Those Left Behind

A young boy sleepwalks into a shrouded reality of murder and rape in a small fishing village, amidst the emerging political and cultural turbulence of 1970's China.

A state-owned company's boss, Luo Jianqun (Zhou Lijing), is overwhelmed by the beauty of a farm girl, Qin Yanmei (Jin Qiaoqiao). The two quickly fall in love. For a time, Luo leaves his family for Qin; but Qin covets Luo's status and money, and is determined to stay with him for a long time. Luo's life is disrupted: Qin calls the president of Luo's company, and at a birthday banquet for Luo, she forces him to abandon the table that's full of relatives and friends, for the two-person ding area Qin's set up for her and him alone. Qin's possessiveness only becomes stronger and stronger.

A physically challenged young woman dreams of winning medals and honors for her country and pushes her body to its limit.

Student film by Wang Xiaoshuai, about a director trying to get his film project realized.

Shanghai 1976 is a moving story that tells the tale of a forbidden love and of the loss of innocence in Shanghai, China, in the turbulent year 1976. Four young people come of age and fall in love against the backdrop of political and historical events. Their heritage reflects Shanghai's cosmopolitan history. Two Eurasian girls, sisters, meet and fall in love with two Chinese men. As their lives become more entangled, they find themselves ostracized. While the Great Cultural Revolution unravels around them, these four begin to dream new dreams, to reach for freedom and to nurture hope for a brighter future.

At that time when urban youth were going down to the countryside to join the agricultural production team and receive re-education from the peasants, Zhang Haibin and his best friend Lin Tianliang left school, left the familiar Beijing hutongs, and were taken by two Dongfeng trucks to the countryside. Among the fifty-some Beijing knowledge youth who came to join the agricultural production team with Zhang Haibin, Zhou Yuxin was his classmate, but Zhang Haibin had never managed to say a word to Zhou Yuxin. He just watched from afar, watching Zhou Yuxin's beautiful and delicate figure, unable to leave. The passionate youth, the innocent love, the bitter memories, and the piercing pain—believe that those faded memories will take the audience back to that era of intense passion and bitter pain. As the Soviet song "The Hawthorn Tree" plays its melodic tune, one can experience a different kind of life feeling.

Middle-aged Ma Zhongqi is the production manager of an advertising agency. He has separated from his hair-dresser wife, Jian Jia, and the two are planning to end their marriage of more than a decade. Jian Jia meets a strange boy who wears a wig, but wants to ask Jian Jia to do his hair. At first, Jian Jia thought he was playing a joke, but without hesitation, refused. The boy waited for her until she got off work; he told her that he had seen her in a magazine. Jian Jia saw that he had something [unspeakable?]. Jian Jia later learns that the boy is terminally ill, and he wants to ask Jian Jia to do his hair specifically for him because he wants to have good-looking hair and take an engagement photo with the girl he loves.

The first short film by Chinese sixth generation filmmaker Hu Xueyang.

Eighteen Springs (also known as Affair of Half a Lifetime) is a 2003 drama-romance TV series based on the novel of the same name by Chinese author Eileen Chang. The series stars Ruby Lin, Patrick Tam, Jiang Qinqin and Li Liqun. It had the most simultaneous broadcasts on China cable/satellite TVs during 2004. The series was filmed in Shanghai and Taiwan.