Gwei Lun-Mei

After years in America, Chi returns to Taiwan for her grandmother’s funeral, reminisces about her childhood, and experiences her country as a democracy.

After winning the Berlinale Golden Bear with Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan returns with a hyper-stylised noir set in modern China’s underbelly. Twisting the conventions of the genre, this impressively crafted choreography of violence, moral decay and neon colours is striking, intoxicating cinema.

Zhang Zili wasn't always a badly paid security guard. He was once one of the best detectives on the police force. That is until injuries sustained during an investigation into a gruesome and unsolved murder case forced him into early retirement. That was five years ago and the killings have started again.

A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.

A masked freedom fighter, a female warrior, and a corrupt, Ming Dynasty eunuch converge at a remote inn that sits atop a buried city of treasures.