American Dreams in China
"No pain, no gain."
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
"No pain, no gain."
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
Huang Xiaoming
成冬青
Deng Chao
孟晓骏
Tong Dawei
王阳
Du Juan
苏梅
Tong Lei
许文
Liu Tianzuo
牛咏啸
Yang Yi
警察
Wang Zhener
良琴
Zhang Zimu
良琴(6岁)
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.