Zhang Zhiyong

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.

During the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, an aging father attempts to maintain his family line. With all able bodied men are being forced into labor by the Japanese, he stops at nothing to ensure his daughter-in-law produces a male heir.

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.

Two robbers befriend with another robber, then decide to team up and robber people in a poor village in China.

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...

A short film by Jun Geng.

Every Dog Has His Day

Wang Wei, an intern about to go on a business trip, is illegally detained by a neighbour couple with a gangster. After a night of struggle, he finally escapes the control o the outlaws and regains his freedom.

As a marine biologist, Guan Zixuan, during a research on Brachycephalus salamander, Brachycephalus mutated and escaped. Before that, Guan Zixuan's father also disappeared because of researching the giant salamander. In order to find this mutant giant salamander and find his father, Guan Zixuan decided to set off to the deep sea and go to the deserted island.

Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.

Youth, the second work by the independent filmmaker Geng Jun, is a harsh slice of daily life in a part of China that usually doesn't make the headlines.

清亮的小溪

Qian was bent on experiencing love and fully committed to every relationship, but all the men she met were unreliable. Qian's best girlfriend, Tingting, also suffered in love, but as time goes by, Qian and Tingting gradually went on to different life trajectories…

Set in a frozen town where the middle-aged inhabitants are searching for identity through love.

Chasing A Shooting Star