Explore: Mandarin
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.
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.
Break No.1 & Break No.2
A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.
Brief History of a Family
This taut, visually inventive Chinese thriller has drawn comparisons to buzzy social-class parables Saltburn and Parasite.
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.
Dìdi
This double-Sundance-winning semi-autobiographical film surveys a coming of age marked by Myspace and Motorola flip phones during the 2000s.
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.
Me & Mazzy Melancholy
Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
Mongrel
An undocumented Thai caregiver grapples with exploitation in this evocative portrait that received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention at Cannes.
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.
Shé (Snake)
A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.
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.
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.
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.