So Long, My Son
The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the ’80s, as experienced by two families.
The Assassin
A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty who begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.
Cell Phone
Written by Liu Zhenyun, based on his own novel of the same title, the film revolves around two successful men whose marriages were wrecked when their wives uncovered their extramarital affairs through traces left in their cellphones. More broadly, the film explores the role of cellphones in interpersonal relationships in modern China, where the rapid development in information technology is having huge impacts on the way people communicate.
Aftershock
Chinese movie by director Feng Xiaogang based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.