Zhang Ninghao

In the Name of the Brother

Togo / 东乡

In 1945, Harbin has come under the rule of Japan's puppet state known as Manchukuo. Communist agent Song Zhuo Wen successfully infiltrates Harbin Secret Service where Guan Xue holds a post as the chief of special police.

Playing Go

One Ear

Cui Ye is an ordinary Go teacher whose life spirals into chaos after an accidental entanglement in a crime. As he gradually descends into illegality, his police officer brother, Cui Wei, relentlessly pursues him.

Why Try to Change Me Now

Sun Tianbo

In the 1990s, a series of murders rocks a run-down industrial city in north-eastern China.

A Stolen Life

Zhou Liang

In 2002, a serial murder case occurred in the seaside town of Dening. Gambler Sun Xingwang was killed, followed by Zhu Zhihong, deputy director of Donghu Market, and his brother Zhou Liang. The three murders were committed in the same way. Various suspicious evidence pointed to Jiang Siming, the sworn brother of Zhu Zhihong and Zhou Liang. When the police were closing in on Jiang Siming, he was attacked and hunted down. In a critical moment, the police took action and captured the real murderer. They thought the case could be closed, but the inside story was just revealed, and the fate storm of Jiang Siming and his wife Wu Yan swept in... In the seaside town of Fujian filled with incense, the murderer by the pillow, the lover in the crowd, and the fateful life waiting for redemption are hidden in the market.

Till Love Do Us Part

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.

Echoes of the Orient

At Sasaki Midori's concert, Takahashi Rin is suddenly proposed to by Chinese painter Zhao Buliang. Henceforth, everything becomes different.

Stars Await Us

Xiaowei

A man is released from prison and saved by his roommates after a suicide attempt. When he visits a bar and sees a Russian woman performing the classic song "Blue Train," he is inspired to go off in search of his ex-girlfriend.

Starfall

Zhang Yinglong, who had been working alone in Beijing, returned to his hometown to visit relatives and learned that due to logging and coal mining, the environment in his hometown had deteriorated from once being a place of abundant water and grass to now being covered in yellow sand. Despite the opposition of his relatives, he resigned from his job as a deputy general manager and sold his house to return to his hometown to fight the desert. After experiencing difficulties and perseverance, he has now become a "national model worker" with green trees lining the streets.

Guard of the Tree Spirit

Hai

In the south of Yunnan, there are mountains, rivers, ancient trees, and tea gardens. The simple beliefs of the local Bulang people are the basis for maintaining their homeland and the manifestation of their strength. A film based on the spiritual connotation of the Bulang people's reverence and protection of nature in the Bulang mountain village of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.

Journey of the Egret

Buliang Zhao

Buliang Zhao is a Chinese man living with his Japanese partner Rin Takahashi, an office worker. He works at a warehouse that sponsors his visa while he pursues his passion for art in the face of family demands for him to return home while Rin patiently weathers overbearing colleagues and her own family’s expectations over her settling down. Through these two characters, on the verge of parting due to the demands of others, the film explores the limits of personal freedom and desire. (Text by Jason Maher)