Country: China

Direction Ka Lam Chan · Steve Cheng

Cast Yibo Wang · Zhan Xiao · Ziyi Meng · Xuan Lu

Synopsis The pugilist world is ruled by the powerful Wen clan, which dominates over the smaller Lan, Jiang, Nie and Jin households. The carefree Wei Wuxian becomes fast friends with the righteous Lan Wangji, and during their adventures, the pair find...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis Over 9 hours long, the film consists of three parts, "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails." Tie Xi Qu was filmed over the course of two years between 1999 and 2001 and details the slow decline of Shenyang's industrial Tiexi district, an...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis In an isolated asylum live all year long fifty men. They spend their days locked in one floor. The men have little contact with the outside world, even with the medical team. Each of them has been committed for different...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jin Shuyuan · Cao Cuifen · He Caifei

Synopsis Raise the Red Lantern (1991) follows Songlian, a young woman in 1920s China, who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man. Moving into his vast estate, she navigates the rigid traditions and power struggles among the wives. Each night,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Synopsis Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's wife abandons him, and he finds himself working as a...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis Winter in China. A snow-covered city. Night is falling. Wrapped up in her red coat, a woman walks slowly through a district towards her apartment. The living room. Fengming sits down in her chair and remembers. Her memories take us...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Hao Zheng · Yuelin Zhao

Synopsis The Road Home (1999) is a poignant love story set in rural China. When his father dies, a man returns to his village to arrange the funeral. His elderly mother insists on carrying out a traditional burial, despite modern challenges....

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Cong Zhijun · Li Wei

Synopsis A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis A history of what truly went on in the Chinese "re-education" camps of the late 1950s. Premiere: Cannes Film Festival 2018.

Direction Haoling Li

Synopsis Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis.

Direction Hu Bo

Cast Zhang Yu · Peng Yuchang · Wang Uvin · Li Congxi

Synopsis In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Wei Minzhi · Zhang Huike · Tian Zhenda · Gao Enman

Synopsis In Not One Less (1999), a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, is tasked with teaching a rural Chinese class with the stern instruction to not lose any students. When one boy, Zhang Huike, leaves for the city to find work,...

Direction Li Ruijun

Cast Wu Renlin · Christina Hai · Guangrui Yang · Dengping Zhao

Synopsis Ma and Guiying lead lives that are similarly sheltered and difficult. He is a reticent farmer, the last of his family to remain unmarried; she is disabled and infertile, and long past what is considered to be marrying age in...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis Three sisters: ten-year-old Ying, six-year-old Zhen and four-year-old Fen are the youngest female members of a multi-generational farming family and expected to contribute to their family’s income. Wang Bing’s documentary is a warm and intimate portrait of a poor Chinese...

Direction Chen Xiaoqing

Cast Yang Chen

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Ai Liya · Du Jiang · Zhao Yanguozhang · Li Jingjing

Synopsis Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Direction Roberto F. Canuto · Xu Xiaoxi

Cast Sherry Ruihong Xia · Yinhui Wan · Wenfen Zuo · Luisa Shun Liu

Synopsis A true story of a naive Chinese girl who is forced to confront betrayal after she awakes in a remote forest covered in blood.

Direction Wu Tianming

Cast Chu Yuk · Chao Yim Yin · Zhang Riuyang · Zhao Zhigang

Synopsis The film is about a street performer named Wang who practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian as "The King of Masks". Seeking to pass his art to a grandson, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan...

Direction Lu Chuan

Cast Ye Liu · Gao Yuanyuan · Hideo Nakaizumi · Fan Wei

Synopsis City of Life and Death (2009) is a gripping historical drama set during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, a brutal chapter in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film portrays the harrowing experiences of Chinese civilians, soldiers, and a conflicted Japanese soldier...

Direction Gia Lee

Cast Zhao Lusi · Chen Zheyuan · Li Zeng · Victor Ma

Synopsis Sang Zhi falls in love with Duan Jia Xu, the boy who often comes to her house to play with her brother. Years after she joins the university in the city he now lives, and during their day-to-day interactions, they...