Acting
Xu Gang (徐刚) is a Chinese actor.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
On a 1980s evening, the topmost clown-actor of the 20th century Sichuan opera, Qiu Fu passes away in an accident and half-unwillingly sets off for the Ghost City under the escort of two underworld officials. Along the way, he meets old friends. As they recall the past, a history of the living is conjured up.
Two robbers befriend with another robber, then decide to team up and robber people in a poor village in China.
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.
The Chinese New Year’s Eve of the north, the snowy night. An estranged father and son, a noisy and absurd family banquet, a journey home with no end. Speeding on a lonely and uninhabited highway, with no intention of breaking reality and escaping into a fantasy journey. The moment the fireworks exploded, all the flames were one, but the son found that the beginning of the journey was the end of everything.
A short film by Jun Geng.
