A poor opera troupe is disappointed by the director's announcement that sponsorship funds have gone missing after the troupe wrapped up a performance in Kaifeng, a rural town in China. The performers are forced to take on odd jobs just to get by, adding more antagonism to their unstable marriages and friendships. Ma San, whose wife is dying to leave for a better life in France, tries his hand in another obsolete art - cock fighting; Liu Bing starts a photo studio with help from his in-laws; and Sihai sells stolen puppies while awaiting the return of his wife.

The opera troupe of Kaifeng ended its time during an era where new genres of music conquered the radio and Chinese opera lost its novelty and support. Chinese opera's popularity fell even further as China grappled to keep up with the ever-developing urban world. The bulk of the movie revolves around the disintegration of the opera troupe, and how the members were forced out of their sheltered lives when their only means of livelihood, the art of opera which they painstakingly mastered, was denied from them. Without other skills, the performers faced the hardships of a world in which they never had a place in before. But gradually, the movie resolves with creativity and humour as the characters pull themselves through.

It's a story a bout a woman among four men with love, sex, affections and hatreds. One man is willing to die for her, and another is pushing her to death; The third man is so devoted to her that he is willing to pay with his own life to whoever can make her change from what she is. The forth man however is the one she wants to change with her own efforts, at any cost.

After the mysterious sudden death of her husband, she takes a one-way street of revenge when a more mysterious and more profound foreign man walks into her life. For a period of time, she believes that her life is ready to make a positive turn. But, that seems too soon. While crimes are tearing everything apart, nothing remains unexposed. It's not until the end of her list of revenge, does she get a chance to learn the name of her husband's murderer. But...

Sixty years ago, Shanghai was the "Hollywood of China" and home to its glamorous film stars - a place of romance and unrest. Inspired by the romance between Chinese legendary actor Zhao Dan (Angels in the Street) and his actress wife, Huang Zongying (Crow and the Sparrow), director Peng Xialian brings her personal imagination to bear on this nostalgic love tale set in the 1940s. Wan Yu is a young housewife, who, ignoring her family's opposition, takes a role in a movie. On set, she meets Ah Chuan, a famous actor who despite his reputation is a poor, single father of two children. However, once the shoot begins, the two fall in love. The audience are ultimately left to ponder the open ending of this drama-within-a-drama: The two leads embrace in the final shot of their film (and ours), but do they have the courage to break the bounds of traditional family values and continue their relationship in the real world?

Although it revolves around the love story of a real silver-screen couple, the movie also offers an insight into the lives of Chinese artists in Shanghai during this bygone era, demonstrating how they persisted in making progressive films in a society of limited freedoms. They did so with intelligence, optimism, determination, and a spirit of unity. Shooting in her native Shanghai, director Peng Xiaolian successfully evokes the look and feel of old Shanghai, complete with seething rumba ballrooms, exquisite qipao, and cinemas full of people watching Hollywood movies. Furthermore, it is interesting to watch how China's senior moviemakers handled early cameras and projectors.

Filmed locally in San Diego, The High Tower bears witness to the grind of organized crime as seen through the eyes of three low level Chinese mobsters in California. They deal with street thugs, customers, and problems as they prepare for a big score. Their leader, a woman named Ling, contemplates life outside the criminal world for the first time.

We'll have a special Q&A session with director Rusty Trevino and producer Seher Basak - both San Diego natives - where they'll discuss the process and challenges of independent film making in San Diego. Don't miss it!

One cop, three criminals, five bullets, and a suspension without exaggeration.

Lao Feng (Liu Pei Qi) is a police officer on his last mission of transferring three dangerous criminals before his retirement. Among the three, one is on death toll (Jiang Wu), another is serious fraud criminal (Wu Da Wei) of money laundry with an unbelievable high IQ, and the other, a frequent offender (Li Bin) in and out jails for more times then one can count. All in all, Feng is equipped with only five bullets in his pistol for this mission.

Who are the five bullets for? Who is the girl in red that suddenly appears in the story and how is she related to each of the criminals? In a plot that makes the situation change almost every three minutes, there is no way of telling what everyone is facing.

It is a story about a bunch of college students in Shenzhen, China, about their life both on and outside of campus, especially their helpless love skateboarding. Using the word "boarding" as the story line, it depicts the world outlooks, concept of values, life expectations and the differences in understanding the nowadays world of the generation called the post 80's in a special economy zone, such as Shenzhen, China. It also describes the characters of this generation in terms of information absorbance, social morals and their pursuance of what's new with unrelenting struggles.

It's a story full of youth energy, clear taste of our times, vanguard dynamics and the Southern landscapes of China combined in all. Noticeably, while its spectacular effect by skillful application of colors brings sunshine onto the screen, the switch of endless skateboarding scenes embraces the audiences with a sense of modern times. Not to mention that the director, screenwriter and its major actors and actresses are of the post 80 generation themselves who are students at art colleges, actions after actions of real skateboarding competitions add to this film a special rhythm that is combined with the intensive sports and tastes of future.

Naoki Mizushima (Masahiro Motoki) is a top-of-the-line hairdresser/designer. He arrives in Shanghai for the Charity Music Festival, and with him is Miho (Naomi Nisida), his agent as well as lover for years.

He makes an individual design for each of the performing artist and his talent helps shape the festival into a great success. But he is not happy about it at all; his job that looks smooth actually disgusts him. And what's more, the relationship between him and Miho is about to end. In the meantime, another man named Estuary is having a crush on Miho...