FICTION

If You Are The One (Fei Cheng Wu Rao)

Director FENG Xiaogang| 128min | 2008

Qin Fen, in his 40s, a funny, honest, single inventor, newly rich, is looking to settle down and start a family. He does this by going on an infinite procession of blind dates. Accidentally he met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They travelled to Hokkaido, tried to help Smiley cure her pain in heart, and both of them gradually found their true love and life redemption during the journey.

Wheat (Mai Tian)

Director HE Ping | 108min | 2009

In the era of Warring States in China, the Warlord of Zhou brings all the men in town to battle with the might Qin army, leaving his young wife Li and the women behind. No one ever returns until one day two deserters from the enemy camp, Xia and Zhe, came to town. In order to stay alive, they pretended to be from the friendly army lied about the war, claiming the Zhao army was victorious. The women in town welcomed them with open arms, except Li who kept her watchful eyes on these so-called heroes. When a group of ruthless bandits come to raid the town, it was up to Li and the two pretenders to find out the true meaning of heroism.

The Longest Night in Shanghai

Director ZHANG Yibai | 110min | 2007

Japanese makeup artist Mizushima Naoki is in Shanghai on a job when met a reckless taxi driver Lin Xi. After some language confusion, Naoki gets into the taxi, mistaking Lin Xi's insistent friendliness as an invitation for a free tour of Shanghai. Little does he know, Lin Xi is planning on taking this well-heeled foreigner on a very roundabout tour of Shanghai, with the meter running. As Naoki's worried colleagues set off in search for him, Lin Xi and Naoki slowly develop a bond that transcends their language gap.

The Matrimony

Director TENG Hua-Tao | 91min | 2007

In 1920's Shanghai, wealthy Junchu loses his fiancé in a freak accident and is coerced by his mother into marrying Sansan, a near stranger. Soon afterward, Sansan's body is inhabited by the devious ghost of Junchu's dead lover, sending her on a downward spiral of madness and murder.

Finding Shangri-la

Director Ismene Ting | 100min | 2008

A woman's magical journey to spiritual rejuvenation takes her on a quest to find a mountain, based on clues left by her deceased son. Renowned playwright and actress Ismene Ting has crafted a mesmerizing first film, featuring rising star Zhu Zhiying (Lust, Caution) in the lead role. Filmed on location in Taipei, Taiwan, and the mystical landscape of Yunnan, China, in the region known today as Shangri-La, Finding Shangri-La traces the story of Ji Ling, a bitter Taipei woman whose young son was killed by a hit-and-run driver who has escaped prosecution. Two years after her son has died, she finds a 'clue' left in his room that leads to a 'treasure hunt,' their favorite game. With her life disintegrating into obsession with justice and longing for her son, she follows the clue, and winds up in faraway Zhongdian, the legendary land of 'Shangri-La.'

Here begins a journey to regain her soul, and her power to love. MORE

One Foot Off the Ground

Director CHEN Daming | 100min | 2008

A comedy about losing your footing and regaining your balance, the film follows the trials and tribulations of a struggling Chinese opera troupe. After a performance in a rural town, the troupe is informed by its director that their sponsorship money has gone missing. Now left without funds, the troupe must disband, at least for a while until money can be raised. Each performer is forced to take on odd jobs to make ends meet, adding friction to their already bumpy marriages and friendships. Ma San, whose wife is desperate to leave China for a better life in France, attempts cock fighting with his prized rooster. Liu Bing opens a photo studio with the help of his in-laws, and Sihai sells stolen puppies while waiting for his wife Sumei, the troupe's diva, to return from seeking work in the south.

Waiting Alone

Director Dayyan ENG | 107min | 2005

Set in modern day Bejing, Waiting Alone is a coming-of-age story of Wen, an antique shop owner and aspiring author who has just met the girl of his dreams. Waiting Alone shows us a China rarely seen in cinema, a China that is contemporary, hip and vibrant.

The Equation of Love and Death

Director CAO Baopin | 96min | 2008

Li Mi, a female taxi driver who has been constantly searching for her missing boyfriend Fang Wen, encountered two strange men, Qiu Huogui who looks constipated and Qiu Shuitian who is looking for his girlfriend in the city. At the same time, a drug dealer called Ma Bing and his lady partner Ai Feifei are trying to make their last deal before embarking on a brand new life while a suicidal poet falls down on their car unexpectedly, witnessed by the two strange men in the taxi, who later have to hijack Li Mi to catch a flight...

Gun of Mercy (Wu Ke Zi Dan)

Director FENG Xiao | 92min | 2008

As the local rivers swell and the urban population is evacuated, a retired policeman escorting three dangerous convicts to another institution finds a simple transportation job complicated by the rapidly worsening natural disaster. The local riverbanks are about to burst, and in order to ensure that three prisoners don't face a watery demise, retired cop Lao Ma is asked to transport the men to safer surroundings. Among Lao Ma's charges is a convicted killer currently awaiting execution, a notorious embezzler rumoured to have hidden his fortune before serving his time, and a stone faced thief whose parole date is just on the horizon. When the waterlogged countryside roads prove impassable and the four men are forced to work together to make it through the night alive, the nervous lawman realizes that his gun is the only thing keeping him in charge, and he's only got five rounds of authority left.

The Knot (Yun Shui Yao)

Director LI Yin | 117min | 2006

They fell in love when Chen Qiushui was 20 and Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 2.28 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wan Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years pass by, Jindi followed Qiushui to Tibet and was killed in an avalanche. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued go pray for his return. Now Biyun lives in LA. Her niece travels to Tibet to retrace Qiushui's footsteps. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun can see Qiushui's final resting place...

The Warlords

Director Peter CHAN | 95min | 2007

In an age of famine and war in the middle of 19th century China, three men unite as blood brothers to initially lead 108 men against the ruling armies of their time, succeed and establishes peace. Pang (Jet Li), a general whose troops were slaughtered by the Kui army. He is befriended and becomes blood brothers with the leaders of a bandit army, Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). Pang also develops an attraction for Lian, Er Hu's wife who comforted him when he was at rock-bottom before joining the bandit army. Driven by the basic need for food to survive, the three increase their bandit army to 800, and they forge deals with rich lords for provisions and assistance from their armies in exchange for defeating their enemies. The three's bandit army does the fighting and dying, while the rich lords'armies secure victory in the final wave of attack.

Assembly (Ji Jie Hao)

Director FENG Xiaogang | 113 min | 2007

In 1948, during the Chinese Civil War, the Captain Gu Zidi from the People's Liberation Army was assigned with his forty-seven soldiers from the Nineth Company to defend a coal mine until they hear the assembly bugle. All the men died except Gu as the bugle was never heard. The forty-seven soldiers that died heroically are only considered missing and their actions were completely unknown by the high-command. After that Gu dedicated his entire life to restore the honor that belongs to his forty six men and their self-sacrifices.

The Banquet (Ye Yan)

Director FENG Xiaogang | 131 min | 2006

In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters as power struggle intensifies within the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Xiao Wan but his father takes her as Empress. Wu Luan's uncle murders the emperor, taking the throne and Empress, and sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Xiao Wan's coronation and dispatches Wu Luan to a distant land. He then calls for a midnight banquet on the 100th day of his rule. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Ministers and the Generals all have their own enemies they would like to finish off at the banquet.

Postman in Shangri-La

Director YU Zhong | 93min | 2007

An ordinary postman working in a remote area of the Chinese interior sets out on a most extraordinary mission in director YU Zhong's entry into the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival. A dedicated postal carrier, Wang Dahe spends most of his days weighed down by letters as he navigates treacherous mountain paths in order ensure that the mail reaches the remote villages of Muli in a timely fashion. The work may be exhausting, but Wang Dahe can always be counted upon to get the job done. Returning home after a particularly grueling day in the thin mountain air, Wang Dahe is approached by his boss to deliver three urgent letters: The first letter is a notification to a township to cease cutting trees, the second is an announcement to elderly cataract sufferers that they can now visit doctors in the nearby town, and the third is an acceptance letter informing a young girl that she has been admitted to college. While the first two letters pose Wang Dahe few problems, the frustrated mail carrier has a particularly hard time locating the young girl whose entire future could be dictated by the letter currently in his possession.

Four Little Shaolin Kongfu Stars

Director ZHU Zhaowei | 100 min | 2007

At the beginning of a new term, Shaolinxiongfeng Kung Fu School enrolls a group of new students. The story happens among four new students, Miao, Bing, Qiang and Hao. Miao is a girl. In her opinion, girls can be as capable as boys. That's why she comes to learn Kung Fu. Bing, a five-year-old boy, is the youngest among the four. He is crazy about Kung Fu film and dreams to be a Kung Fu star. Hao is an eightyear - old fat boy who is from a rich family and spoiled. His parents send him to the kung fu school for they think that he should temper his will in difficult circumstances. Coming from a very poor family in rural area, Qiang bears the burden of his family at a very young age, which makes him more mature. Four kids begin to live a new life after they enter Shaolinxiongfeng Kung Fu School. One morning, the idea of "plum blossom head stakes" comes to them when they see the monks of Shaolin Temple practicing Kung Fu accidentally. They begin to practice assiduously. Hao is afraid of losing, so he makes a deal with the rival in secret.

PK.COM.CN

Director XIAO JIANG / Fiction / 94min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2006

A medical student has to choose between the promising medical career and her passion of music.

Electric Shadows (Celluloid Dreamers)

Director XIAO JIANG / Fiction / 95min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2004

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies. He finds her diary - a screenplay of her life built around scenes from favorite films - and it sets off his imagination. Maybe they have more in common than a love of the movies.

How Is Your Fish Today?

Director GUO XIAOLU / Documentary / 83min / Digital BETACAM(PAL) / 2006

A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border.

Night Scene

Director CUI ZIEN / Fiction / 75min / Digital BETACAM(PAL) / 2004

Yangyang is a college student. By accident he found that his father is a homosexual. But later he would find himself felling in love with a boy.

The Old Testament

Director CUI ZIEN / Fiction / 75min / DVCAM / 2002

With there episodic tales addressing such issues as AIDS, homophobia and bisexuality, The Old Testament is framed by biblical references and a chorus singing each story's conclusion.

Purple Top

Director ZHANG ZHONGHUA / Fiction / 88min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2006

XiBulu (played by ZhangZhi) and his friends have been looking for a beautiful spinning top. But all theirs attempts to make a top were laughed every time. One day Xi makes a little top from his father's working tool finally. Unfortunately, it is expropriated by his teacher and lead him disasters. His teacher and good friend Milan (played by WangYi) who teachs them music has her own music dream, but she can't seek for it because of her predicament and her miserable marriage. Milan draws a purple top for Xi Bulu and it becomes their last contact as a souvenir. One day Xi stands in wind crying for Milan's leave but only finds the truck disappear in the end of the street...

Bei Yazi De Nanhai (Taking Father Home)

Director YING LIANG / Fiction / 101min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2005

A 17-year-old boy from a village in the province Sechuan leaves for the big city looking for his father, who left six years before and has not been heard of since. The fact that his mother still receives money from his father does nothing to tame his anger. He is certainly not looking for a warm reunion; it is unconcealed revenge that drives him. Totally lost and deserted, he roams the big city with his basket of ducks on his back. Independent films are often made on a very small budget, but the budget of debut film maker Ying Liang was so small that it can hardly be described as a budget. The crew consisted of friends and acquaintances, and they were all volunteers in front of the camera, too. Even the camera itself had to be borrowed. The result is a strikingly charming, tender yet poetic film that provides evidence of vision and a steady style.

An Zi

Director LEI XIAOBAO / Fiction / 99min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2006

An Zi, a villager, is cheated and in debt when he opens a restaurant in town. To repay the debt, he goes to the city to find his cousin for help. Unexpectedly his cousin is an gang master and had an affair with An Zi's wife Xiu Ying. After a series of misfortunes, An Zi is desperate and life has completely gong off track for him.

Mid-afternoon Barks

Director ZHANG YUEDONG / Fiction / 78min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2006

The visual style of this film is fluid and calm. Attention is placed on creating surprise, on humor and on complex, yet beautiful, emotions. The director does not use the concept of 'the absurd', because, in the context of this film, this concept is old fashioned and obscure. The way the three stories interrelate suggests an imagery which surpasses daily existence. The character's behavior in the film naturally expresses their attitudes and points of view under the given circumstances.

A Dumb Girl in The Snow-capped Mountain

Director HAN ZHIJUN / Fiction / 90min / 35mm / 2006

Two sisters in Lijiang are born to different fate. Unlike her older sister who is a gifted singer, He Xi is dumb. However after meeting Jack, a young man from Vienna, her life has been completely changed.

B-Boy

Director CUI KAI / Fiction / 121min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2007

In Beijing an street dancing competition is taking place. Two teams are competing against each other. The winner will represent China in the international tournament.

My Internship Life

Director / ZHANG XIAO / Fiction / 90min / 35mm / 2005

Ye Muzhu, a female graduate has her unique story of trying to fit into the society. Under the pressure of life, people do not act normally especially when facing money and power.

Red Banderole

Director SONG JIANGBO / Fiction / 93min / 35mm / 2004

Xiao Gang lost his parents when he was a baby. Dong Ni has always liked him since she was a little girl. Shan Shan is a worker in Liaohe Oil Field. Tian Hou is a manager of a bridal shop. He is pursuing Shan Shan. This is a love story of young persons.

The Only Sons

Director GAN XIAOER / Fiction / 102min / DVCAM / 2002

This is a story of a poor man, from selling his blood, to selling his kids and finally his wife. He loved then but fails to protect them. He ended his life in agony. Only than that he gained his dignity that he never has while alive.

Weed

Director WANG LIREN / Fiction / 99min / Digital BETACAM(PAL) / 2006

A shy young man tries to win the heart of a girl prostitute. The story, partially set in modern-day Beijing, leads to a tragic climax when the girl's former boyfriend turns up.

Winter Story

Director ZHU CHUANMING / Fiction / 104min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2007/+18 only

The story of a street girl and a man, set in the winter of Beijing. The man is an illegal clothing stall-keeper, which was shut by the police. The girl works in a brothel, which was also shut by the police. They meet in one occasion and become lovers. This is a live story of an unstable and twisted relationship between the two.

So Much Rice

Director LI HONGQI / Fiction / 78min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2005

Mao is a teacher who does not care much about his life. He left home while he was playing hide-and-seek with his girlfriend. He came to a place called Liucheng and stayed at his friend, Xiao He's house where he started a different life and experienced a rather absurd and bizarre affair with Xiao He and a girl. At the end he embarked on another journey with a bag of rice from a peculiar origin.

Raised From Dust

Director GAN XIAOER / Fiction / 102min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2007

Xiao-li is an orchestra member of the church located in a Chinese village, with a dying husband suffering from pneumosilicosis at the hospital, while their nine-year-old daughter named Sheng-yue leaves school for lacking of tuition fee. Everyday Xiao-li rehearses the Wedding March in the church, and there, a pair of Christians is celebrating their wedding this day. After the wedding, Xiao-li goes to the hospital as usual, but this time she is going to take her husband for home, giving up any treatments...

Little Red Flowers

Director ZHANG YUAN / Fiction / 92min / 35mm / 2006

A four-year-old boy, Qiang, is deposited in a Beijing kindergarten. Effectively orphaned, Qiang has difficulty acclimating to the school's regimen of how and when to eat, dress, wash his hands, and use the bathroom. The formation of good habits is rewarded with coveted little red flowers, but since Qiang can't yet dress himself and still wets his bed, he's unable to earn any. His frustration and defiance soon put him at odds with the head teacher, Mrs. Li Zhang is an eclectic, iconoclastic figure in Chinese cinema (as well as a Sundance alumnus with Beijing Bastards and I Love You).

Tales of Rain and Magic

Director SUN XIAORU / Fiction / 95min / Digital BETACAM (PAL) / 2006

'Tales of Rain and Magic' portrays a young girl's coming of age, and of the psychological and physiological changes that she encounters along the way to adulthood. With its stories of wind and water, rain and magic, love and loss, the film unfolds like a charming fairytale.

Making Love

Director HU Zongxi | 2007

Why is Shanghai so beautiful? It's because countless young men and women have dedicated their youth and passion to the city. As Shanghai continues to be the glamorous city it always has been, the young people grow older and become part of its history.

Give Me a Bed

Director WU Wei | 92min | 2007

Hongtao, a university law graduate comes from a rural area of China. He looks for work in the city but is unable to find a job. Hongtao meets Mrs. Ho who introduces him to her husband who is the boss of a real estate company. He takes up an offer of a job but is dismissed because he speaks out

against an injustice. Changed by this experience, Hongtao begins a new life in the metropolis.

Moonlight Melody

Director ZHANG Yaoyi | 61min | 2008

Luna is a student of an art academy and likes western art. Because of her difficult family environment and her boyfriend leaving, Luna has been diagnosed with a psychological problem. Her mother is an excellent Kunqu Opera performer and a traditional eastern lady. Luna falls

out with her and leaves home. She works hard to finish her graduation project, but never finds what she really wants. Searching for salvation, she experiences something extraordinary.

Postman in Shangri-la

Director YU Zhong | 90 min | 2008

Wang Dahe is an ordinary country postman in Muli County. Wang Yusheng has been sent a university admission notice, but as she lives in a remote rural area with no detailed address, Dahe has to find her. However as there is only a short time till the freshmen registration, he has to take a shortcut. He encounters countless difficulties and obstacles en route.

No Crocodile Tears

Director LU Jiangguang | 121min | 2008

Xiao Le, a boy who lives in the city, goes to his grandfather's country home for his summer holiday. As soon as he arrives, weird things start to happen: there seems to be a Yangtze crocodile in the local river. Asi, an animal smuggler from the city, overhears the story about the crocodiles from the villagers, and convinces Xiao Mao's father to hunt them for him. To protect the crocodiles, Xiao Le gathers together other boys and girls in the village to start a "war" against the animal smugglers.

Bird's Nest

Director NING Jingwu | 74min | 2008

A young boy of Miao, one of the Ethnic Minorities of China, has been living in the mountains and has never traveled from his home. He and his friends love birds. Curious about the Bird's Nest Stadium for the Olympics mentioned in his father's letter from Beijing, the boy tries to earn money to travel there by chopping wood to sell.

The Marine Friends

Director QIAN Xiaohong | 80min | 2006

Fang Xiaoqi has to live with his grandpa, a scholar in Polar Marine science, as his parents work in the Arctic Ocean. He is amazed by the large variety of marine animals. Because his father cannot come back from work to celebrate his birthday, Xiaoqi goes to a dolphin pool and weeps. Suddenly a miracle happens.