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Save My Soul
Director: Leung Kam Fai
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese
Duration: 14 minutes
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The silent young man meets the blind old man and "transforms" into a cat.
The dumb young man who was ostracized by his peers left the city to live in the suburbs. When food was no longer readily available, he stole the food left by the blind old man in the mountains for stray cats. The two lonely people began a strange relationship and relied on each other. The famous song "Love of a Lifetime" from "Journey to the West: The Final Chapter of Cinderella" slowly sounded, accompanied by dreamy pictures, bringing the audience to a virtual world where truth and falsehood intertwined. The work of Hong Kong director Leung Kam Fai is refreshing and was selected for screening at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival.
What will happen to the two lonely souls when the dumb young man "transforms" into a cat?
Director: Leung Kam Fai
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese
Duration: 14 minutes
🎞️
The silent young man meets the blind old man and "transforms" into a cat.
The dumb young man who was ostracized by his peers left the city to live in the suburbs. When food was no longer readily available, he stole the food left by the blind old man in the mountains for stray cats. The two lonely people began a strange relationship and relied on each other. The famous song "Love of a Lifetime" from "Journey to the West: The Final Chapter of Cinderella" slowly sounded, accompanied by dreamy pictures, bringing the audience to a virtual world where truth and falsehood intertwined. The work of Hong Kong director Leung Kam Fai is refreshing and was selected for screening at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival.
What will happen to the two lonely souls when the dumb young man "transforms" into a cat?
Video introduction | "The Orchard of Forking Paths"
⭐️《The Orchard with Forking Paths》⭐️
Director: Yang Xinyi
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 10 minutes
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Buried in an orchard with diverging paths, pineapples become the vehicle through which the destinies of three generations of women are connected in the absence of one father.
🍍This film is a light visual diary that traces private emotional experiences with a delicate and sensitive subjective camera. In the black-and-white image, the shadows of trees reflected on the wall and sleeping faces have a Maya Deren-style experimental film sensibility. The title of the film comes from "The Garden of Forking Paths", which is a riddle set by Borges, and the answer is time.
In the orchard with bifurcated paths, the stories of three generations of women are silently recorded.
⭐️《The Orchard with Forking Paths》⭐️
Director: Yang Xinyi
Genre: Narrative
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 10 minutes
🎞️
Buried in an orchard with diverging paths, pineapples become the vehicle through which the destinies of three generations of women are connected in the absence of one father.
🍍This film is a light visual diary that traces private emotional experiences with a delicate and sensitive subjective camera. In the black-and-white image, the shadows of trees reflected on the wall and sleeping faces have a Maya Deren-style experimental film sensibility. The title of the film comes from "The Garden of Forking Paths", which is a riddle set by Borges, and the answer is time.
In the orchard with bifurcated paths, the stories of three generations of women are silently recorded.
Odyssey 2024 Film Introduction | "The Unseen"
⭐️"The Unseen" ⭐️
Director: Wen Dao
Genre: Narrative
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 16 minutes
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The modern city is full of prosperity, with glamorous shops and towering buildings everywhere. Behind the glory of the city, there is a side that we usually don't see. In the cold wind, homeless children in Chinese cities just want to survive, looking for food and shelter everywhere. The two children have a bigger goal, hoping to reunite with their mother who abandoned them in Shanghai. Will passers-by lend them a hand, and can they finally reunite with their mother? This short film shows the audience the little-known dark side of the city and the group that has been ignored behind the rapid development. The child actors performed well and deserve praise.
⭐️"The Unseen" ⭐️
Director: Wen Dao
Genre: Narrative
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 16 minutes
🎞️
The modern city is full of prosperity, with glamorous shops and towering buildings everywhere. Behind the glory of the city, there is a side that we usually don't see. In the cold wind, homeless children in Chinese cities just want to survive, looking for food and shelter everywhere. The two children have a bigger goal, hoping to reunite with their mother who abandoned them in Shanghai. Will passers-by lend them a hand, and can they finally reunite with their mother? This short film shows the audience the little-known dark side of the city and the group that has been ignored behind the rapid development. The child actors performed well and deserve praise.
⭐️《Candy Rhapsody》Candy ⭐️
Director: Ying Xun
Type: Animation
Country of production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 15 minutes
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Candy is both the dead souls collected by the devil and the magic that conveys kindness in the human world. If fate is difficult to reverse, how can sweet magic gently change people's hearts?
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It seems that you can taste the sweetness of candy on the tip of your tongue. Can kindness heal everything?
Director: Ying Xun
Type: Animation
Country of production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 15 minutes
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Candy is both the dead souls collected by the devil and the magic that conveys kindness in the human world. If fate is difficult to reverse, how can sweet magic gently change people's hearts?
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It seems that you can taste the sweetness of candy on the tip of your tongue. Can kindness heal everything?
⭐️"Childhood Sweethearts"⭐️
Director: Edward Yang
This film continues Edward Yang's creative theme: the analysis of urban diseases and the questioning of the alienation of modern interpersonal relationships. The film accurately captures the ups and downs of daily urban life, tracking the wandering crowds in the maze-like streets and neon-lit modern buildings, exploring the fluctuations of modern people's inner emotions, and ultimately points out the symptoms that Taiwan's rapidly developing economy in the 1980s could not drive the weak mental state of urban people. As one of the representative works of the Taiwanese New Wave, the film not only received investment from Hou Hsiao-hsien, who was both the screenwriter and the male lead, by mortgaging his property, but was also one of the most controversial works of director Edward Yang.
Director: Edward Yang
This film continues Edward Yang's creative theme: the analysis of urban diseases and the questioning of the alienation of modern interpersonal relationships. The film accurately captures the ups and downs of daily urban life, tracking the wandering crowds in the maze-like streets and neon-lit modern buildings, exploring the fluctuations of modern people's inner emotions, and ultimately points out the symptoms that Taiwan's rapidly developing economy in the 1980s could not drive the weak mental state of urban people. As one of the representative works of the Taiwanese New Wave, the film not only received investment from Hou Hsiao-hsien, who was both the screenwriter and the male lead, by mortgaging his property, but was also one of the most controversial works of director Edward Yang.
⭐️《Ling Xun》A River Stifled ⭐️
Director: Bu Jingwei
Genre: Narrative
Country of production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 17 minutes
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In Northeast China, a young man who just got out of prison met a girl who wanted to become an Internet celebrity while having dinner with his father.
Have you ever wondered what the story of the person sitting next to you is when you are dining? In this short film, in a small restaurant in Northeast China, there is a young man who just got out of prison and his father, and a girl who wants to become an Internet celebrity. Among these extraordinary civilians, some eat and drink quietly, while others talk loudly about the past and the future. For a young man who has made a big mistake, what will his future be? Will the society accept him? Perhaps life is as bitter as the beer on the table, and as mixed as a table of delicious food.
Director: Bu Jingwei
Genre: Narrative
Country of production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 17 minutes
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In Northeast China, a young man who just got out of prison met a girl who wanted to become an Internet celebrity while having dinner with his father.
Have you ever wondered what the story of the person sitting next to you is when you are dining? In this short film, in a small restaurant in Northeast China, there is a young man who just got out of prison and his father, and a girl who wants to become an Internet celebrity. Among these extraordinary civilians, some eat and drink quietly, while others talk loudly about the past and the future. For a young man who has made a big mistake, what will his future be? Will the society accept him? Perhaps life is as bitter as the beer on the table, and as mixed as a table of delicious food.
2024 | Fallen Angels 4K
Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels
⭐️ Ash is Purest White ⭐️
Director: Jia Zhangke
The story begins in 2001 in Datong, Shanxi. Qiaoqiao and Binbin have been in love for many years. Qiaoqiao hopes to get married and live a stable life with Binbin, but Binbin, as a local boss, has his own loftier ambitions. In an accident, Binbin was plotted against and was in danger. Qiaoqiao stepped forward with Binbin's hidden pistol to save Binbin, but she was sentenced to five years in prison for illegal possession of a gun.
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Five years passed in a flash. After being released from prison, Qiaoqiao found that the whole world had changed dramatically. Qiaoqiao traveled through mountains and rivers to find Binbin's whereabouts, but Binbin had already lost his former edge and had a new girlfriend. Qiaoqiao, who was penniless, relied on her own wisdom to struggle and finally earned a place for herself.
Director: Jia Zhangke
The story begins in 2001 in Datong, Shanxi. Qiaoqiao and Binbin have been in love for many years. Qiaoqiao hopes to get married and live a stable life with Binbin, but Binbin, as a local boss, has his own loftier ambitions. In an accident, Binbin was plotted against and was in danger. Qiaoqiao stepped forward with Binbin's hidden pistol to save Binbin, but she was sentenced to five years in prison for illegal possession of a gun.
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Five years passed in a flash. After being released from prison, Qiaoqiao found that the whole world had changed dramatically. Qiaoqiao traveled through mountains and rivers to find Binbin's whereabouts, but Binbin had already lost his former edge and had a new girlfriend. Qiaoqiao, who was penniless, relied on her own wisdom to struggle and finally earned a place for herself.
Film Introduction | "Blowing Dreams Without Trace"
"Blowing Dreams Without Trace" Girl of Wind
Director: Yuan Nanqian
Type: Documentary
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 38 minutes
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She said that she didn't have any dreams before, but now she wants to become the best documentary director in sign language - a picture of contemporary youth woven by the life journey of a hearing-impaired girl who climbs modern buildings alone and a director who met her by chance.
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Yangyang, a lonely hearing-impaired girl, is keen on climbing high-rise buildings with her bare hands. She has no money and no power, and lives in a silent world with her vitality as free as the wind. The director met her by chance, and the two people's life journeys began to intertwine. Over the five years of filming, their conversations were about each other and themselves, and they gradually grew into friends who could visit each other's lives and talk about dreams at any time.
"Blowing Dreams Without Trace" Girl of Wind
Director: Yuan Nanqian
Type: Documentary
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 38 minutes
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She said that she didn't have any dreams before, but now she wants to become the best documentary director in sign language - a picture of contemporary youth woven by the life journey of a hearing-impaired girl who climbs modern buildings alone and a director who met her by chance.
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Yangyang, a lonely hearing-impaired girl, is keen on climbing high-rise buildings with her bare hands. She has no money and no power, and lives in a silent world with her vitality as free as the wind. The director met her by chance, and the two people's life journeys began to intertwine. Over the five years of filming, their conversations were about each other and themselves, and they gradually grew into friends who could visit each other's lives and talk about dreams at any time.
Cannes Award-winning Malay film 《Tiger Stripes》
At the beginning of the story, we meet 12-year-old Zafan, a rebellious and carefree girl. However, her body begins to undergo terrible changes, and she tries to deny and hide these changes in the hope of maintaining a normal life in school. As her friends exclude and attack Zafan, the plot gradually escalates and reaches a critical point, and the whole school is in a panic. The school's legend about a shadow hiding in the toilet exacerbates the atmosphere of fear, and a volunteer medical officer decides to exorcise the demon that is plaguing everyone. The medical officer soon discovers that Zafan may be the root of the problem and intends to perform an exorcism on her. Zafan's inner state is like a frightened tiger dragged out of its habitat, and she finally decides to show everyone her true nature. This may be a story about accepting yourself for who you are, but also about rebelling against social standards and expectations.
At the beginning of the story, we meet 12-year-old Zafan, a rebellious and carefree girl. However, her body begins to undergo terrible changes, and she tries to deny and hide these changes in the hope of maintaining a normal life in school. As her friends exclude and attack Zafan, the plot gradually escalates and reaches a critical point, and the whole school is in a panic. The school's legend about a shadow hiding in the toilet exacerbates the atmosphere of fear, and a volunteer medical officer decides to exorcise the demon that is plaguing everyone. The medical officer soon discovers that Zafan may be the root of the problem and intends to perform an exorcism on her. Zafan's inner state is like a frightened tiger dragged out of its habitat, and she finally decides to show everyone her true nature. This may be a story about accepting yourself for who you are, but also about rebelling against social standards and expectations.
Sunflower Girl
Director: Li Meijuan
Genre: Narrative
Country of production: United States
Language: Cantonese, English
Duration: 14 minutes
🎞️The undelivered lunch box is the tug-of-war between the restless youthful aspirations and family responsibilities of a Chinese American girl.
The story is inspired by the director's own experience growing up in New York, using a delicate and tender story to profile the two worlds of self-belief and family obligations. The film combines the director's family history - in the 1970s, her family ran a laundry in Brooklyn as Hong Kong immigrants - to explore the themes of identity and belonging, as well as the inner struggles of different cultural expectations. Unlike immigration themes that focus on suffering, this film presents the lives of Asian immigrants in a more gentle way, depicting the joy and contradictions of growing up from a female perspective, capturing the unique experience of this generation.
Director: Li Meijuan
Genre: Narrative
Country of production: United States
Language: Cantonese, English
Duration: 14 minutes
🎞️The undelivered lunch box is the tug-of-war between the restless youthful aspirations and family responsibilities of a Chinese American girl.
The story is inspired by the director's own experience growing up in New York, using a delicate and tender story to profile the two worlds of self-belief and family obligations. The film combines the director's family history - in the 1970s, her family ran a laundry in Brooklyn as Hong Kong immigrants - to explore the themes of identity and belonging, as well as the inner struggles of different cultural expectations. Unlike immigration themes that focus on suffering, this film presents the lives of Asian immigrants in a more gentle way, depicting the joy and contradictions of growing up from a female perspective, capturing the unique experience of this generation.
Chef Peng
Directors: Fabia Martin, Freddie Martin
Type: Documentary
Country of production: UK
Language: Mandarin, English
Duration: 8 minutes
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From Taiwan to London, cooking is the foundation of his presence in the UK, and food is the language he uses here. Over the past 50 years, as a unique Chinese food innovator, Chef Peng has constantly challenged people's established perceptions of Chinese food and British culture, and used his kitchen philosophy to make the restaurant "Hunan" one of the most distinctive food destinations in London.
The camera quietly lives in a corner of the kitchen, following Chef Peng to touch, smell, taste, and talk with diners to draw inspiration for cooking. He keeps shuttling between the dining table and the kitchen - just as the silent kitchen waiting for orders at the beginning of the film alternates with the boiling and boiling hot stir-fry scenes, the cooking scenes presented in this documentary are also his half-life.
——Co-Lead Curator Qi Wu
Directors: Fabia Martin, Freddie Martin
Type: Documentary
Country of production: UK
Language: Mandarin, English
Duration: 8 minutes
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From Taiwan to London, cooking is the foundation of his presence in the UK, and food is the language he uses here. Over the past 50 years, as a unique Chinese food innovator, Chef Peng has constantly challenged people's established perceptions of Chinese food and British culture, and used his kitchen philosophy to make the restaurant "Hunan" one of the most distinctive food destinations in London.
The camera quietly lives in a corner of the kitchen, following Chef Peng to touch, smell, taste, and talk with diners to draw inspiration for cooking. He keeps shuttling between the dining table and the kitchen - just as the silent kitchen waiting for orders at the beginning of the film alternates with the boiling and boiling hot stir-fry scenes, the cooking scenes presented in this documentary are also his half-life.
——Co-Lead Curator Qi Wu
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🇬🇧 UK Movie Recommendation: Empire of Light
Empire of Light premiered at this year's London Film Festival and will be released in the UK next year. Directed by Sam Mendes.
It tells a love story set in a beautiful old cinema in a seaside town in England in the 1980s, showing the emotional connection between people and the magic of movies.
Empire of Light premiered at this year's London Film Festival and will be released in the UK next year. Directed by Sam Mendes.
It tells a love story set in a beautiful old cinema in a seaside town in England in the 1980s, showing the emotional connection between people and the magic of movies.
Film Introduction | "In the Name of Duck"
⭐️In the Name of Duck ⭐️
Director: Arman
Genre: Experimental
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 7 minutes
🎞️There are three protagonists in the three-part story: the duck, the dancer and the waiter who met it.
What does a duck remind you of? A lively little animal, or food on the table? Both appear in this short film. The three-part short film starts with the birth of the duck, telling the story of how it "met" a dancer and a waiter after it grew up and became food. The dancer dances, the waiter serves; in this colorful world that has always been unequal, who is the host and who is the guest? The director does not use a single line of dialogue, but only relies on music and movement to construct these three thought-provoking chapters.
⭐️In the Name of Duck ⭐️
Director: Arman
Genre: Experimental
Country of Production: China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 7 minutes
🎞️There are three protagonists in the three-part story: the duck, the dancer and the waiter who met it.
What does a duck remind you of? A lively little animal, or food on the table? Both appear in this short film. The three-part short film starts with the birth of the duck, telling the story of how it "met" a dancer and a waiter after it grew up and became food. The dancer dances, the waiter serves; in this colorful world that has always been unequal, who is the host and who is the guest? The director does not use a single line of dialogue, but only relies on music and movement to construct these three thought-provoking chapters.
In memory of Cheng Pei-pei: Watch this British film Lilting
Lilting is a 2014 British feature film directed by Hong Khaou, a Cambodian-born Chinese whose short film Spring was selected for the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, and produced by Dominic Buchanan. The film premiered on the first day of the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014, and won the Cinematography Award at the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Lilting is a 2014 British feature film directed by Hong Khaou, a Cambodian-born Chinese whose short film Spring was selected for the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, and produced by Dominic Buchanan. The film premiered on the first day of the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014, and won the Cinematography Award at the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Happy birthday! Let's watch "Golden Leaves" together to celebrate?
"Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" 30th Anniversary Special Presentation
Director: Peter Chan
Year: 1994
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Region: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese Duration: 107 minutes
"Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" 30th Anniversary Special Presentation
Director: Peter Chan
Year: 1994
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Region: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese Duration: 107 minutes
Movie introduction | A Crying Pineapple
🎥A Crying Pineapple
Director: Liang Junjie
Genre: Drama
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 9 minutes
🎞️The crying pineapple is a lost child and irretrievable love.
The delicate and sincere performance, combined with the camera's clever composition and light and shadow, creates a realistic oppressive space. Even in the scene of the outdoor parking lot, the protagonist is visually trapped in the grid of the parking space. The unique food metaphor, the rotten pineapple is the depression of the lost child weighing on his heart. The imaginary baby crying, the sound of ants gnawing on the pineapple but with the sound of humans swallowing, deepens the meaning of this metaphor through the dislocated sound design.
🎥A Crying Pineapple
Director: Liang Junjie
Genre: Drama
Production area: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin
Duration: 9 minutes
🎞️The crying pineapple is a lost child and irretrievable love.
The delicate and sincere performance, combined with the camera's clever composition and light and shadow, creates a realistic oppressive space. Even in the scene of the outdoor parking lot, the protagonist is visually trapped in the grid of the parking space. The unique food metaphor, the rotten pineapple is the depression of the lost child weighing on his heart. The imaginary baby crying, the sound of ants gnawing on the pineapple but with the sound of humans swallowing, deepens the meaning of this metaphor through the dislocated sound design.
Best British Co-production of the Year "Something Substance"
2024 Cannes Main Competition Shortlisted Films -
Have you ever imagined a more refined version of yourself? Even a natural beauty cannot withstand the cruelty of time. A Hollywood star retired to a TV station to work as an aerobics lady, but the show was facing a cancellation. She took a gamble and accepted a revolutionary treatment. The price of the God-given anti-aging technique was to make a contract with the devil: to get a younger and more beautiful self, there was only one condition: to rotate with the new self every week. On the scale between aging and youth, the inherent ugliness of human nature will inevitably make it tilt out of control. The female revenge of "Vengeance" is fully upgraded. Director Coralie Farria frantically lashes out at the morbid values of today's female body consumption, counterattacking the two magic weapons of bloodthirstiness and lust, creating a new classic of body horror.
2024 Cannes Main Competition Shortlisted Films -
Have you ever imagined a more refined version of yourself? Even a natural beauty cannot withstand the cruelty of time. A Hollywood star retired to a TV station to work as an aerobics lady, but the show was facing a cancellation. She took a gamble and accepted a revolutionary treatment. The price of the God-given anti-aging technique was to make a contract with the devil: to get a younger and more beautiful self, there was only one condition: to rotate with the new self every week. On the scale between aging and youth, the inherent ugliness of human nature will inevitably make it tilt out of control. The female revenge of "Vengeance" is fully upgraded. Director Coralie Farria frantically lashes out at the morbid values of today's female body consumption, counterattacking the two magic weapons of bloodthirstiness and lust, creating a new classic of body horror.
British movie recommendation: 28 Days Later
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.
🔻The prosperous London turned into a dead city in just 28 days.
🔻The most typical low-cost and high-income type of work in the UK. The movie can be watched legally on major domestic platforms.
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.
🔻The prosperous London turned into a dead city in just 28 days.
🔻The most typical low-cost and high-income type of work in the UK. The movie can be watched legally on major domestic platforms.
British movie recommendation: A Hard Day's Night (1964)
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In the fall of 1963, in order to make some money from the popular Beatles, the American United Artists signed a contract with the Beatles to make a movie, with the goal of releasing the movie's soundtrack in the United States. They found Walter Shenson as the producer and Richard Lester as the director, and filmed the movie A Hard Day's Night in 1964.
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In the fall of 1963, in order to make some money from the popular Beatles, the American United Artists signed a contract with the Beatles to make a movie, with the goal of releasing the movie's soundtrack in the United States. They found Walter Shenson as the producer and Richard Lester as the director, and filmed the movie A Hard Day's Night in 1964.
British movie recommendation: "Time Traveler"
About Time (2013)
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An ordinary girl with her wholehearted passion, changed the life of an English gentleman. (c) written by UCFC
About Time (2013)
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An ordinary girl with her wholehearted passion, changed the life of an English gentleman. (c) written by UCFC