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Mass (2001)
A film about queer and religion
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Night Scene (2005)
A candid peek into the culture of male sex workers in Beijing.
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The Old Testament (2001)
This three-part film explores homosexuality in communist China.
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Feeding Boys, Ayaya (2003)
A Christian virgin tries to save gay male prostitutes when his brother becomes one.
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Withered in a Blooming Season (2005)
Brotherly love goes too far when Feng gets his twin sister pregnant while both of them are still in high school, creating a problem that's bigger than both of them. Convincing his gay friend Le Le to take the blame seems like the best option.
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My Fair Son (2007)
When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their many differences -- including Ray's revelation that he's gay, which his father struggles to accept.
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Star Appeal (2008)
Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en directs this gay-themed sci-fi drama about Xiao Bo, a bisexual man who discovers a stranger by the roadside, naked and claiming to be from Mars.
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The Narrow Path (2004)
A young man wandering naked along a seemingly endless country road claims that he's an alien. So do the three other young men (also naked) who join him. These 'aliens' eventually find their route blocked—by five macho toughs, who see in them both potential ransom money and potential illicit pleasures.
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We are the … of Communism (2007)
The Yuanhai Migrants Children’s School, which serves children of migrant laborers in Beijing, is shut down by city officials for reasons never made clear. The students and teachers manage to continue class, first by sneaking into the shuttered campus, then moving inside a ruined factory, and even setting up class on the street. Following the personal journeys of students as they battle bureaucratic corruption for their right to learn, Cui exposes a crisis of social values in the wake of China’s economic reforms.
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Enter the Clowns (2002)
Xiao Bo lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving. He kneels at the deathbed of his father who has become a woman, and whose dying wish is to have oral sex with his/her son. His boyfriend Nana has also undergone a sex change, but Xiao Bo no longer finds her attractive as a woman. A sexual chain reaction ensues that wreaks havoc on traditional Chinese roles that govern male and female, parent and child.
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Queer China, 'Comrade' China (2009)
This documentary reviews and summarises the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past three decades in China. We interviewed thirty prominent figures in the gay community, who have experienced the changes of views and life-styles regarding homosexuality.
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Refrain (2006)
Two brothers are the focus of this film. The older brother has a mental disability and the younger brother has AIDS. Since their parents abandoned them long time ago, they depend on each other for survival. The little brother feeds the two on the earnings from his singing. Each song that the older brother can sing was taught him by the younger brother. Yet he had bits of liturgical knowledge that the younger one does not. When the little brother knows he is approaching death, he brings his brother to the nearby train station for a last glance of the landscape they grew up with. He wants to kill both himself and his brother. However, the older brother is very afraid of death and wants a final, big meal. In the evening, the big brother cooks dinner for the younger one. After, they bathe each other’s feet, then make love, till the younger brother dies in ecstasy. That’s the big brother’s way of letting the younger one feel eternal joy in his deep sleep.
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An Interior View of Death (2003)
A couple twins of Azrael,who are in love,make a ablution for the people died in the age of automobile at a abandoned garage-dump.They try to make the Deads understand the different meaning of death.But what people expect,is to come back to the world of living.They always try to elope back to the life while the twins kiss themselves.But they fail all the time.Having no alternative,they start to learn from the twins,how to surpass the power of death "silently".Finally,together with the twins of Azrael,they stride in the brand new world of life.
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Shitou And That Nana (2005)
Shitou is Nuonuo’s girl friend. They have always loved each other. Nuonuo is the little sister of Mingming, who also fell in love with Shitou after their first meeting. Enmity began to develop between the two sisters.
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Meat and Three Veg (2007)
A documentary pastiche about living in contemporary China, constituted by images of immigrant workers’ on-street KTV singing; open-air community dancing parties; the campus life and extracurricular activities of high school and college students; the job of killing mosquitoes done by children of migrant workers; fragments of gay love stories; the wedding of a film director; as well as a farmer coming from their hometown to Beijing, kneeling on a flyover seeking justice. This documentary film is intended to present a kaleidoscopic view of everyday life in contemporary China.
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Keep Cool and Don't Blush (2003)
Early film by Cui Zi’en.
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Only Child, Upward, Downward, Forward, Backward, Rightward and Leftward (2007)
A philosophical essay written in visuals. The pioneer in Chinese queer cinema, Cui Zi’en, talks about carnal instinct from a philosophical point of view in allegory form. Physical liberation is the way to true freedom.


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