Zhou Haodong
1964 (61 год)
天下第一镖局
Mengxi Tao
Fan Siu-Wong, Xing Yu
The story follows a band of courageous bodyguards headed by Yang Liu An, and tasked by General Ma Bao with escorting his daughter Chen Yuanyuan, concubine to the recently deceased Ming emperor Wu Sangui, and her son, the last hope of the Ming Dynasty, to safety. En route, they must fend off the attacks of enemy general Hala, as well as Ma Bao’s treacherous second-in-command Ma Biao, all the while being closely watched by the mysterious Zhu You.
The Bravest Escort Group
快手枪手快枪手
Pan Anzi
Lin Gengxin, Zhang Jingchu
When a professional thief sees his lifetime goal of being the best potentially realized in stealing a rare artifact, he finds himself entangled in a worldwide plot involving the Soviets, the Japanese and a band of outsiders. It’s up to him and a special agent to save the world!
For a Few Bullets
Legend of the Demon Seal
Miao Shu
Sammul Chan, Yu Hanbing
Working as an ordinary artist on Bai Ze's comic project The Legend of Demon Sea has aspiring artist Feng Xue feeling like wasted talent. To vent his frustration, he begins another version the project, filling the illustrated adventures of an alchemy master with mythic parallels to his daily grind. With his comics Feng takes vengeance whenever he's slighted or passed over in the studio, drawing his colleagues and boss into unflattering scenes. But when Bai Ze discovers an illustrated version of himself suffering under Feng's brush, he's far from angry. He praises Feng Xue for his originality, and takes the new draft to his boss. This is when Bai Ze also learns what it means to be frustrated at work, challenging him to choose between what he believes in and what his job demands.
Legend of the Demon Seal
猎梦人
Guangting Chen
Chen Xiaoliang, Mi Mi
In 2050, a new technology is developped: it allows people to enter the dream world of someone else by using a special headwear. Detective Yu wants to use her technology in order to solve his case. Researcher Lan Xiao Wei agrees, as she thinks the case was connected to her mother's coma. As Xiao Wei linked herself to the dream world of an unconscious victim, the detective follows her in secret. The two of them experience all kinds of dangers in the dream world.
Dream Hunting
窥
Li Wake
江庚辰, Zhou Haodong
CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.
The Crack
Scandals
Jack Kao, Hong Jiantao
The boss played by Hong Jiantao is a "vulnerable man" who eats soft food. He lives in a bungalow and drives a luxury car. He looks like a wealthy man. In fact, these are all "countries" created by his wife. After the two experienced a seven-year itch, their marriage gradually broke down. Hong Jiantao secretly took Xiaosan outside, but was discovered by his wife, who hired a private detective to take pictures of the two men's affair, in order to coerce him to "cleanse and leave the house." In order to prevent his wife from grabbing the handle, Hong Jiantao hired a thief to steal the evidence from his wife. As a result, the thief was caught by the police during the theft, and the divorce that could have settled down became more and more troublesome in the end...
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