"# Religion, # Southern Fujian, # I Ching"
Social & External
A day of Xiaoyang, the curator of a village church. Xiaoyang and her husband have just registered their marriage, but they cannot hold a wedding in the church for her husband is not a Christian. Before the wedding, she is waiting for her husband’s baptism.
One boy, one girl. One close space, one silent night. What is the relation between them? The great works in art history structure, influence their relations, and show us something. At the same time, the boy and the girl convey their experience and taste on these works. Usually, a boy and a girl will make love to end a scene or a film, but it didn’t happen. It seems that they spend the night clearly, but the tomorrow is still unknown.
A boy with horns gathers a group of Cosers, each armed with the same traditional woodworking tools, from the grocery store, the old cathedral, the gatehouse, the forest, the farmyard, the electric mahjong parlour, the old castle and so on. At midnight, with clumsy labor, they made a huge cross.
Andy is a novelist who works from home. One day, a girl mysteriously appears in his toilet. She claims to be from the future and needs his help. Her name is Pomegranate.
His father was sick, and the boy Xia Tong was always surrounded by strange dreams about girls while he was taking care of him. Grandma's answer made him disagree. To find out the truth, when the flame rose from the bottom of the river, he stepped on the train from the clouds.
An 8-year-old boy searching for fireworks on a Chinese New Year's Eve, after the firework ban is introduced in this southern Chinese town.
This crime drama follows a group of young men, who at face value just appear to be nasty thugs that above all else are up for a good fight. Trying desperately to make a name for themselves and become the type of gangsters people bow down to, Zheng cleverly takes the edge off the brutality by balancing it with some charmingly dry humour.
Poet Wolf (Lang) chose to starve himself to death, in a beautiful flower blossoming Spring. This is a poetic, aesthetic and brutal film that adapted from the true stoy of Poet Wo Fu's suicide.
The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her daughter to stop the film project. What they do not take into account is that Chen and her daughter lost contact long ago.
Part mournful meditation through documentary footage, part experimental narrative. This film looks at the life of the Chinese who have been displaced within their own society.
Six-year old Lin resides in an isolated fishing village with her brother and their widowed mother. When the family gets an opportunity to start a new life, Lin has a startling revelation. A melancholic tale inspired by real events.
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from their surroundings.
Hypothesis Voyager is a road trip film that weaves social theory with a trip to the west of the United States.The video opening with a gallery social scene through the viewfinder, point out the first-person view that associated with the spectator. Then the story turns into discovering the history of the first human shelter that held the social events. Through the shift of the way we see art, the narrator travels us to the gallery and the loop we all faced. To escape, the time froze, the artist takes a deep look into the story of volcano mt. Vesuvius and sees the crater from a historical and mythology perspective of how it formed. The artists' camera becomes the vehicle voyage the viewer through time and space. The narrator travels the audience with her emotions that served as the passages connect each chamber by making the tour and detours.
Liang Yan is a freelance writer living in Beijing. He went to a house church to experience the atmosphere of fellowship. A girl accidentally unmasked his behavior, and he became more and more interested in this girl. At the same time, he participated in a book launch for the poetess named Ma Yan. Ma Yan's poem reminded him of a former friend named ChunTian. The contact with ChunTian made Liang Yan immersed in the memories of the past. When he emerged from the surface of reality, he found that all these things were just a few words in the poem.
Tian Yuan and Da Bing were brothers who had been in contact for many years. They gradually alienated but at the same time fell in love with a girl who dances like a nightclub. In the entanglement of love and brotherhood, youth ends in a group fight for their love. . Love and hatred, like smoke, silk, and thread, became the past...
Fishermen couple Ah Shing and Mei-wah, having lived from boat to shore, stayed together for most of their lives. After their son grew up, they have different visions towards the rest of their days. Ah Shing insists on fishing amid the decline of the local fishing industry. Mei-wah works as a factory worker and wishes for a more stable life. Even when there are subtle and profound changes in their relationships due to the different views, their affections for each other never stopped and they still support each other. This story is based on the real-life experience of the director's parents, and they play their own character in the film.
Since 2007, the director of this film has initiated and participated in charity activities for the relief of the refugees in Tiananmen Square. The main line of the film is the director and Japanese friendly people who visited the refugees in Nanxiao Street, Beijing, where they lived in 2014, and tracked the scene of their livelihood on Tiananmen Square. The film was edited in combination with the old video materials shot by the director for eight years.
A man who was hiding for 7 years to avoid creditors has embarked on his journey home because of the death of his mother. On the way back home, the childhood memories stroke him constantly just like dreams. In search of a notebook full of poems written for his ex-wife, he went to the former factory to find an old friend. Elsewhere in the city, three senior students are talking about their future plans. All the wandering man under the bridge, the little boy in his childhood and the young senior students, imperceptibly but inexorably are linked together by the river, and the memory has been revived.....
An Ling is a successful writer of romance novels. What is unknown is that all of her novels were written by her deceased mother but published under her name. The publisher urged her to write her seventh novel, but she had no romantic relationship before and was not good at writing. When she was involved in a production, she met an actor, Zheng Yuan, and had an affair with him. An Ling got what she wanted, but she didn’t know how to handle the conflicting feelings she had deep inside. The story was inspired by something that happened in the intoxicatingly beautiful spring of 2016. This was my last film during my undergraduate years. I always wanted it to be completely engraved with my personal imprint and represent all my style preferences. So then I began to construct the story, a proud but timid woman with secrets in her heart and a group of hilarious mundane people, what would happen to them in a mountain forest surrounded by mist and fog…
This story happens in the southern part of Beijing. Lee, the motor-taxi driver's and his family live in a dilapidated tenement yard. His disobliging sister always asks him for the relocation of the tenement yard and urges her brother's family to repay the money. Kai's classmate, named Er Dong, a bad boy whose father is the lecherous principal, frames a case against Kai that he had stolen the monitor's cell phone. The teacher always looks upon on Kai, he denounces Kai without any investigation and gives a slap on Kai's face. Kai hit the teacher with a brick in great impulsion and the principal dismissed Kai. Because of this, Lee has to beg the principal for retraining the punishment on Kai, besides, Lee has to offer a bribe for his son. At last, grandpa passed away quietly, lee was arrested by the police because of the prostitute's tip-offs. Kai stands lonely on the rooftop of his dilapidated house, sees the blinding sunlight and hears the cockcrow......
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
An unrecognizable, charred corpse discovered in a remote mountain village in China connects three local stories.
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A high school student suffers from a strange amnesia, causing her memories to only last a week. After she befriends a new student, his kindness and persistence make her gradually open up.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
