"A dementia stricken elderly man is disturbed by a mysterious chirping sound in his flat."
A dementia stricken elderly man is disturbed by a mysterious chirping sound in his flat. With the emergence of a cricket, he finds himself in the forest where he finally embraces the shadows of his past.
Chen Tianxiang
Ah Xiang
A dementia stricken elderly man is disturbed by a mysterious chirping sound in his flat. With the emergence of a cricket, he finds himself in the forest where he finally embraces the shadows of his past.
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.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
A "Chinese noir full of sublimated homoeroticism" . The story of three brothers raising a little girl they found as a baby. These sworn brothers are not related by blood, but by a long-standing acquaintance and a serious crime they committed seven years ago. The movie features a homosexual love scene that was handled in a relatively straightforward manner.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”