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Indie Chinese Cinema Week 2025 : Cinema As Language , Action and Future
- (This event was cancelled!)
Event by: CiLENS
Location: Moviemento, Kottbusser Damm 22, Berlin - Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
About event
Founded in 2022, Indie Chinese Cinema Week (ICCW) is a Berlin-based festival showcasing bold, original, and emotionally resonant works from the Chinese-speaking world.
As a curatorial platform exploring the complex realities of contemporary China and the wider Sinophone sphere, ICCW fosters transcultural dialogue through grounded and diverse perspectives.
The 4th ICCW is supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱｜𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲: 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗮𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
This year’s edition reimagines cinema not merely as a form of storytelling, but as a living language — a way of seeing, acting, and shaping the future.
Through a powerful lineup of six feature films and fifteen shorts — most of them German or Berlin premieres — ICCW 2025 invites audiences to journey across languages, geographies, and identities, exploring stories that delve into migration, labor, gender, queer experience, urban transformation, and the ever-evolving sense of belonging.
Tickets Via Moviemento Website
🎵 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆
On November 5, ICCW presents its Opening Party in collaboration with Berlin-based collective Jiā La — a night of Guqin performance, live acts, and DJ sets that brings together Berlin’s creative communities across film, music, art, and more!
🌟 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀
🎞️ 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑺𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒆 (面子) — Alice Wu | USA, 2004
A classic queer/lesbian rom-com of cultural clash and generational healing in New York’s Chinese community.
🎞️ 𝑾𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 (热带雨) — Anthony Chen | Singapore/Taiwan, 2019 | Berlin Premiere
A tender monsoon-season drama about womanhood, solitude, and rediscovery.
🎞️ 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 (𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈) 青春：归— Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands, 2024 | Berlin Premiere
The final chapter of Wang Bing’s acclaimed documentary trilogy, premiered at Venice — a profound, tender portrait of young factory workers, tracing labor, love, and return.
🎞️ 𝑺𝑯𝒆 (女他) — Zhou Shengwei | China, 2018 ｜Berlin Premiere
A unique, darkly imaginative stop-motion allegory of gender oppression and revolt.
🎞️ 𝑿𝒊𝑿𝒊 (曦曦) — Wu Fan | Taiwan/Philippines/South Korea, 2024｜Berlin Premiere
A poetic documentary on womanhood and friendship, following a Berlin-based performer’s free spirit. *Followed by Q&A with the editor Anna Magdalena Schlenker and protagonist XiXi in person*
🎞️ 𝑩𝒆𝒍 𝑨𝒎𝒊 (漂亮朋友) — Geng Jun | France, 2024｜Berlin Premiere
Queer absurdist comedy about identity, desire, and loneliness in a frozen town, widely regarded as the queer film of the year from Chinese cinema.
🎞️ 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀
𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 (𝑬)𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 流动之境 — Five shorts where motion and emotion converge, blurring public and private realms and rewriting space through cinema.
𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 母地轻喃 — Five shorts from ethnic minority regions begin with mother tongue and motherland, moving between everyday and myth.
𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙂𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚
(𝑹𝒆)𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 重写她声 — Five shorts by women filmmakers opening cinematic spaces for new languages and subjectivities, carving a room of their own on screen and rewriting possibilities for the future.
𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙂𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚
INFO & TICKETS
🎟️ €11 (regular) / €9 (reduced)
📅 November 6–9, 2025
📍 Moviemento Kino, Kottbusser Damm 22, Berlin
✨ Stay tuned for the full lineup and special announcements!
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We invite you to experience and explore cinema together as language, action, and future. See you at ICCW 2025!