Passiveness

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.

MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.

A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey together.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

A high school student suffers from a strange amnesia, causing her memories to only last a week. After she befriends a new student, his kindness and persistence make her gradually open up.

Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats escalate into violence when Bobby thinks Stacy has stepped out of line. Soon she is walking on egg shells and living in fear. Having seen the tell-tale bruises, Stacy's best friend convinces her to break things off with Bobby-but in a moment of weakness, Stacy goes to meet him. It will be the last time she is seen alive.

Lu Bin, a taciturn young man who has recently been released from a juvenile detention centre, is assigned to learn cooking at a culinary school. On his third day under the instruction of the head chef Ms. Li, a sum of money disappears from the school office. The teachers at the school turn their suspicion to Lu Bin. While Ms. Li is a strict teacher to Lu Bin, she also sympathizes with him. If Lu Bin is identified as a thief, he will be expelled from the school. Two teachers decide to investigate further, and Ms. Li is forced to face her suspicion of Lu Bin, along with another unexpected secret.

Cheng Sanhe, the first "Kanu" who successfully filed for bankruptcy in Taiwan, went from being inexplicably indebted at the beginning to realizing that he had already owed millions of debts. The bank's collection and the finance company used threats and intimidation to collect debts. Sanhe has since fallen into the hell of "using cards to raise cards". Taiwan’s first "card god" Yang Huiru, who successfully profited from banks with bonus points, used the loopholes in bank bonuses to successfully connect relatives and friends to purchase tickets or shopping station goods by swiping cards, and then use online auctions to earn the difference. Earning millions in the bank, the bank stopped using credit cards. Yang Huiru, who has also experienced personal pain, persuaded the card slaves to face reality: "Hurry up and cut off the card! Because the interest is too heavy, don’t think about borrowing another cash card to pay off the card debt. It’s getting deeper and deeper."

Due to his history of theft in the past, Lin Kuan is falsely accused of stealing from his high school classmate. To prove his innocence, Lin enlists his friend Xiao Bing to make a plan that will clear his name. However, heir seemingly perfect plan takes a turn that pushes Lin to a dangerous edge.

A young girl Pui and her father live together leaning on each other for support, but they still feel lonely and insecure. At the same time, the young girl is haunted by the death of her mother. After small accidents, she magically starts to walks into an Another World over and over again, where memories and realities intertwined, but she has no idea whether it’s a dreamworld, or a ghost land.

The story takes place between a young couple who is about to get married. The woman misread the size and ordered a huge wedding photo frame, which led to an interesting dispute between the two on the way to move the frame home.

An Ling is a successful writer of romance novels. What is unknown is that all of her novels were written by her deceased mother but published under her name. The publisher urged her to write her seventh novel, but she had no romantic relationship before and was not good at writing. When she was involved in a production, she met an actor, Zheng Yuan, and had an affair with him. An Ling got what she wanted, but she didn’t know how to handle the conflicting feelings she had deep inside. The story was inspired by something that happened in the intoxicatingly beautiful spring of 2016. This was my last film during my undergraduate years. I always wanted it to be completely engraved with my personal imprint and represent all my style preferences. So then I began to construct the story, a proud but timid woman with secrets in her heart and a group of hilarious mundane people, what would happen to them in a mountain forest surrounded by mist and fog…

In Southern Beijing, a father and his son who relied on each other were struggling to live, and two daughters wanted to seize their father's retirement expenses for their own personal gain. And misfortunes came one after another. The 60-year-old demented son was deliberately abandoned by his brother-in-law, and the young tenant went astray for so-called love. Life was getting tougher. In the constant struggles, the 90-year-old father felt hard to bear the burden of life, and wanted to end his life with pesticides with his son. The film ends here and leaves the suspense, in which the cold-bloodedness and fetters of kinship are vividly displayed. The feeling of powerlessness goes straight to the hearts through screen. Two people’s lifetime adding up to 150 years come to an abrupt end.

This story happens in the southern part of Beijing. Lee, the motor-taxi driver's and his family live in a dilapidated tenement yard. His disobliging sister always asks him for the relocation of the tenement yard and urges her brother's family to repay the money. Kai's classmate, named Er Dong, a bad boy whose father is the lecherous principal, frames a case against Kai that he had stolen the monitor's cell phone. The teacher always looks upon on Kai, he denounces Kai without any investigation and gives a slap on Kai's face. Kai hit the teacher with a brick in great impulsion and the principal dismissed Kai. Because of this, Lee has to beg the principal for retraining the punishment on Kai, besides, Lee has to offer a bribe for his son. At last, grandpa passed away quietly, lee was arrested by the police because of the prostitute's tip-offs. Kai stands lonely on the rooftop of his dilapidated house, sees the blinding sunlight and hears the cockcrow......

LIU Yisi is a seven-year-old boy. His parents are divorced and he lives alone with his mother. One day, mother's boyfriend came to visit us. During dinner, his father called and said that he was going to work in another place. He hoped Yisi could live with him for a while, but Yisi refused. Lewis found out that his mother's boyfriend was spending the night. Lewis was upset and went to his father's house the next day. Yisi and his father gradually warm up, but was told by his mother that his father went to the other place has nothing to do with work, just because of a wealthy woman. Feeling his pride hurt, Yisi again treated his father coldly. After experiencing the cold war and running away from home, father and son slowly untangle their feelings, reconcile and say goodbye.

A series of processes weave a dragnet, covering the lives of animals, and also trapped in the future of human beings. If we exchange identities with animals, will you choose to suffer or fight?

The film tells about an artist named Banpo, who suddenly returned to Songzhuang one day in 2019, silently packed hundreds of his paintings, packed his luggage, attended the worship service, watched an exhibition, and then said goodbye to his old friends. Finally, he completely left the story of Songzhuang in a quiet early morning. This story seems to be during the process of documenting artist Banpo moving out，the director reveal a huge change in the environment the artist lived in. As if the artist Banpo has foreseen the turmoil of 2020(as Coronavirus epidemic spreading across the world, a massive demolition began at Songzhuang Art District. Many artists, like Banpo, have left Songzhuang. The small town once was famous for Chinese contemporary art 20 years ago, is now gone.)

‘Body’ is an object we are all familiar with. For British sculptor Anthony Gormley, it is a medium for expressing thoughts about space, while for young female artist Wang Ying, it is a potential vehicle for expressing emotions. This documentary uses a split-screen method to create a three-dimensional space like a "body". It not only explores the artistic concept and development of Wang Ying, a female artist born in the 1990s who studied in the UK but also completed it on this basis. The documentary creator (me) thinks about her and her body, from'meeting','seeing' to'existence'

Xu Wangsheng, an elderly migrant worker who returned to his hometown, had a relationship with his son Xu Chao because of his years away from home and his wife's illness. The crazy girl and Xu Chao had no guesses, and later they were stimulated outside. On the night of the winter solstice, Xu Chao was seen by his father when he raped a mad woman. Since then, the mad woman has Xu Chao in her heart. Xu Wangsheng asked someone to find a daughter-in-law for his son. When the blind date, Xu Chao deliberately opposed the father, causing the blind date to fail. The father and son were completely overthrown. Xu Chao secretly went to Guangzhou. On the thirtieth night of the year, Xu Chao died unexpectedly on the way back from Guangzhou. Xu Wangsheng decided to find a ghost wife for his son ...

Jiang Xue, a well-known investigative journalist, began an in-depth investigation into the political injustice that happened in his hometown nearly half a century ago. "Xue‘s investigation" was one of Jiang Xue's main self-media at the time, but it was suspended in a short period of time because of the depth and sharpness of the work and the courage to reveal the truth of the incident. During the filming by Jiang Xue, the video version of "Snow Visit" produced by Tiger Temple was only made in the first phase of the film and one person (Xiang Chengjian) died prematurely, making it a precious historical film.

Since 2007, the director of this film has initiated and participated in charity activities for the relief of the refugees in Tiananmen Square. The main line of the film is the director and Japanese friendly people who visited the refugees in Nanxiao Street, Beijing, where they lived in 2014, and tracked the scene of their livelihood on Tiananmen Square. The film was edited in combination with the old video materials shot by the director for eight years.

The work reflects on the relationship between technology and us by constructing an advanced technological product from the future. This future product will replace people's worship and spiritual sustentation of the power of gods and Buddhas in religion with technology, turning the invisible into visible. This paper probes into the possibility and influence of the deification of technology in the future, and puts forward the solution of "love, nostalgia and nature" to relieve the pain caused by the excessive intervention of technology.

The core of the work is to explore and experiment the viewing mechanism of the image. Try to recreate the third space with the characteristic of "halo" through images. The halo points to ambiguity and a sense of distance, while the third space is the difference space constructed by reality and consciousness. The work uses fragments of daily life and poetic non-linear narrative as two narrative means, interspersing and advancing the narrative, which corresponds to the two viewing states of the audience, namely reverie and trance, and hopes to connect the audience with the image in the form of flowing water.

Tian Yuan and Da Bing were brothers who had been in contact for many years. They gradually alienated but at the same time fell in love with a girl who dances like a nightclub. In the entanglement of love and brotherhood, youth ends in a group fight for their love. . Love and hatred, like smoke, silk, and thread, became the past...