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Bleed for Past

The emergence of an underground drug trafficking ring plunges minor gang leader Old Dog and local crime boss Third Brother into a life-and-death crisis. A reckless young man named Dongzi becomes unwittingly entangled in the turmoil, rising to become Old Dog's most trusted lieutenant. The mysterious sudden death of gang patriarch Master Ge creates a power vacuum, triggering a bloody struggle as ruthless contenders battle for dominance while shadowy forces manipulate events from behind the scenes. Dongzi's true identity appears to conceal deeper complexities. In this maelstrom of gunfire and betrayal, the brotherhood between Old Dog and Dongzi - forged through shared survival - faces ultimate betrayal within a blood-soaked labyrinth of intrigue. An earth-shattering conspiracy unfolds. On the carnage-strewn battlefield where human nature undergoes ultimate trials, only the survivors will write the final chapter of this high-stakes gambit...

Bleed for Past

5.9 2025
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
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
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
Sun and Man

With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.

Sun and Man

NR 1980
Gu Touzhen: Strange Talk of Mid-Night

At the beginning of the Republic of China the remote town of Gulou in the North has been plagued by the mysterious disease - 'Skeleton Syndrome'. Patients suffer from speech and behavioral disorders, suffer from anorexia, and soon become living skeletons. In the town of Bones, a young girl Sanjian has been learning the art of hunting under her master, Sun Laohai, since she was young, and has developed an excellent archery skill. So the girl secretly vowed to hunt the notorious Black Beast for life as their mission, so often wandering in the nearby hazelnut forest to find the monster traces.

Gu Touzhen: Strange Talk of Mid-Night

NR 2022
The Fighting Youth

About a variety of very different personalities encountered six young men and women in work, love, with the most comic way to interpret today's "Fen Qing" the most real life. Movie entirely from the perspective of young people starting to describe their vision throughout the community. Among these young people, have just graduated from fresh human society, there are rebellious city cold man, there are diligent faithful dog male, female infatuation has insisted the dream, but also money first drink of worships money and women and every day Tyrant men and so on. When these different personalities, different experiences of people touched each other, naturally embarrassing thing again and again.

The Fighting Youth

2.0 2015
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