Like Fireworks

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

The employees of a massage parlour share a close bond with each other as they all share a trait in common, they are all visually impaired.

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?

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.