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Lethal Crazy Flower

When the Japanese invaded China in 1931, the traitor Zhang Wenlin defected to the enemy and betrayed his country. Zheng Yi and other righteous men fought for the traitor in blood, but ended in failure, taking Zhang Lihua, Zhang Wenlin's daughter, with them. Fourteen years later, on the eve of the Japanese defeat. Zhang Wenlin is on tenterhooks and wants to move the looted relics and treasures to Switzerland. Zheng Yi, a guerrilla leader of the Resistance, and Zhang Lihua, a sniper, are ordered by their superiors to go down to the mountains to assassinate Zhang Wenlin and the Japanese commander to stop the flow of relics and treasures.

Lethal Crazy Flower

NR 2023
Hero

The background of "Hero" is set in 2020: a sudden disaster that disrupted everyone's lives. When society face unemployment when families fall apart, when lovers are separated, when death is approaching quietly, and when a peaceful life suddenly undergoes unexpected changes, how will women respond? What are the vital and irreplaceable roles that men play in women’s lives and growth? The three female directors Zhang Aijia, Li Shaohong and Chen Chong used their unique female perspectives to explore and show people's plights and struggles in family, career, and love in special times.

Hero

4.5 2022
Dream of Loulan

2000 years ago Loulan, a famous ancient country on China's Silk Road, disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a mystery that was difficult to solve for a thousand years. In the 1930s, archaeologist Wen Xiaochen led an archaeological team from Beiping to investigate the Western Regions again in order to explore the traces of Loulan. One day, Professor Wen and Japanese scholar An Teng discovered a wooden slip with clues about the cemetery of Mrs. Angui of Loulan Wang. Their actions have been watched by Ma Zhankui, the leader of the desert bandit "Black Wind". Ma Zeng was driven out of the archaeological team by Professor Wen for robbing the tomb.

Dream of Loulan

7.0 1991
Crazy Racing

Sloan is a teenager who is passionate about racing cars. Doug, his dad, doesn't like the idea of his son becoming a race car driver. To avoid disappointing his father, Sloan hides his passion and focuses on what is expected of him: his studies and helping run the family business. He does have a crush on his classmate Angela. To impress her, he sneaks out and takes her on an adventure in his dad's ice cream van, during which they get into an accident and the van is badly damaged. Luckily, Angela escapes with only a few bruises, but Sloan ends up with a mild concussion and new ability to predict certain situations before they happen. Angela's Uncle Mitch is able to repair the van; he also teaches Sloan a thing or two about driving. They were once racing partners. Doug was the number one racer until he was set up by Scar, another driver who still runs his own race team. Sloan decides that he will do whatever it takes to win back a title that rightfully belongs to his family.

Crazy Racing

6.0 2021
Winter with Trees and Summer with Snow

This film tells the love story of the rich second-generation Qiao Jiamu, who is dedicated to self-employment, and the terminally ill female tenant Lan Xue. The two gradually change from hating each other to cherishing each other. Under the infection of Lan Xue, Qiao Jiamu became mature and stable from being childish at the beginning, acting impulsively to protecting his lover and assuming family responsibilities, and finally realized the true meaning of life and love.

Winter with Trees and Summer with Snow

NR 2019
Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest has five parts. The series was finished in 2007 and shown as whole in the Venice Biennale the same year. Yang Fudong uses myths, individual memories and experiences as means to study identity and how it may be formed. In his films the spectator can sense the contradictions in the present and past China. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part 1, was filmed on the Yellow Mountain. The mountain has a significant status in the traditional Chinese painting. The scenery, the not so clear motives of each character in the film combined with the music creates an almost poetic atmosphere.

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

NR 2003
The Young Mistress' Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ruined because of a misplaced fan, is saved by the social butterfly who turns out to be …Unlike typical Chinese scripts on parental love, the understated familial love in the original play is aligned with Li's preference for the undramatic. Motherly love is portrayed indirectly while emotions run strong yet subdued in the film. Poking fun at social culture of the times, this is Li's earliest extant feature film in a modern setting and a showcase of his modernistic and crisp directorial approach.

The Young Mistress' Fan

7.0 1939
The Legend of Hammer

In the distant future, the earth is affected by solar storms, the earth's core begins to melt, and then global volcanoes erupt. In order to survive, the forces led by Daoba and Medusa are fighting for survival resources, and they continue to wage wars. Cui Fulai, a villager in Bagou Village, was forced to be involved in the struggle between the two parties because of the emergence of alien energy. Cui Fulai finally awakened the extraterrestrial energy in her body. Can he defeat the evil forces and protect the local peace?

The Legend of Hammer

NR 2020
Women 50 Minutes

A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, remote and developing areas in southwest China, and metropolitan cities like Beijing from 2000 to 2004 to document the social changes in contemporary China. The director sympathetically and erotically represents a variety of women, including women as laborers, women as prayers, women in the ground, women in marriage, and women who lie on the funeral pyre with their dead husbands. Her camera juxtaposes the mountains and rivers in old times, the commercialized handicrafts as exposition, the capital exploitation of the elders’ living space, and the erotic freedom of the young people in a changing city.

Women 50 Minutes

9.0 2007