Sijie Dai

Set in China in the 1980s or 1990s, the film tells the story of, Li Ming, a young orphan of Tangshan earthquake, who leaves to study at the home of a renowned botanist. A secretive man and commanding father, he lives on an island that he has transformed into a luxurious garden. Anxious to share this solitary life, his daughter, An, welcomes with joy the arrival of the female student. Soon their friendship develops into a sensual, but forbidden attraction... (wikipedia)

Based on the international best-seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970's during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. (Empire Pictures)

During the height of the 1966 Cultural Revolution, thirteen-year-old Tian Ben is sent to a remote mountain re-education camp after being caught playing a prohibited pop record. Subjected to hard labor and daily political indoctrination alongside older prisoners, he finds unexpected solace in shared camaraderie with a young pickpocket and a quiet monk while nursing a growing desire to escape.