Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Three parents who have lost their children are involved with each other because of a deal; they have no soul in their eyes and hatred in their...

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate...

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.

Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A...

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful...

In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world....

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...

China's rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local...

Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu, portrays a mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green...

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls...

In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her...

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two...

When a drunken passenger causes taxi driver Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, he stops to help the victim. As no ambulance arrives he...

Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to...

Zuo Shouquan is the director of the morning paper in a north-eastern city. He has a daughter, Zuo Mingming, who lives with his ex-wife. The girl is...