Discoveries from China World Cinema

10-year-old Shi Tou (Stonehead), the son of a migrant laborer, grows up alone with his grandmother. Sharing a reward with a classmate or waiting until his father returns, obeying his teacher or protecting his friend - which one should he choose?

Mu Cheng He and Xue Tong finally tie the knot. Mu Cheng He experiences career crisis. His worries and extreme behaviors caused him to gradually drift apart with his wife Xue Tong. At the same time, sunshine boy Liu Qi tries to get closer to Xue Tong... ..Will Mu Cheng He be able to win back Xue Tong's heart? The lovebirds broke the silence. Will they reunite in Russia?

What feels like an ordinary weekend outing, paying a visit to grandpa, a young couple gets into a heated argument exposing their resentments, past lies, an old lover, a missed birthday, a possible divorce and a death. But have they told each other everything?

During the final months before Hong Kong's return to China, an ambitious young female reporter stumbles upon a murder scene.

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A rebellious young boy is sent to a temple for troubled teens and meets a mysterious creature by the lake while discovering the wild beast lurking in everyone’s heart.

A young lady comes to Lhasa alone for pilgrimage, but a "multicolored magical lobster" enshrined by other people has totally changed her plan. She made a decision to take the lobster home to the ocean, and this set her and the lobster on the journey cross half of China. During her journey, she comes cross many interesting characters and experiences. At the same time, memories, dreams, and hallucinations emerged intermittently. The journey to set the lobster free came to an end in an unexpected way. She finally reached the most secret place in her heart.

Four wraithlike figures of different ages and pasts, haunted by memory, drift along Nanjing's wintry riverbanks. They share an abandoned ruin where talk turns to poetry, painterly pauses, instrumental reveries and the unabashed group therapy of karaoke.

Special police brigade sniper Zhang Yuan and observer Hu Bing in a crackdown on armed robbers, hostage Li Xiang accidentally injured. In order to take better care of the injured and paralyzed Li Xiang, Zhang Yuan left the SWAT brigade and with the help of his girlfriend Su Qiu equipped Li Xiang with a brain-controlled drone and became a tacit partner with Li Xiang inside and outside. Three years later during a news investigation, the clues led Zhang Yuan to a factory. Unexpectedly, the plant concealed the production of ephedrine, the raw material for the drug manufacturing workshop, and former teammate Hu Bing became the head of this factory.

It tells the legendary story of Li Tian, craftsman from Liuyang, who invented firecrackers more than 1,300 years ago

The violent mother left a long-term psychological shadow on the girl, and even after her mother passed away, she couldn't let go for a long time. One day, she finally unexpectedly found a way out for reconciliation. This film is Wen Qi's directorial debut, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Female supporting role for "Blood Avalokitesvara". She, together with post-90s director Zheng Ziyi, borrows Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" to raise girls' painful questions about their original family and growth experience. In the film, the repeated appearance of mirrors and water extends the camera space, and scenes from different time and space interweave with the imagery of water, revealing a mother daughter relationship of love and hate.

Tong Song lost his legs in a car accident, An Ning, a technical consultant, and Liang Meng, a safety consultant, partner to start a bodyguard company. Unexpectedly, the first mission of the bodyguard team encounters many accidents.

The Public Security Bureau investigates an explosion at Chengdu Power Station, which is linked to deaths at St. Paul's Hospital.

A young teacher named Liu Yu gets a job in the family of Mr. Gu-he needs a mentor for his daughter Qing Ning. Qing Ning, however, clearly has some problems-she behaves strangely and curtains all the windows with thick fabric. And her stepmother may have something to do with it.

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emperor Tao Kuang is forced to take action that precipitates the 'Opium War'.

When you can do anything you want, in one's living room, one's bedroom, a pub, a classroom, a serious meeting place, what do you do? The current environment is suffocating, with no way to release the pressure that has built up. What should people be like? What kind of mood should we live in? If you don't want to do anything, will you fall into nothingness, and are those solemn and standardized forms reasonable? Until we get the answer, let's release it first.

Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.

Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.

Inspired by the real-life story of “filial youth” Chi Kailin, the film follows her childhood vow: “We lost Mom. We can’t lose Dad” driving her to save her disabled father and broken family from despair through unyielding love and community support.

Yang Zi and Huang Shengyi, Li Xingliang and Mai Lin, Liu Shuang and Ge Xi, three couples facing marital challenges, went to Inner Mongolia for an 18-day RV trip. They support each other, are honest with each other, and face problems together. At the end of the journey, the three couples had achieved self-growth and found a way to resolve their emotional difficulties.

Hong Kong horror.

Three love stories that take place in the modern 'internet age'.

The film mainly tells the story of Wu Qi, a Faqiu inheritor played by Julat Kutilai, and his close friend Wang Fugui. While searching for the whereabouts of their master, they accidentally clash with Lin Zhenzhen, the daughter of a warlord. Unexpectedly, all three fall into the scheme of the villain Hong Ling. After a negotiation, the three forces enter the tomb with their own agendas. Wu Qi uses the secret Faqiu techniques to locate the tomb and cleverly 破解 (break) the mechanisms, leading everyone to escape death in the tomb.

Grandmaster of Heaven is traditional name for immortal villain Tongtian Jiaozhu from Taoist legends. The Tang Dynasty emperor engages a famous detective, when he hears a political rumor about a plot to stage a coup and replace the sitting empress.

Steelworker Nangong Cheng is dying from an infected wound when he encounters Zhuang, a stranger with a similar affliction seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. Cheng, a disciple of a traditional martial-healing sect, must use his final strength to help him.

The film tells the story of the expedition team headed by Zoran (Xiao Bo) to find out the cause of his father's bizarre death, embarked on the road to find the legendary ship coffin, but accidentally awakened the bloodthirsty migratory locust and started a In the contest between life and death and human nature, the truth has gradually surfaced. (inf.news)

When a super typhoon strikes the city of a million people, only the heroic mayor can save the day.

The film tells the story of the big head son’s family who encountered difficulties in the process of the child’s growth; they were not afraid of anything and faced everything together. The mother hoped that their son will become a dragon.

When Lin Dalin's company loses clients to cheaper competitors, he accepts a large order with no profit margins in order to survive. But unpaid workers and rising wages risk a calamitous strike.

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A "Chinese" father reflects on the changing relationship of China and US during his trip to Beijing to retrieve his 3-year-old "American" daughter who has been stranded because of the recent "decoupling" of the two countries. Born in China and living in the American Midwest, filmmaker Yinan Wang attempts to unpack his own experience of how a transnational migrant family deals with the distress caused by identity, nationalism, and geopolitics.