Beautiful 2016

Jia Zhangke brings to this edition of the Beautiful series The Hedonists, an engaging drama about several unemployed Shanxi coalminers looking for work. In Somewhere In Kamakura, Nakata Hideo enlists Kawaka Kyoko, who immortalises the youngest sister Kyoko in Ozu's Tokyo Story, to play an 80-year-old who suddenly receives a letter from her first love. There is more than square dancing, but also life's pains and glories for the middle-aged women in Alec Su's documentary Dama Wang Who Lives On Happiness Avenue. Stanley Kwan casts an impassive eye on a film crew in a recording studio in One Day In Our Lives Of... with a diva, a young director, his lovelorn assistant...