Shufang Zhang

800 Chinese soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Re-imagination of a famous (bordering on legendary) episode from the battle of Shanghai: 800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japan’s Imperial Army - think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visually amazing gem which, in its own way, is also a last stand: of silent cinema, Shanghai style. (iffr)

In China, there lives more than 21 million gay men, and about 65% of them choose to marry ordinary women, in order to conceal their sex orientation, because of the family traditions, social pressure and other reasons they are facing. In order to win the custody of her 7-year-old son Tong in court, Lisa, a woman whose husband is actually a gay man, decided to gather evidence of her husband's infidelity with another man. Though she tried everything she could to keep her son from this family crisis, Lisa found the surprising fact that Tong knew everything...