Liang Cuishan

On an urban island in Shanghai, Yoyo starts secretly following Lan Tian. In a parallel world, Lan Tian is quietly observing Yoyo in the distance. Trapped in a twin-towered shopping complex, they experience two variations of encounters, as affections, desires and other feelings start to appear.

Thirty-year-old college lecturer Shu Qiao is about to marry her long-term boyfriend and fiancé, successful banker Hu. The future has been written for her. However, during a visiting scholar programme to Europe, Shu encounters theatre director Fan in Prague, with whom she falls hopelessly in love.

A Shanghai woman journeys alone to a rubber plantation in southwest China, where her late father was sent during the Cultural Revolution. As she searches for a mysterious woman, some strangers unexpectedly drift into her path.

凡夫俗女

Wen Yuwen, a cute and naive high school girl, loves Chinese far more than math. She tentatively steps into billiard halls, clothing stores and hotels — places of the adult world. She also begins to confront growing pains: relationships with the opposite sex, studying abroad, and her father’s infidelity. Confused yet brave at times, she embarks on a stumbling adventure of youth.

An elderly mother in her twilight years grows weary of her identity as a mother. She crosses paths with a troubled young man, and is also haunted by the ghost of her late husband. This sets off a wandering journey across Beijing, under the pretext of abandoning her cat. She lingers like a specter, awkwardly observing and faintly stepping into the distant, disconnected lives of her son, daughter-in-law and friends. Unforeseen incidents arise, their lives collide and intertwine, and amid this constant movement, she rediscovers the vital force of her true self.

A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when Lei brings a man home on NYE to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend's unexpected visit intertwined her with a real intimacy crisis.

After her return from abroad, sister Dongming plans a grand Western-style wedding for her younger brother Ajie. Yet their family brings home a rooster to ward off ill fortune for him, ruining all her arrangements. Their father's sole concern is the rooster, while their mother quietly settles an old score with Dongming over her past as a daughter. No one pays any heed to Ajie himself. On the wedding day, Ajie goes missing. Dongming then sets out to expose the absurdity of this family in her own way.

During a sudden downpour, a backpacker becomes stranded on an island. When she is offered shelter by a passing rickshaw driver, they share a fleeting yet profound moment of connection, overcoming the language barrier between them.