The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.
In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
An accidental death of the suspect leads to the entire team of the Third Division being imprisoned. Six years later, team leader Cheng Bing is released but remains consumed by the case. Over the next eleven years, he lives a normal life while secretly tracking down the killer, determined to see justice served.
A father and mother rack their brains in order to help their son achieve early success in China's education system.
After an accident puts his son in a coma, his father writes a fake suicide note creating a situation that spirals out of control.
Two members of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are tasked with the evacuation of Chinese citizens when war breaks out in Numia, North Africa.
The kind and tolerant grandmother reunites with her granddaughter, who went missing 12 years ago in an accident. From being strangers, they gradually become close, and during their time together, the secrets they carry are slowly revealed.
Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?
In an attempt to win back the public's interest, has-been Hong Kong film star Lau Wai-chi makes a comeback film with a major director. To prepare for his role as a peasant farmer in the 1960s, he travels to the mainland China countryside to experience rural life there, but his arrogance triggers a series of farces.
Zhang Beijing loss his face at his son’s engagement party. After that he refunds the sense of purpose by helping Liu Angxi, a screenwriter of the Beidiao Neighbour's talk show. However, he was pushed into the limelight after being used as material by Liu Angxi, and their friendship broke down
An ordinary adult film staff uses seventeen minutes to talk about the chaotic market in today's Chinese film industry and how to revitalize Chinese films.
A child's-eye story of Shanghainese settlers in Xinjiang during the late Mao era.
Yuan Shuai, a debt-ridden animal-breeder, tries to get out of his financial predicament by finding a wealthy girlfriend through matchmaking dates. He unexpectedly meets and fall in love with the fox demon, Bai Xianchu, who has arrived to the mortal realm to repay her gratitude. However, the head of the Demon tribe Yun Zhonghe forbids a love relationship between a demon and a human; and takes Bai Xianchu away. To seek his lover, Yuan Shuai bravely crashes the demonic world.
When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.
In order to treat his 6-year-old son suffering from asthma, Wu Hai's friend Zhong Zhenjiang encourages him to get deliberately acquainted with Miaomiao. She is a network anchor who is also at the bottom and determined to brew a marriage scam with ulterior motives..
Yan is a bank employee who is strict and prudent at doing things. But he is really considered as a weirdo by colleagues. The bank is selected as the place that takes part in a bank robbery and annihilation maneuver, and Yan applies to act as the robber.
Lu and Ling, two high-school sweethearts who pledged to get married to each other in their youth. Over the next 10 years, their relationship is tried and tested by a number of obstacles that stand in their way.
Ding Lei, a street dance veteran, invites a young entertainer to join his club. However, they are faced with a series of challenges.
The girl Zhao Xiaoman repeated her life of doing odd jobs, and the intrusion of a stray dog gradually made her let go of the pain of her family. The inseparable day and night companionship warmed the two lonely souls. When bidding farewell is inevitable, should we still take care of it? Xiaoman chose to respond calmly with actions - I want to take care of myself, we will all be fine.
Journalist Ye Pan is looking for the truth behind a puzzling double fall. During her investigation, she reports nurse Li Yue and mother You Xi as suspects, which triggers public outcry and the situation gradually gets out of control.
A struggling pastry chef inherits a haunted shop, uncovering centuries of culinary curses and ghostly secrets while facing a moral dilemma: sacrifice innocent lives to perfect her craft, destroy the haunted legacy, or embrace the spirits' twisted pact with the living.
When a mysterious visitor appears, the life of Yong Cheng, owner of a store that stocks aphrodisiac products, changes dramatically. He becomes the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. Not only does Yong Cheng see his profits skyrocket, but he is dubbed the god of medicine“ by his customers