Qiu Yang

40-year-old housewife Cai has lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During one of her daughter’s basketball matches, she inadvertently injures an elderly woman. This seemingly trivial event is a catalyst for a life spinning out of control, as past events resurface while she moves into an unknown future. Director Qiu Yang follows a series of multi-awarded shorts with his debut feature, a mesmerizing and intimate drama about a woman forced to confront the wreckage of her life and her longing for change?

Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.

One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.

A teenager resorts to desperate measures in her efforts to quit her school's aerobic dance team and assert her independence.

In a nameless small Chinese city, a regular mother tries to find her missing daughter, in this gentle night.

More than twenty years ago, Dazhang along with his three brothers came to Guangdong to work in a local quartz powder factory. However, a few years later, Dazhang was diagnosed with advanced staged pneumoconiosis. Returning to his hometown, the pneumoconiosis was gradually killing him every single day. The entire family was stuck in this seemingly endless suffering, while his children were still confused about what happened to their father.

In a dark space, French performance artist Olivier de Sagazan enters as a visibly exhausted man, with tangible dismay. He sits down to rest, starting a mysterious ritual.

Reality and expectation collide as Mona delves into her past and prepares to meet her estranged Iranian father.