We present the programme for the Mint Chinese Film Festival which will take place from February 1 – 4, 2024 at the Keswick Alhambra Cinema (Keswick, UK)

Opening Film
Millennium Mambo by Hou Hsiao Hsien – Taiwan | 2021 – 101 minutes

Festival Gala
Xi Xiang Ji (Romance of the Western Chamber) by Minwei Li, Hou Yao – Hong Kong | 1927 – 50 minutes (With live Music Performance)

Special Programmes
Green Night by Han Shuai – Hong Kong | 2023 – 92 minutes
Here by Bas Devos – Belgium | 2023 – 82 minutes
Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden – China | 2023 – 109 minutes
Yangzi’s Confusion by Jue Li – China | 2023 – 101 minutes
Yiyi by Edward Yang – Taiwan | 2000 – 173 minutes

Feature Films in Competition
Growing Apart by Long Lingyun – China | 2022 – 90 minutes
Guián by Nicole Chi Amén – Costa Rica | 2023 – 76 minutes
Luo Luo’s Youth by Luo Luo – China | 2023 – 103 minutes
Shen Kong by Chen Guan – China | 2021 – 103 minutes
Talks Overnight by Su Qiqi – Hong Kong | 2023 – 76 minutes
The One Who Runs Away is the Ghost by Qinyuan Lei – Germany, China | 2021 – 72 minutes
This Woman by Alan Zhang – China, Malaysia | 2022 – 90 minutes

Short Film Strand: Unconventional Strangers
Both Make Sense by Guan Yuntian – France | 2023 – 23 minutes
ChaCha by Chenghua Yang, Shang Zhang – China, France | 2022 – 13 minutes
Falling Night in Shanghai by Chantal Akerman – France | 2007 – 14 minutes
Like Wave Like Cloud by Yulin Yang – China | 2023 – 16 minutes
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Alvin Lee – Singapore | 2022 – 19 minutes

Short Film Competition 1
Daughter and Son by Yu Cheng – China | 2022 – 30 minutes
Innermost by Caochong Maing – China | 2022 – 15 minutes
Sunflower Girl by Holly M. Kaplan – USA | 2023 – 13 minutes
Thirstygirl by Alexandra Qin – USA | 2023 – 10 minutes
Wena by Natalie Kung – China | 2023 – 30 minutes

Short Film Competition 2
Apocalypse Later by Florian Rudolph, Kyrylo Alferiev, Yueqi Wu – Germany | 2023 – 11 minutes
Condition of Rabbits by Yanchen Wu – UK | 2023 – 3 minutes
Dear Parents by Adèle Shaykhulova – France | 2023 – 20 minutes
Heather’s Voice by Shicong Zhu – USA | 2023 – 17 minutes
Summer Past by Ruqiao Zhang – China | 2023 – 24 minutes
The Lost Ox by Jiawen Lei – China | 2023 – 20 minutes
When a Rocket Sits on the Launch Pad by Bohao Liu – China | 2023 – 12 minutes

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