Discoveries from China World Cinema

An aspiring actress must overcome many obstacles as she tries to achieve her dream. Standing in the shadows of her superstar sister, she tries to prove herself while dreaming of love.

A commercial short film co-presented by FIRST Film Festival and Vivo, revolves around the protagonist Zhuang Shu in director's previous TV mini-series "Why Try to Change Me Now", focusing on the northwestern small city of Qingcheng in the 1990s, telling the story of the unexpected encounter between two pairs of fathers and sons on the Spring Festival. This brief reunion made the children grow up a little. "Whether facing family responsibilities or facing the challenges of life, we are still led by the universal desire of 'dreaming'. Dreams are the instinct of existence and also guide us to our truest self." Director Zhang Dalei explained the meaning of the title.

When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a street-smart legal assistant, Sam might just save his job, find romance, and learn to appreciate the beauty and wonders of Shanghai.

Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (or Koxinga) was a Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683.

On Chen Shui's wedding night, his bride's kidnapped by the Jiaoren, people from Chinese mythology who produce pearls from tears. He sets sail to a small island in the South China Sea to find out the true reason for the Jiaoren's violence against humans.

An urban movie that integrates love, action, fantasy, suspense, and black humor. A traffic jam reveals the fate of a group of people: a drug dealer, Rashomon (Wu Zhenyu), Clockwork (Chen Zhipeng) and Yixiu (Wu Junyu).

Two Chinese university dropout audiophiles set out on a quest to decode a mysterious message received from the Moon, but quickly find themselves fighting against the mother of all conspiracy theories – the Illuminati.

The movie "Hong Kong Rescue" recounts the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese army and expelled millions of Hong Kong refugees. At the ...

After falling in love with Han Liren and giving birth to an "illegitimate child", Han Liren abandoned her and married a rich girl and cheated her out of the child. Huang Su then left the country, changed her name to Lin Luping, and became an actress. Sixteen years later, Huang Su was so popular that she was invited to perform in Shanghai. The young actor she worked with, Han Chen, was withdrawn and hated everyone, and everyone discriminated against him because he was an abandoned "illegitimate child". On stage, Han Chen played Lin Luping's son and was very successful. Later Lin Luping finds out that he turns out to be her biological son who was cheated away by Han Liren years ago. At this point, the theater owner Han Liren appears and wishes to get back together with Lin Luping, but is rejected by Lin Luping's mother and son.

Deng Xiaoyu and Hu Duoduo , who are idle on the university campus, dream of performing a gorgeous counterattack on the prom, but didn't want to cause ridiculous and embarrassing incident that caused a sensation in the whole school. Qiu Yingzi, the school's cute flower has been pursuing true love fo four years, unexpectedly receives a mysterious gift. Zhou You has been fighting an old teacher with his quirky spirit. On the eve of graduation he discovers shocking secret. In a blink of an eye, graduation is approaching, whether various mysteries could be revealed or not before it.

Xia Mu is a troubled child whose salvation comes in the form of Shu Yawang. When something terrible happens to her, he seeks revenge. Nothing is the same in their lives after that.

Two strangers' worlds collide after a Beijing traffic accident results in the husband of Yu Miao shooting and killing the girlfriend of young, penniless Xu Tian

During a dangerous rescue mission, Commander Tiejin and his troupe are locked in heated battle when he stops dead seeing none other than the brother he lost five years before, now fighting alongside the enemy.

Plagued by bulling from the Lu family, Lin Dong decides to enter the competition in Qingyang Town. By chance, he acquires a mysterious ancestral talisman and becomes a kung-fu master overnight. As the young man takes on the role of the Dragon Fist to fight off the bullies, he is also targeted by various forces when the secret of the Ancestral Talisman is leaked, and a battle between power and freedom ensues.

A grieving Chinese father travels to America to collect his daughter and stays to catch the killer.

5 years ago because of modeling school girls between the jealousy triggered by a prank, directly leading to one of the girls collapse disfigurement suicide, but was found in time, the life is saved, but the face is ruined, not only the face is ruined, but also ruined their best five years of youth, the same orphan brother, in order to restore his sister's self-confidence, sold his house to give his sister cosmetic surgery, until one day, the brother in the magazine to see the former The mastermind of the school prank is now enjoying the splendor of life, the brother angry, decided to take revenge, so he planned and organized a trip to shoot the event, the former participants of the prank were invited over, taking advantage of the typhoon, communication and transportation is not convenient, the two siblings to implement the vengeance plan, and finally the same death!

Classic romance with a documentary approach based on the life of a historical figure - Liu Rushi, courtesan and poet. She will get married with famous scholar Quian Qianyi and together with him will oversee the fall of the Ming dynasty.

The movie mainly tells the story of Er Lengzi and Xiao Wu coaxing Da Cong to take them to go abroad for fun, and encountering Dongxing Kun in the process of looking for boxes to trade, and frequent coincidences and oolong incidents.

The spear signifies political power, the arrow personal ambition. What happens when the two collide?

Qi Ying (Hu Huizhong ornaments) love singing since childhood, with a sweet and moving voice. Her lover Wang Shu (Zhou Shaodong) will become a teacher as a lifelong volunteer, and thus went to the mountains to support education, but unfortunately died in an accident. Got the news of his loved one's death, Qi Ying into sadness and pain can not extricate themselves. 　　Qi Ying often sings in the singing hall. Young entrepreneur Huang Zhizhong (Zhang Guozhu) is her loyal fan. Over time, Huang Zhizhong has gradually fallen in love with a gentle and tender Ying Ying. With Huang Zhizhong's companionship, Qi Ying gradually stepped out of the shadows of the past and regained his smile. However, at this juncture, Qi Ying found himself pregnant with Wang Shu flesh. Huang Zhizhong hope Qi Ying abortion, but Qi Ying is intended to give birth to this as if destined to belong to her children.

The issue of possible funeral reform by the Chinese government convinces an elderly woman to have her funeral ahead of time while she is still alive.

In the late Qing dynasty, foreigners are up to no good and the Qing government is weakening day by day. Under the cover of Eunuch Cao, the Guangzhou government colludes with gangs and foreigners, betrays the country to seek glory, and makes dirty money. When the humanitarian Huang Feihong learns about this, he petitions for the people and makes a scene at the government office. After a desperate struggle, he finally expels the foreign forces and eliminates the gangsters, punishing evil and promoting good, and protecting the family and the country!.

The triumphs and travails of six members of two single parent families in 19th century Yunnan.

The vacationing policeman stays at the "Five Incense" homestay, where there are also detective novelists, vagabonds, and a pianist played by Cao Enqi. With the death of the homestay owner and the waitress, the identities of all the people in the homestay are suddenly unclear. All are suspects, and all are detectives. The "Five Incense Homestay" is filled with mystery overnight.What unknown secrets are hidden behind everyone?Are their identities really as simple as they seem?Will everyone try their best to clear their own suspicion while becoming the cannon fodder of others?

A trickster and an 8-year-old girl are in constant conflict.

In Sichuan's Liangshan mountains, Yi children grow up between tradition and change. When a father returns from prison seeking redemption, he finds that his daughter dreams of basketball but is torn over her schooling, and his son longs to earn money. As summer ends and walnuts ripen, their separate journeys begin.

The United Nations Narcotics Control Organization and the Chinese and Burmese police jointly combat a drug trafficking organization headed by the Saka Group, which is attempting to sell drugs to the world through China.

After an accident, Daming can't remember what happened last night. Back home, he discovers in his closet the dead body of Gao Yan. Who killed this man hated by so many people included Daming himself?

A group of bright teenagers are recruited for a special college program for young geniuses only to find themselves socially awkward among their more normal peers.

A story between school kids and the teacher in a high school happened in 1985 China.

When the leading dancer of Lola is murdered in her dressing room on the very night of the premiere, terror looms over the dance troupe. With the murderer still at large, the coveted role of Lola passes to Tian, a talented but introverted dancer with a traumatic childhood. Suspicion fanned by jealousy soon leads to hostility and rejection from fellow dancers, while figments of childhood memories start haunting her every dream. Tian can only seek solace in the arms of her gaffer boyfriend Zhen. As the murderer strikes again, Tian begins to realize that all the slayings are somehow related to her. No sooner is she inextricably sucked into the curse of the role than she starts suspecting Zhen may actually be harboring a horrifying secret behind these murders and the troupe itself.

Cao Luyi, a B-scan doctor lost his job. He had no choice but to go to the “Dongshan Courtyard” sanatorium for medical services. Most of the patients in the sanatorium have dysgnosia, including a couple: Yingjun and Yanzi. Yanzi has been pregnant. As the days went by, Luyi got familiar with the noisy and chaotic life in sanatorium, even if he didn’t want to at the first place. Although the people here always made him angry and speechless, he gradually opened his heart to them. Yanzi’s pregnancy test showed that the fetus had encephalocele. For her, childbirth is very risky. Luyi suggested abortion. But Yingjun and Yanzi finally moved Luyi, whose father is also a dysgnosia patient. Luyi determined to help them. Who is the one to redeem or to be redeemed, it is not up to the intelligence. In the Dongshan courtyard, Luyi finally knows what love is.

Accused of poisoning her husband with pufferfish toxin, a woman stands trial as a shocking truth comes to light - he’s the same man who raped her six years ago.

This film tells of the romance between a talented violinist and interior designer. The pair get married almost immediately after meeting each other, though they soon find out that a passionate romance isn't enough to keep a marriage going.

Recently engaged lovers, Zhou Tong and Li Yi return from abroad to inherit Zhou Tong's father's home - The Purple House. When they arrive in Suzhou, as all is not what it seems. Haunted by the deaths of her father and faced with the ulterior motives of all who surround her, Zhou Tong must overcome many obstacles in her quest to rid herself of the eerie Purple House.

A late summer typhoon looms as Ting's wedding approaches. Urged on by her mother, Ting sets out from Guangzhou to Hong Kong to look for her father who has been absent for 20 years. On her trip, Ting's vague memories from the past come back to her. An unexpected encounter leads Ting to find out the truth of her family. She gets in touch with an old friend, Yuseng. They spend a night together at Yuseng's place, both feeling as if they were in a dream, searching for the lost time.

New chapter from Mojin Universe.

Wang Yiwan did not live up to his father's expectations, he was inactive and timid. After receiving an invitation from his first love girlfriend Lu Xiaoquan, he was going to go to to Thailand. When Wang withdrew the money, he encountered a small circle who lost his bank card. On the eve of the wedding, the two men were trapped in the silver by a gang of elder brothers at gunpoint, trapped in a wave of real and fake robbers.

A biographical documentary about Stephon Marbury and his time playing for the Chinese Basketball Association.

"Wheat," is a historical action drama about the women left behind when their men have gone off to war -- and the lies they are told to keep them from knowing the awful truth.

Chinese fantasy suspense detective film directed by Roy Chow

After trying and failing to seduce her teacher, 16-year-old Alex runs away from her boarding school. Trying to seek out the biological father her mother has always kept hidden from her.

New fantastic adventure about the judicial investigator Di Ren Jie. This time he investigates the strangest event: A grave robber who opened the cursed coffin with the golden dragon emblem and turned into a zombie.

Prince, a corgi puppy who is raise up by one of the Hong Kong most famous model called Clara Baby along with her partner Zhou, whose one of the ‘Tu Hao＂ in China (＂Tu Hao＂ meaning rich without class). They walks into the prosperity of Hong Kong and during their journey, Prince go through the ups and the downs, the poor and the rich environments, witnessing the living in Hong Kong.At the beauty contest at the charity event, Zhou purposely stops Prince from winning the competition and in the end Prince lost the game and at some reasons he has let Clara Baby down which leads Prince Life from heaven to hell.In a Hungry and cold cozy night after being left alone and abandoned in the streets, Prince met a girl named Zhong Jiaqi who’s new immigrants. She discovered Prince was left weak and to save Prince, she immediately carried Prince to the vet. Prince was so grateful for what Jiaqi has done and from then on prince follows Jiaqi wherever she goes...

By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsman" on March 24 at the first national 4A-class tourist destination Zhejiang Xiandu boot. Joe Chen unassailable modeling exposure, following Wallace (Linghu), Yuan Shanshan (Ren Yingying), such as modeling exposure, the highly anticipated and controversial Joe Chen (Swordsman) modeling has finally surfaced. In addition, Leung Kar Yan (Feng Qingyang), Han Dong (Tian Boguang), Lv Jiarong (Blue Phoenix), Zhang Tianyang (total no Shi) Dingzhuang Zhao also be exposed April 5

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.

A struggling pastry chef inherits a haunted shop, uncovering centuries of culinary curses and ghostly secrets while facing a moral dilemma: sacrifice innocent lives to perfect her craft, destroy the haunted legacy, or embrace the spirits' twisted pact with the living.

Sima Nan leaves behind a successful business career to pursue justice. Armed with exceptional investigative skills and a steadfast commitment to fairness, she takes on cases regardless of the victim's status, leading her team to uncover the truth and seek justice for the dead.

Li Tang Zhen is a 40-year-old single woman who lives with her niece and nephew whom she has been taking care of from their childhood after her brother got remarried. Although she used to write novels using her pen name Xiao Baihe, she supports them by working at a supermarket. One day, out of curiosity, she plays an online game and meets college student Xihao Jihan, a fellow player. They become close over a period of time and things start to get complicated when Jihan wants to meet Bai He in real life.

Renowned “trouble shooter” Yi Ran Yingjun is approached by Master Luo, who seeks his help after being falsely accused over a medicinal liniment. Desperate to clear her brother’s name, Master Luo’s sisters, Shuangshuang and Yingying, secretly enter a high-stakes beauty contest offering a massive cash prize.

Seventeen-year-old Su Fan arrives at the Anti-Japanese Military Academy’s First Branch, traveling from Longyan, Fujian, to the heart of the Yimeng Mountains. Just a day after her arrival, she faces a massive surprise attack by thousands of Japanese soldiers in an "iron wall encirclement." Through the intense breakout battle, Su Fan undergoes a transformative journey, evolving into a true warrior.

Teenage Dazhi because the network operating gifted, became civilian agents. Meng Xiaoling Xianpinaifu childhood orphanage, follow rich second Duha gold to Italy a shopping spree, spending billions of dollars you want to buy gold Duha Expo Street, but vehemently opposed by the local people. Linda premeditated gang sets out the Duchenne property use password setup, collect money to hire a hacker, Dazhi to recover Ling, Tong Fu cracked major exotic.

The Chinese medical drama-thriller “Sentence Me Guilty” gives too much away in the early running and has nowhere special to go after that. Centered on a female doctor framed for highly unethical behavior in the wake of her young daughter’s death, the pic has some intriguing elements but generates little tension and doesn’t deliver the emotional clout auds might reasonably expect from a tale involving a grieving mother.

Set during the turbulent Republic of China era, forensic pathologist Fang Tianyi ventures into the forests of Northeast China to uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious murders.

Beijing, the present day. Tang Weiwei (Li Bingbing) is a well-educated, high-earning career woman who works as sales director for an image design company. Now 32, she has had only one love affair in her life, which lasted from the age of 18 to 25, and since then she has been very, very single, devoted to her career. Pragmatically deciding it is time to find a husband, her best friend Jin Xiaoling (Xu Jianing) arranges some blind dates, all of which turn out to be useless.