Crosscurrent

Two students travel across rural China looking for some meaning to their lives.

On 1949 October 1, the day of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Dali enters the city and is reorganized as the director of the public security police station. He finds that primary school teacher Feng Jingbo is full of doubts. With the high vigilance of a soldier and the sense of responsibility of a public security official, Dali insists on partnering with Feng and becomes his neighbor. He then spends his whole life carrying out a nearly four-decade pursuit without regrets.

A son, whose relationship with his mother is strained after his father’s disappearance, becomes acquainted with telephone dating service operator No. 23, bringing unexpected changes to him and his mother.

After failing to get into college, Lu Lin has to take up the same job as his father, a railway mechanic, when his dream is to work in the Air Force. Lu Lin takes it one day at a time and lives in constant fear of what the future will bring.

Chinese photographer Weicheng Hua meets the vagabond Zhighuo Sun in 2015 at an amusement park just outside Chongqing. Hua’s first film is an affectionate portrait of the drug-using, possibly psychotic, sensitive and always cheerful Sun, who moves through the amusement park like a kind of shaman, holding forth about mystical concepts such as “the principle of zero” and “understanding the self.” The central figure seems to fit perfectly into this odd environment.

Baiye is a small border town where trains run through each day, heading toward the other side. Now nearly deserted, silent and still, the town is a place people rarely return to once they leave. One day, a young woman arrives with ashes, on her way to visit a mother.

After rebirth, Mu Yunyao never did three things: be kind to others, leave a chance for evil, and believe in true feelings. She was sinister and reckless, who would rather turn the world upside down than stoop to compromise. However, there was always a cold-faced prince tailing her secretly, who wanted to marry and adore her.