China
This collection includes OVID's films from mainland China, many are from dGenerate Films, which specializes in distributing bold and independent films from China.
Films from Hong Kong and Taiwan are found in their respective collections.
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Stonewalling
Directed by Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka • Drama • With Honggui Yao • 2022 • 148 minutes
20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running o...
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Visible Secret (Ann Hui)
Directed by Ann Hui • Drama • With Eason Chan, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong • 2001 • 101 minutes
Spirits lurk everywhere in Ann Hui's horror-comedy, Visible Secret. Instantly infatuated by enigmatic amnesiac June (Shu Qi, Millennium Mambo) who has the ability to see spirits, Peter is swept into a world ...
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A Light Never Goes Out
Directed by Anastasia Tsang • Drama • With Sylvia Chang, Simon Yam • 2023 • 103 minutes
Directed by Anastasia Tsang and starring the legendary Sylvia Chang, A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT revolves around a woman attempting to reinvigorate the neon signs of Hong Kong after her husband's passing, while nu...
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Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2023 • 215 minutes
The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children’s garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in sparse, trash-strewn concrete dorms in the same building...
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11 Flowers
Directed by Xiaoshuai Wang • Drama • With Jingchun Wang, Wenqing Liu • 2011 • 115 minutes
One of China's foremost directors, Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams) has created a moving coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution.
11-year-old Wang lives w... -
Though I Am Gone
Directed by Hu Jie • Documentary • 2007 • 68 minutes
Pioneering filmmaker Hu Jie uncovers the tragic story of a teacher beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revolution.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution exploded throughout China, as Mao's Red Guards persecuted suspected Rightists....
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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Directed by Jia Zhang-Ke • Documentary • 2020 • 112 minutes
From master director Jia Zhang-Ke (Ash Is Purest White, A Touch of Sin) comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, ...
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Wrath of Silence
Directed by Yukun Xin • Drama • With Wu Jiang, Yang Song • 2017 • 119 minutes
Searching for his missing son in the rough mountains of Northern China, Zhang Baomin (Yang Song), a mute miner with a brutal past, confronts a world of corruption led by the villainous Chang Wannian (Wu Jiang), a cross...
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A New Old Play
Directed by QIU Jiongjiong • Drama • With Tao Gu, Yi Sicheng • 2022 • 180 minutes
Jiongjiong Qiu’s visually magnificent new film is a unique hybrid of fiction, historical reminiscence, and experimental theatre. Its overview of China from the 1930s to the 1980s is filtered through Qiu Yu, a Sichu...
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Karamay
Directed by XU Xin • Documentary • 2012 • 356 minutes
In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed nearly 300 schoolchildren. The students were performing for state officials and were told to stand by while the officials exited first. After...
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Only Cloud Knows
Directed by Xiaogang Feng • Drama • With Xuan Huang, Caiyu Yang, Fan Yu • 2019 • 132 minutes
After the death of his wife, a man decides to retrace their steps from the past, looking to reconnect with old friends and make right promises he made before her death.
"What could have been rather mour...
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Suburban Birds
Directed by QIU sheng • Drama • With Yihao Chen, Zhihao Chen, Jing Deng • 2018 • 118 minutes
A striking debut from China’s Qiu Sheng, SUBURBAN BIRDS is a tantalizing mystery and a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy rolled into one. Hao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to ...
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Battle of Memories
Directed by Leste Chen • Drama • With Bo Huang, Jinglei Xu, Yihong Duan, Zishan Yang • 2017 • 120 minutes
When a famous writer (Huang Bo) decides to have his memories wiped to forget a divorce, he regrets it. Attempting to recover the memories, he becomes haunted by psychopathic thoughts, acting...
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Chinese Portrait
Directed by WANG Xiao Shuai • Documentary • With Liu Xiaodong • 2018 • 79 minutes
From acclaimed director Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle; So Long, My Son) comes a personal snapshot of contemporary China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film con...
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Youth
Directed by Xiaogang Feng • Drama • With Xuan Huang, Caiyu Yang, Miao Miao • 2017 • 137 minutes
Performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives in this co...
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The Wasted Times
Directed by Er Cheng • Drama • With Ge You, Zhang Ziyi, Asano Tadanobu
• 2016 • 123 minutesSet against a chaotic, war torn Shanghai, “The Wasted Times” follows a local crime boss at the receiving end of the Japanese army’s attempt to forge a dubious alliance. Spanning three separate times duri...
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Lost And Love
Directed by Sanyuan Peng • Drama • With Andy Lau, Jing Boran, Sandra Ng, Tony Leung Ka-fai
• 2015 • 109 minutesAfter losing his two-year-old son, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a fourteen-year-long quest in search of his missing child. Hanging off the side of his motorcycle is his most valued token, th...
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Last Letter
Directed by Shunji Iwai • Drama • With Zhou Xun, Qin Hao, Zhang Zifeng, Du Jiang, Hu Ge, Tan Zhou, Wu Yanshu
• 2018 • 114 minutesYuan Zhilan (Zhou Xun) attends a class reunion in place of her sister Yuan Zhihua, who recently passed away. While there, she reunites with her high school sweethear...
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A Fool
Directed by Jianbin Chen • Drama • With Jianbin Chen, Jiang Qinqin, Wang Xuebing, Jin Shijia • 2014 • 97 minutes
Based on Hu Xuewen's novella "Running Moonlight", a Chinese shepherd tries to enlist help in getting his son released from prison; when a wandering stranger enters his life, diverting...
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Spring Tide
Directed by Lina Yang • Drama • With Hao Lei, Elaine Jin Yan-ling, Qu Junxi, Li Wenbo, Huang Shanghe
• 2019 • 124 minutesWhen a mother lives with her mother and her daughter, inevitable conflicts arise, including the revelation of a dark past. When these conflicts come to a boil during a famil...
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All About My Sisters
Directed by WANG Qiong • Documentary • 2021 • 175 minutes
In her debut film, director Qiong Wang builds a riveting portrait of her family reckoning with the lasting impact of China's one-child policy.
After giving birth to two daughters, Qiong's parents were desperate for a boy. When they learn...
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Angels Wear White
Directed by Vivian Qu • Drama • With Vicky Chen, Meijun Zhou, Le Geng • 2017 • 107 minutes
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says no...
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Before the Flood I
Directed by LI Yifan and Yan Yu • Documentary • 2005 • 147 minutes
A landmark documentary following the residents of the historic city of Fengjie as they clash with the officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.
China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest...
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Before The Flood II - Gong Tan
Directed by YAN Yu • Documentary • 2008 • 60 minutes
Yan Yu follows his groundbreaking documentary BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.
Gongtan, a historic village located on a tributary of ...