阿芳看似不知道仲生的存在，但因缘际会，命运交错，三个人有着不能明言的关系。仲生感知大限将至，却不知身后将栖身何处。水木决定顺仲生的意愿送他“回家”。水木恳求菁菁开车送他们一程。一路上，他们遇见了自己的童年和青年，故去的母亲还有年幼的阿芳，像是重走人生路。

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親密さ

★ 7.8 (41 ratings) director: 滨口龙介 actor: 平野铃 / 佐藤亮 …

other title: 친밀함 / 親密さ …

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

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小伟

★ 7.8 (439 ratings) director: 黄梓 actor: 彭杏英 / 薛立贤 …

other title: 小伟 / 慕伶，一鸣，伟明 …

Everything changes for the Ing family when the husband and father is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The mother, who is the main supporter has become more isolated, while the son is no longer certain about his future plans although he has been accepted to study abroad. The conflicted family returns to the father’s hometown for the tomb-sweeping ritual, but his original mountain tomb has been replaced by a newly built hotel.

马赛克少女 (2019) Douban

★ 5.8 (9 ratings) director: 翟义祥 actor: 王砚辉 / 王传君 …

other title: Mosaic Portrait

《马赛克少女》的故事起于一桩社会迷案。西南小镇14岁女孩徐萦因突发状况被卷入旋涡中心，父亲徐广军试图寻回公道却手足无措，来自大城市记者贾世明以外来眼光打量这片迷雾笼罩之地。
影片以人的疏离隔阂及生存空间为出发点，将空旷潮湿的地理环境纳入叙事，兼具写实风格与幻境隐喻。封闭 小镇的社会关系、不羁少女的真实生活，在迷离风景与窒息氛围中愈加难以洞察。

The Couple Is Not the Same Birds (2019) Douban

★ 6.4 (10 ratings) director: 谭振邦 actor: 谭玉波 / 孙淑华 …

other title: 夫妻不是同林鸟

《夫妻不是同林鸟》是一部以中国普通中产阶级家庭生活为背景的纪录片，拍摄于中国最大的边境城市，辽宁省丹东市。以一对离婚十五年的夫妇为主角，通过对当事人的采访和日常生活的展现，结合当年的珍贵录像资料，对比过去和现在的婚姻生活，展现二次婚姻的现状—— 导演本人的父母婚姻现状，以及他们对婚姻、爱情的观点和看法。

Obscure (2019) Douban

Obscure

★ 5.5 (8 ratings) director: 王崑琳 actor: Kylr Coffman / Lori Dorfman …

other title: 世外之子

少年、少女和父亲居住在荒芜干枯、与世隔绝的封闭世界里。在父亲宛若军事管训的威权宰制下，三人过着工作、吃饭、梳洗更衣、睡觉的极简生活，情感与语言皆被高度压抑与消弭，少年和少女只能悄悄共享亲密时刻。农畜生活平静无波澜，直到性与暴力突如其来的降临，才看见父权结构对少女的恣意蹂躏，以及成长中无力颠复的残酷事实。
Obscure is a coming-of-age story of a teenage boy who sexually awakens after discovering the dark sexual relationship between his father and sister. The sibling love and companionship, which once served to counterbalance familial strangeness, is now disturbed and gradually develops into a sexual attraction and desire.

A First Farewell (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

第一次的离别

★ 7.1 (113 ratings) director: 王丽娜 actor: 艾萨·亚森 / 凯丽比努尔·热合米图力 …

other title: 第一次的离别 / 第一次告别 …

When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.

黄河尕谣 (2018) Douban

★ 7.0 (27 ratings) director: 张楠 actor: 张尕怂

other title: 黄河谣 / Stammering Ballad

三十年前，甘肃黄河岸边的十万农民离乡迁居，陆续进入城镇，随人一起消失在黄土高原的还有世代传唱的黄河歌谣。出生于白银乡间的牧羊少年张尕怂从小患有口吃，却受到父辈熏陶，自幼喜欢民歌。
2012年，尕怂来到城市闯荡，阴差阳错走上演艺道路，四处在酒吧演出，寄希望于以此成名。他醉心于西北民歌，四处寻访学艺，也因“泥土味”的特色而受邀参加一档火热的电视选秀节目，成为广受欢迎的“民谣歌手”。正在此时，爷爷的意外离世让尕怂发现自己身上正在失去“农村味儿”，而远方的故土和家园也渐告崩裂。
未来迟迟还没来，等待成名的尕怂逐渐感到失落，能够慰籍心灵的只有麦穗泥土的深沉味道。而过去的已经过去， 唯有聆听家园故土的遥远回音。

I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

Skupljaci Perja

★ 4.9 (7 ratings) director: 亚历山大·彼得洛维奇 actor: 贝基姆·费赫米乌 / 奥利韦拉·卡塔琳娜 …

other title: 快乐的吉普赛人 / Skupljaci Perja …

The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.

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Tokyo-Ga

★ 8.0 (80 ratings) director: 维姆·文德斯 actor: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 / 笠智众

other title: 寻找小津 / 东京画 …

1985 film by Wim Wenders

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Pina

★ 8.7 (169 ratings) director: Wim Wenders actor: 雷吉娜·阿德文托 / 玛洛·艾劳多 …

other title: 皮娜 / 翩娜(港) …

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

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Im Lauf der Zeit

★ 8.3 (83 ratings) director: 维姆·文德斯 actor: 吕迪格·福格勒 / 汉斯·齐施勒 …

other title: 시간이 흐르면 / Im Lauf der Zeit …

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

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Le Hussard sur le toit

★ 7.2 (66 ratings) director: 让-保罗·拉佩诺 actor: 朱丽叶·比诺什 / 奥利维埃·马丁内斯 …

other title: 屋顶上的轻骑兵 / Le Hussard sur le toit …

1995 film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau