Constanze Schmitt

40-year-old housewife Cai has lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During one of her daughter’s basketball matches, she inadvertently injures an elderly woman. This seemingly trivial event is a catalyst for a life spinning out of control, as past events resurface while she moves into an unknown future. Director Qiu Yang follows a series of multi-awarded shorts with his debut feature, a mesmerizing and intimate drama about a woman forced to confront the wreckage of her life and her longing for change?

A teenage Karol, who is conditionally released from the correctional facility, stays in a training flat. Under electronic supervision, he starts his life anew. In his daily "life training" he can count on Marta's help. The relationship between them deepens and creates a chance for something more. With time, Marta's lessons become more and more unconventional, and her relationship with Karol turns into an ambiguous bond.

Andrea, a woman without a past, is the object of both Philipp’s and his son’s desire. A love triangle filled with expectations, longing and fears leaves open the speculation of who knows what about whom.

In an ordinary Chinese winter, a small city junior high student, YU, tries to quit her school aerobic dancing team.

In a nameless small Chinese city, a regular mother tries to find her missing daughter, in this gentle night.

Todor is in his early thirties and lives with his mother, reliant on her cooking, ironing, washing, and company. The comfort of this co-dependent lifestyle is suddenly altered one night when Todor arrives home late after an office party.

Winter in a big city. Thirty-year-old Klara arrives home with a random guy that she has just met. Both are drunk, they are giggling, having fun. But there is someone else in the apartment: Anton (9) catches them having sex. The next morning, Anton is gone.