China

Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengda’s brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliang’s attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows – for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengda’s wife) is also part of the picture.Read More »

Set in China’s underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows Qiao, a dancer who fires a few warning shots during a fight and then, after lying to protect her gangster lover Bin from a long prison sentence, ends up in jail herself. When she’s released five years later into a changed world, she goes in search of Bin, who has been mysteriously silent during her imprisonment…Read More »

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The story takes place in a peaceful and peaceful Hui village. Gu Bo is a simple young man who lives there. Because he suffered from a strange disease since childhood, Gu Bo has a very inferiority complex. He firmly believes that no girl will take a fancy to himself like this, so he has no hope for life or feelings. His family was very worried about Gu Bai’s thoughts and current situation, and arranged a blind date for him. Unexpectedly, it was a very beautiful girl named Ashiyan who was on the blind date with Gu Bai. Under the coercion and inducement of the two families, the two young people reluctantly prepared to get married. In fact, Asiyan also had her own secrets. She had a very loving ex boyfriend, but she didn’t know that a terrible car accident took his life. This brought a huge spiritual blow to Asiyan. To this day, she has not been able to come out of the memory of her ex-boyfriend.Read More »

Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.Read More »

Grain in Ear follows the plight of Cui (Liu Lianji), a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society. With a husband in jail and a son to support, she barely makes a living selling kimchi to workers along the side of a bleak, industrial road. A love affair with a fellow Chinese-Korean leads to tragic consequences as Cui struggles against the vulnerability of her position.Read More »

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.Read More »

Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.Read More »

Synopsis:
Cai, a housewife who seems to have lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During her daughter’s basketball matches, she hurts an elderly woman. This event turns out to be a catalyst for a life that is spinning out of control.Read More »

Ting is on the brink of marriage, but still wounded by her father’s departure twenty years earlier. Setting out in search of him and for a sense of resolution, she travels from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, moving through late-night fruit markets and piers soaked in blue light, as an impending summer typhoon grows near. Meeting a childhood friend and reconnecting over a bootleg CD, Ting delves into her family’s secrets and the emotional turmoil still sharply rooted in her life.Read More »