Tianzhen, a middle-aged housewife, lives in a mountain village in southern China. Tianzhen wishes to leave her hometown and explore the outside world, but her plans to depart have yet to materialize. The return of her son Guang from Shanghai begins to transform Tianzhen's hesitant reality into something magical, as reality, imagination, and dreams intertwine...
Xiang Shizhen
Shen Shiyu
Long Zezhi
Xie Lixun
He Qiang
Tianzhen, a middle-aged housewife, lives in a mountain village in southern China. Tianzhen wishes to leave her hometown and explore the outside world, but her plans to depart have yet to materialize. The return of her son Guang from Shanghai begins to transform Tianzhen's hesitant reality into something magical, as reality, imagination, and dreams intertwine...
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?
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
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.
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
An unrecognizable, charred corpse discovered in a remote mountain village in China connects three local stories.
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.
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.
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.
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.