Lixue doesn’t ask herself if she likes Recife. She certainly doesn’t want to ask whether her new city likes her, after being sent there to live with her aunt. Aunt Lili owns an emporium of shops for Chinese import products and lives with her family and her workers on the 22nd floor of an exclusive apartment building. Much to the disapproval of the upper-class Brazilian landlords, who think the Chinese immigrants don’t belong in the tower. When Lixue disappears from the city, Ah arrives on the scene: the first tourist in Recife in years.
Executive Producer
On his 18th birthday, Jan Wen shoots randomly at the crowds in a night market for unknown reasons. The tragic incident causes a strong impact on the lives of his family and friends, the victims and the witnesses. However, if there was a chance for them to make different choices, would the tragedy still happen? Will it be a different outcome if they all changed their behaviour at the crucial moment?
Second In Command
Сяо Лунь погиб от удара молнией и потерял воспоминания о своей жизни. Он работает Богом любви, который соединяет людей красными нитями. Встретив Сяо Ми, Сяо Лунь вспоминает прошлую жизнь и то, что она была его возлюбленной при жизни. Девушка не видит Сяо Луня, но он не может заставить себя покинуть ее и вскоре понимает, что должен найти кого-то и связать его красной нитью с Сяо Ми, чтобы защитить ее от надвигающейся опасности.
Адаптировано из одноимённого романа Гидденса Ко.
Fisherman
Мечтая стать известной актрисой, Нина У уходит из небольшой театральной компании в провинции и уезжает в большой город. Воплощение мечты затягивается, девушка живёт одинокой жизнью, страдая от депрессии. Когда она наконец получает роль в шпионском фильме, вместо ожидаемой славы её ждут одни несчастья.
Producer
Бизнесмен Ван Синь Хун страдает бессонницей. Гадалка советует молодому человеку, чей автомобиль и выпуклый кошелек говорят о том, что дела у него идут неплохо: провести 14 дней в буддистском монастыре, жить как монах и есть по одному яблоку в день. Сделать это в наши дни возможно в Бирме. Ван Синь Хун следует совету, прибывает в сельский монастырь, бреется наголо и надевает красную одежду, в которой немедленно становится авторитетом.
Бизнесмен Ван Синь Хун страдает бессонницей. Гадалка советует молодому человеку, чей автомобиль и выпуклый кошелек говорят о том, что дела у него идут неплохо: провести 14 дней в буддистском монастыре, жить как монах и есть по одному яблоку в день. Сделать это в наши дни возможно в Бирме. Ван Синь Хун следует совету, прибывает в сельский монастырь, бреется наголо и надевает красную одежду, в которой немедленно становится авторитетом.
Two illegal Burmese migrants fleeing their country’s civil war find love with each other while struggling to survive in the bustling cities of Thailand.
Producer
Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner.
Cinematography
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com
Producer
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com
A young farmer and his father are barely able to survive on their meagre corn harvest and so they make their way down from the mountains to the village to borrow money from their relatives working in jade mines or on opium plantations. But missing paperwork, deceit and corruption have left them impoverished too. Finally, the father pawns his cow for a moped so that his son can earn a living as a taxi driver. His first customer is Sanmei, who has returned to Myanmar to bury her grandfather. She decides not to go back to China and to get out of an arranged marriage in order to begin a new life with her son in her old country. When Sanmei accepts a job as a drug runner she persuades the young farmer to be her driver.
Simple, yet complex. A man (favourite actor Wang Shin-hong) meets a woman (standard actor Wu Ke-xi) on a moored ship, a sort of floating palace decorated like a Buddhist temple. The woman or her spirit struggles with her memories and the man takes on the form of a Buddhist monk in his next life. Complex and yet simple. The man, the woman and the camera move gracefully 'dancing' through the space. Only the thought of escape.
After decades of military rule, Burma has finally held its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that peace and prosperity will soon soon follow, including Wang Xing-Hong who is living as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan and saves his money so he can return home. When Xing-hong arrives, he feels like a stranger in a foreign land but is determined to stay and make his life in Burma.
