Out of the Blue

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an unpredictable, peculiar and incredible journey.

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.

Set after the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, Huang moves to Taipei but becomes ensnared in quarantine and grapples with the loss of liberty. Meanwhile, Kim's pursuit of happiness leads her into a mess of forbidden love.

The lack of love from the father makes Xiao Man deeply insecure, while his mother does not care about him. Gradually, he grows a resistance to heterosexual relations. Xiao Man yearns for a strong arm, but the middle-aged man he loves is a man with a family. The middle-aged man leaves him, and Xiao Man's mother also leaves him for re-marriage.

A tiger's escape shatters the long silence between a father and his son, with suppressed love shining through the crack.

In the spring of 2017, after finishing the documentary Animal World, the independent filmmaker Ouyang Dong turned his camera to a foreign woman, Mary, played by an inflatable doll who was nearly drowned. However, in the process of filming Mary, Ouyang Dong ran into various difficulties. Moments of anger and helpless, he left the hospital with Marry. In the meantime, the police have spread their net very widely. A surprising climax awaits Ouyang Dong... The film was infiltrated with some dry humor in a plain way of narration, which certainly will catch the audience eyes on Chinese independent filmmaker from a peculiar angle.

In a remote mining village plagued by nightly blackouts, Tia, a teenage girl, expresses herself through Michael Jackson’s dance moves on TikTok—her only outlet in a world defined by restriction. When Wynne, a city woman, becomes her stepmother, their lives begin to intertwine in unexpected and fragile ways.

In traditional Chinese culture, red eggs symbolize fortune and happiness. On a day filled with significance, seven-year-old Aileen, a country girl, sets off for the city, carrying a red egg—a precious gift for the one she holds dearest. When her bike falters midway through her journey, a quirky yet kind delivery driver unexpectedly becomes her guardian on this adventure. This poignant tale captures the bittersweet journey of growth.

In "Where the Sun Shines Bright", an 18-year-old boy facing the uncertainty of adulthood finds his own story reflected in the lives of four children in the same village – parallel journeys of left-behind childhood shaped by resilience and the fragile brightness of growing up.

It is a confrontation between life and death.

The appearance of a girl on a bright sunny day gently changes the life of a young man.

Over the past eight years, a retired worker transformed herself into a female virtues guru, and she has influenced thousands of women in China. Why is the training of women's morality so popular in the Age of Feminism and Gender Equality? This documentary explores long-standing societal ideas around women, marriage and family that reflect traditions and expectations not only in China, but also around the world.