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Where Has Time Gone?

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.

Where Has Time Gone?

5.5 2017
The Man Who Reached Heaven

This film tells the story of the translator Wang Tiesheng. Before 1949, Wang graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai. He was a student with good morals, intelligence and health. He then served as an assistant professor in the Economics Department of Renmin University. However, he was labelled a “Rightist” in 1957 and was sent to a farm in Tianjin to undertake forced labour. There, he underwent extreme humiliating “reform” and suffered starvation. Later, on a bumpy road as he was being sent to be buried, he miraculously discovered that he was actually alive.

The Man Who Reached Heaven

NR 2012
One Day on Earth

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

One Day on Earth

7.5 2012
Summer Girlfriend

A beautiful girl who accidentally met a handsome and heart-warming girl. The two became inseparable best friends, but due to the misunderstandings of the people around them, all kinds of sadistic emotional stories happened. It explores youth friendship and the troubles of youth, and also pays attention to young people's attitude and status towards growth and life. The first half is sweet and the second half is sadistic, completely displaying the "core of youth" in front of the audience, showing a different kind of youth and life.

Summer Girlfriend

10.0 2016
Winter Is Hoped

What color represents 'Love'? Should it be the purest of colors--therefore, white? Or does everyone have their own color that signifies 'Love'? Is saying 'I Love You' merely three words often said without consideration, or is it a promise of commitment by which one should abide? A blizzard and a box of gifts change Dong's life. Safeguarding him with compassion is the person that he has grown up with, and the person he longs for, but every time their paths cross, the outcome is never the one for which they yearn. What does destiny hold for them?

Winter Is Hoped

NR 2013
CODA

To be a CODA (child of deaf adult), “Tien-Sheng” learnt to express love through body language and eye contact without speech. He was the bridge to communicate with the outer world for his family since young. After his father’s passing, his daily routine was to accompany his mother to the morning market and translate throughout including those embarrassing topics for a teenager. However, with the passage of Tien-Sheng’s puberty, he discovered his hearing is deteriorating. With the upcoming dance competition, he chose to escape from reality and dare not to confront with his mother. Just like the gradual deterioration of hearing and his father’s memorial ceremony, the lost will never return in life but the footprints of memories will be left behind.

CODA

NR 2019
Morning Princess

The film tells a motivational story of a disabled girl who pursuit her dreams. Gong Beibei, a grade 2 student studied in high school, was misunderstanded as a introverted, reticent freak. When she is alone she has super powers that can levitate and hold things. She likes to record her super-power experience through drawing comics. Due to her mother died in a car accident when she was young and the lack of motor function, she has physical defects which causes her inferiority and loneliness. Until one day she got a car crash, the door of youth gradually opened, which changes her life.

Morning Princess

5.0 2019
A Kite Confused Whereabouts

At midnight, the head of the criminal department who was watching the night near Xinwang Mansion arrested Bai Moyu, and suddenly saw a thief carrying a box and escaping from the Wang Mansion. Bai Moyu fought with the thief. During the process, Bai Moyu cut off a handful of hair of the thief, the thief fled in a hurry, and lost a treasure jar. Bai Mozhen opened the letter to the gate of the Wangfu Palace to understand the situation, but was met with sarcasm by Huangfu, the general manager of the palace. The next day the Emperor suddenly stated that he would let the Lord Wang Xin bring the wooden kite to see him three days later. The King Xin went to the storeroom to find out that the wooden kite was lost. He urgently invited Bai Moyu and Yang Yuanzhun to come to the investigation. If they could not find it, a disaster would come.

A Kite Confused Whereabouts

NR 2019