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Kaili Blues

Leaving May 31 • 1h 49m

Directed by Bi Gan • 2015 • China
Starring Chen Yongzhong, Guo Yue

With his dazzling 2015 debut feature KAILI BLUES, filmmaker, poet, and photographer Bi Gan established himself as one of the most exciting new voices in world cinema, earning comparisons to Andrei Tarkovsky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. A dreamlike odyssey in which a doctor on a quest to find his brother’s abandoned child finds himself transported through the past and future, KAILI BLUES features as its centerpiece an astounding, forty-one-minute outdoor tracking shot that must be seen to be believed.

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