Author: Golden Koala

Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Synopsis:

Hello Life is a documentary film about the real life of 15 people in 2017. Those people involved live in north and south of China, contains peddlers, the visual impaired, pub dancer, veteran, single mother, window cleaner, free-lancer, voluntary bike sharing maintainers, rickshaw puller, screw-seller, heart disease patient, forest ranger and so forth. Each of them makes great efforts to tough life while those efforts are exactly the light of life itself.

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Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Synopsis:

In Guizhou Province, China, a child who dies under the age of 14 is regarded as dying young, andcannot be buried in the family graveor be listed in the family tree. 5-year-old Haiwa, the only son of the protagonist Old Ho, is diagnosed with terminaldiseaseand will die soon. Old Ho doesn’t accept the fact that he won’t have any chance to visit his son’s grave; he, therefore, determines to donate all his son’s organs and carve his son’s name on thegravestone. However, Old Ho never expect it can be rather difficult to make organ donation.

Director’s Comments:

This film is based on real-life events. I take the film as a mirror to truthfully reflect the place where I live and the world that I cognise, as well as all the things I have heard and seen. My film is not aimed at moving people to tears or being a shot in the arm. Instead, it tries to describe objectively the true meaning of life, without appealing to the senses. This is also my original intention of making this film. Some scenes in the film would be sad but not that tearful, while they may leave the audience a heavy heart; some scenes would be hopeful but not that comfortable, while they could still warm the cockles of their heart.

Awards:

2019 GKCFF Best Director/Best Actor

Q/A Guest:

Director XU LEI

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Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Part one: Opening and Award Ceremony

Part two: Screening with Q\A session by Director HUANG HUANG

Synopsis:

Inland China in the late 90s, there is a junior high school focusing on martial arts with high standards of discipline. Under the headmaster’s firm management, everyone tries their best to work and live in the stifling atmosphere.

There is a young boy called Cuishan who cannot fit into the school. He has no interest in martial arts and shows great academic talent. However, due to the school’s focus on martial arts, his talent leads to a very difficult life in the school. He, therefore, repeatedly tries to run way, but all ends in failure.

The arrival of a young Chinese teacher breaks the balance there. Upon getting used to it, the new teacher gradually understands and sympathises Cuishan, trying to make a change on his own strength.

Finally, all the people find something different in their life, with Cuishan seizing a good opportunity to ‘run away’. The teacher also accepts the reality, gains personal growth, and decides to pursue a different life.

Awards：

• GKCFF 2019 Best Film of Golden Koala Award
• The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival The Spirit of Asia Award by the Japan Foundation Asia Center
• The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival Best Asian Future Film Award (nomination)

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Language: Cantonese

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Synopsis:

Mrs. Wong knows her husband is carrying on an affair, but for the sake of their marriage and autistic son, she has chosen to silently endure. However, the mistress comes to disturb them, and in the end, Mr. Wong leaves home after a flight. Feeling at a loss and struggling to watch over her son by herself, Mrs. Wong begins to plot ways to take revenge against the mistress, but in the run-up to the plan, she soon discovered that there can be other ways to become a better woman…

Awards:

2019 GKCFF Best Actress Award

Best New Actor in The 37th Hong Kong Film Awards (2018)

Shanghai International Film Festival

Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

Silk Road International Film Festival

Malaysia International Film Festival Asian Film Awards

Singapore Chinese Film Festival

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Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Chinese/English

Synopsis:

Mr.Big surname is Ye, and he goes by the single character “Yun”. He was born in Zhaowuda League in Inner Mongolia in 1970. Mr. Big now works in a local copper company. In his nearly ten years of life, except for the change of seasons, it seemed to be the same from beginning to end. Mr.Big has always had an idea, want to go to Tibet, to see the Everest; This seems no small thing because of the harsh geographical environment was discouraged by the people around, Mr.Big determined to have a little different in ordinary life, in the ordinary life to meet their own little wish, so he insisted on the way to persuade friends set foot on Tibet…

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