Xiaoshuai Wang

Beijing: young men in packs, machismo, class divisions, violence, and indifference. Guei arrives from the country: toothbrushes, hotel foyers, and Qin, a rich neighbor in high heels, dazzle him. He gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it. A student, Jian, has it; for him, it's the key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, a girl he fancies... (imdb)

Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids. (imdb)

In the 1960's, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country... (imdb)

A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story. (imdb)

A divorced couple learns that the way to possibly save daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. Problem is: They're both already remarried. (imdb)

Wang Xiaoshuai's new film Drifters shows the conflict between Chinese traditions and the desire of its youth for a better way of life. Er Di, the film's Mandarin title, means "younger brother," and Hong Yunsheng (Duan Long) is a younger brother by birth and by social class. Like many of his generation, he risked his life to stowaway on an overcrowded boat headed to the U.S. in search of that indefinable something called the American Dream. (imdb)

Shot clandestinely, The Days is a portrait of a generation whose hopes and ideals were crushed by tanks and guns. It's not an easy film to sit through, as it's basically 75 minutes of people doing nothing, but the effort is rewarding and it's as close as you'll get to an anti-government Chinese film.

Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact of his paternal repeated absence on the life of his child. (imdb)

The daily life of a little boy in in a small chinese village during the last year of the cultural revolution.

A retired widow has her daily routine derailed when she starts receiving mysterious, anonymous phone calls. (TIFF)

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present. (imdb)

Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits. (imdb)

The first days of 2020’s lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.

Ten-year-old dreams of water pistol. Grandfather promises it as ghost after death. Hunt ensues, blurring dreams, reality, past, present. Portraits generations' love of rural China land.