The humid and lonely winter in Taipei still cannot even stop a person's footstep. Blurry illusions are the hidden rule for the relationships of modern people. Shu Yu is obsessed with scarlet red, and Ying Ru is cynical. They are both strolling down in this noisy city like an eel. They are on the way to discover themselves but also escaping from it.
Lin Ying-tung
Shu Yu
Monique Lee
Ying Ru
The humid and lonely winter in Taipei still cannot even stop a person's footstep. Blurry illusions are the hidden rule for the relationships of modern people. Shu Yu is obsessed with scarlet red, and Ying Ru is cynical. They are both strolling down in this noisy city like an eel. They are on the way to discover themselves but also escaping from it.
Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow villagers come to regard him as a clairvoyant. Can Shu genuinely see into the future? Is he actually just a basket case? Or is he perhaps more lucid than he seems, and pulling a fast one on everyone?
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 cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
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.
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.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.