The director herself, who returned from Japan to a provincial city in China where patriarchy remains strong, explores the state of marriage, childbirth, and homosexuality in the country. A serious and heartfelt video expression that uses performing art and animation to depict the "chains" of custom.
The director herself, who returned from Japan to a provincial city in China where patriarchy remains strong, explores the state of marriage, childbirth, and homosexuality in the country. A serious and heartfelt video expression that uses performing art and animation to depict the "chains" of custom.
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
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.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training, and the risk of execution if discovered, she must decide who she truly is— and what she’s willing to fight for.
Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.