Living in the Garden

Buddha The Betrayer

Jinquan, a devoted temple guardian and spiritual medium, awoke to find his cherished Buddha gone one day. As he searched, he encountered a mysterious young man, who was suspected of the theft yet strangely attuned to the Buddha's essence. Now, a haunting thought took root in Jinquan's mind: Did the Buddha betray him? Facing his deepest fears, he must grapple with faith,betrayal,and his vulnerability.

The Last Jiangshi

In Chinese folklore, the corpse-herding rituals of Xiangxi gave birth to the myth of the jiangshi, or hopping vampire. In 1985, Mr. Vampire brought the jiangshi to the big screen, making it a cultural icon. Over thirty years later, as the genre fades into memory, The Last Jiangshi (original title: China’s Last Vampire) finds the only known jiangshi still existing in the modern world—Old Li.

The Returned and the Blessed

In southern China, the demolition of a small village went quite well. Two kids happened to get an abandoned wood-carved earth God. The story went on like a metaphor when the kids walked a long way, trying to return it although the temples around have no interest in this wood-carved earth God. When back home, the kids were told this wood-carved earth God was worth the price of a can of coke. Finally, with an innocent heart, they bury the wood-carved earth God into the ground, praying for a better future for the land they are going to live with.