The Hammer and Sickle Are Sleeping

Wang Quan and Liu Jinglei are migrant workers drifting north, the Spring Festival is coming -- but they don't have the money to travel home for the New Year. In desperation, the two come up with a bad idea, and embroil themselves in a kidnapping plot.

Tie Jun, feigning a limp to pull rickshaw, breaks Hai Cheng's leg while ferrying his neighbour Qian Jin. Hai Cheng asks for a large sum of money, but since Tie Jun is penniless, he takes him home and turns to the bedridden Qian Jin for help. They agree that Hai Cheng stays with Qian Jin, and Tie Jun feeds them both till Hai Cheng recovers. Days bring conflicts, outbursts, and reconciliations as many tales of the "three lame men" unfold in three months...

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.

Fifteen year-old Xian goes to live with her father while her mother, a doctor, takes a job in Africa. Soon, she becomes fascinated by her father's stepdaughter, a swaggering, liberated and slightly melancholic young woman.

Under a tin-gray sky, in a hollowed out corner of northern China, a stranger arrives in town bearing magical soap—but smelling it will cost you. Nearby, a pair of unenthused cops try cracking a seemingly simple case. Or not. And you can forget religious solace; the only monk around is not what he seems.

Tong Zhi, a fourth-year veterinary student, has a crush on Gu Bin, a landscape student from Taipei. She never had the courage to confess, and for the past four years, she wrote all her feelings into unsent letters. With graduation approaching, an unexpected mailing makes Gu Bin misunderstand her intentions, making him think that she likes his good friend instead. As it turns out, she is not the only one who holds secrets and cannot confess. Will she succeed in confessing? A story spanning between two eras and the two cities of Guangzhou and Taipei kicks off.

A dark comedy follows a Siberian tiger, a dog, a forklift driver, a middle school teacher, a poet, a debt collector and a pregnant woman. Beneath the absurdities of an owner trying to avenge his dog and his pregnant wife is a story about reality.

In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.

Liu Jincai, a taxi driver, falls in love with unemployed Wu Li. Wu Li's parents ask 20 000 yuan to Liu's family to cover their daughter's fee for nurse school in a bigger city, in exchange of a promise of marriage just after graduation. Liu's parents firmly refuse. Despaired, Liu Jincai commits suicide with poison. During Jincai's funeral, beyond his buddies, his brother Liu Jinbao swears to exterminate Wu Li's whole family. Wu's family urgently moved away, Jinbao searches downtown on a motorbike with a knife...

A short film by Jun Geng.

A short film full of black humor, the story takes place in the small town of Hegang in the northeast -- the hometown of first-time filmmaker Jun Geng. A large group of young people wander the margins of society, living on the streets, hunkering down in Internet cafes; they have no money, no faith in the system.

A documentary feature by Jun Geng. Poet Zhang Rare once studied at the Beijing Qingmei Academy. Due to pressure he felt living in the city, he feelings of depression, he returned to his hometown and taught middle school. But his depression got worse and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia; he his job and, stayed home, and began to focus on writing his poetry.

A lonely wandering poet came to the place where the grapes were grown, where no one bought his poetry, but he met a girl. A discordant couple passes by the place where the grapes are planted, the man meets the gambler who loses himself, and the woman meets the poet on the way. The gambler leaves the place where the grapes are planted, and on the way he meets an opponent who catches him off guard, and his dignity loses out to an irrepressible pleasure...