Jiang Wenli

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

Li Er, a 17 year old girl who has great difficulty hearing out of her left ear, is rejected after confessing her love to a boy, Xu yi. Instead the boy is in love with Li Bala, a girl who is in fact in love with Zhang Yang. Li Er befriends Li Bala, who dies due to an accident. As the movie progresses, Li Er overcomes her hatred of Zhang Yang, whom she blamed for Li Bala's death.

Determined to pass down his art, the Final Master of Wing Chun is caught in a power struggle with malicious local officials and ultimately must choose between personal honor and his master’s dying wish.

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life.

The relationship between a teenage son and his mother becomes complicated when they take a secretive young woman into their home.

The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese guasha/scraping treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultral prejudice and false philanthropy.

Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love with each other by their misfortunes.

In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.

Mr. Zhao tells the story of a philandering doctor living in Shanghai. His infidelity gets the best of him, however, when his mistress Tian Jing (Chen Yinan) announces she is pregnant, while his wife learns of his affair but refuses to grant a divorce.

Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.

Love stories of students in a re-preparing school for college entrance exams.

Eric, a former football star and now coach for a Chinese league team, ends up in a small village after being falsely accused of corruption. A young boy saves him from near death in the desert and requests that in exchange he coaches the local team and takes them to the junior cup final. At first only preoccupied by saving his reputation, Eric slowly comes around and rediscovers his passion for football thanks to the young players.

A film by Li Ziyu.

After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning, Li Shaohong turns her attention to China’s urban middle class. Cao is a photographer, married to an opera singer and with an infant son, caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise. His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his ex-wife also bore him a son some months after their divorce – and when the boy turns up looking for his father. Nothing wildly dramatic, just believable people in believable situations. If the ending seems a touch forced, this is nevertheless a sign that ‘Fifth Generation’ cinema is changing and coming to terms with up-to-date realities.

Spanning decades, this heartfelt drama follows a mismatched couple as they weather family conflicts, heartbreak, and devastating loss.

This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.

The Story of Zheng Yang Gate

Jiang Lu works as a make-up artist for an acrobatics group. She's kind, beautiful and talented, but to everyone's bewilderment, still unmarried at the age of 35. Song Yu Sheng is the photographer of a publishing house whose wife, Xiao Yun, died in a motorcycle accident 6 years ago, leaving him a widower with 2 children, Zheng Zheng and Jun Jun. His former mother-in-law, Qian Shu Hua, repeatedly attempts to introduce him to potential romantic partners with the main intention of finding a good step-mother for her grandchildren, but Yu Sheng finds it difficult to feign interest. However, during a chance encounter with Jiang Lu at the phone kiosk outside her apartment building while trying to avoid yet another blind date set up by Shu Hua, sparks begin to fly.

Four close friends—Tan Ailin, Li Minglang, Mao Na, and Tao Chun—navigate their own love and relationship challenges. From Tan Ailin’s struggle with a reluctant partner to Li Minglang’s compromises for younger men, Mao Na’s transition from casual relationships to marriage, and Tao Chun’s pursuit of family life, they support each other in their search for happiness and fulfillment.

Wu Si tries to make a high budget independent film and gets into a great contradiction and confusion.

This Japanese-Chinese production based on a novel by Toyoko Yamazaki tells the story of Lu Yixin, a Japanese orphan left behind in Manchuria after Japan's defeat in World War II. Torn between his love for his Chinese adoptive parents and his love-hate relationship with his Japanese biological father, he navigates the turbulent waters of the Cultural Revolution.