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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.
The hotel room as a place where everyone is a stranger. A place that is yours for just a moment. A temporarily intimate space entered by a maid in order to clean it while, if possible, not leaving a trace of her visit. Each episode of Stranger is set in such a place, and each is captured in one long take. Weaving together a series of episodic stories – some humorous and absurd, some poignant and mysterious – that all unfold within a seemingly confined space, Stranger explores the idea of home while being away from it, and sheds light on the distinctive yet universal experiences of isolation and loneliness.
In southwest China, the ancient legend of the Poison Cat circulates. Hunter Tai has been feeling increasingly uneasy lately as he inexplicably connects the eerie cries in the forest and the strange occurrences in the village with his wife’s unusual behaviour. The age-old way of life he knows seems to be crumbling, echoing the prophecy in the legend.
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...
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Xiwen Cong presents the journey of a young woman who observes how, in her environment, emotional bonds always seem to be tinged with conflict and mutual aggression. In the midst of relationships marked by ambiguous gestures and latent violence, she seeks to understand whether affection can exist without harm.
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.
One night, Zhou Jun took a taxi. During his stay in the taxi, he told the driver about the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, wife and son. When the mystery was to be solved, the driver threw Zhou Jun into a bigger mystery.
Dreams can be an escape from reality. On a winter day, Xu Bo visits his junior high school language teacher, then goes downstairs to Yuzi's house to listen to her play the piano and smoke his first cigarette.Li Ke went to meet her elementary school classmate,whom she hadn't seen for years. During the time she spent together, Li Ke realized that Ke Ru was in a similar situation as her；Wang went to the city where Mei Yu lives, but Mei Yu did not make it to the meeting; Song Song was Wang's junior in college.Wang wanted to go to him to seek emotional solace, but unexpectedly encountered a "nightmare". The three main characters don't know each other but have some kind of emotional connection, a kind of reincarnation in the underworld.
In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her daughter into China's top universities through "college entrance exam immigration" change both of their destinies. However, this has put them into an even more precarious situation than when they started.
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.
It retains the reflection of the unique cultural atmosphere of southeast China in "Koali & Rice", whil at the same time the protagonist focuses on the elderly group again. It is a story of an old man who has been let down by the gods.
