Working as a secretary for a legal office, Xiaofen records clients detailing the sordid aspects of their lives: divorce cases, medical malpractice suits, financial corruption and old-fashioned personal revenge. Xiaofen starts to question her own relationship with her boyfriend (Deng Gang), fresh out of prison and looking to get into trouble again with his gambling habit. While Xiaofen deals with the overwhelming social malaise surrounding her, rumors spread of a disaster at the local chemical plant, threatening to poison the entire city.

The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and dr...

The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Ho...

A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.

Two men -- one elderly, one in his twenties -- are touched by tragedies linked to a single source in...

Coming back to her broken family, pregnant writer Huang Xiaoyu and her French husband, Benjamin, fin...

Hong Kong, at the height of the protests. A young woman visits her father, whom she has not seen for...

Six-year old Lin resides in an isolated fishing village with her brother and their widowed mother. W...

Due to his history of theft in the past, Lin Kuan is falsely accused of stealing from his high schoo...

A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his fat...

If It’s Not Now, Then When? mostly takes place in an apartment inhabited by three members of a famil...

Xuan is a young man working in the film industry in Beijing. To make a documentary film that he want...

In a small village from the middle of Mexico, as a decaying mine's manager, a self-restrained 60 yea...

Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best...

The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with very l...

Burial Rites become the mise-en scene in which politicians, the media, a monk and an infuriated neig...

Three scenes about three couples with each portraying maybe the turning point of their relationship....

Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting,...

The movie follows two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their s...

Andy is a novelist who works from home. One day, a girl mysteriously appears in his toilet. She clai...

Fishermen couple Ah Shing and Mei-wah, having lived from boat to shore, stayed together for most of ...