Ah Girl
Winner of Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award, this beautifully affecting portrayal of young sisters navigating their parents’ divorce revolves around a pair of stunning child performances.
The Dollhouse
When you invite someone into your home, how do you treat them? Play along with little Juniper and help her learn the kindness her family lacks.
A Girl Unknown
In this gorgeous, multiple award-winning tale, a young woman comes of age and searches for her identity in the era of China’s one-child policy.
Her Silence
Unvoiced emotions and cultural tensions shimmer in this restrained story of a Singaporean couple visiting their daughter in Sydney.
Light Pillar
This amusingly deadpan portrait of loneliness, the death of cinema and technology’s seductive appeal combines animation and live action in visionary ways.
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Through a canny postcolonial lens, a filmmaker whose Western name is at odds with her Chinese heritage peels back conflicting layers of family history.
Replica
Like a gender-flipped Her, this empathetic documentary follows three Chinese women whose yearning for intimacy is met by their AI partners.
Shades of Silk
Long out of circulation, this evocatively elliptical tale of Sapphic yearning in 1930s Shanghai – newly restored – has been hailed as a major rediscovery.
A Soil A Culture A River A People
In a dystopian future, a silent, observant Chinese man wanders through a simulacrum of a German city.
Time and Tide
A Melbourne filmmaker returns to the small Chinese town of his childhood, reconnecting with his family under difficult, emotionally profound circumstances.
Too Few to Mention
Before disappearing from her life, an undocumented father shares a final moment with the daughter for whom he’s sacrificed everything.
We Are All Strangers
The first Singaporean film to screen in competition in the Berlinale’s 70-plus-year history, Anthony Chen’s latest feature is an epic, tender tale of biological and found family.
Whispers in May
The winner of the main prize at CPH:DOX, this impressionistic hybrid documentary follows a teenage girl on a quest to find a ceremonial skirt.
The Wind in Ash
A genderqueer photographer reframes memories of childhood alienation in this tender tale about the hopeful potential of images to reconcile the past.
Ah Girl — 泡泡糖女孩
The Dollhouse — La Maison de Poupée
A Girl Unknown
Her Silence — 她的沉默
Light Pillar — 寒夜灯柱
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
Replica
Shades of Silk — Ombres de Soie
A Soil A Culture A River A People
Time and Tide
Too Few to Mention — 次別離
We Are All Strangers — 我们不是陌生人
Whispers in May — Chun Ri Huan You