Ma Yili

The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

A suspected criminal mastermind escapes from police custody, throwing the city into turmoil. With the police department now divided, rival police chiefs are forced to take their fight to the streets of Hong Kong with deadly consequences.

After five specially trained officers and a van full of firearms fall off the grid, the Hong Kong police start receiving calls from the hijackers.

When a series of eerie murders erupts across Hong Kong, grizzled veteran Huang and his reckless younger partner Wang, are assigned to track down the killer.

Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.

Villagers pooled up money and drive a sick widow to Yangzhou on a tractor to see a doctor.

A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.

The film is composed of five short stories: "Gulina's Pillow", "Riding With Wind", "Home Elsewhere", "Bala", and "Children Of The World". These stories are connected by strong emotions and depict the unique culture, geography, and harmonious coexistence of different ethnic groups in Altay.

Xiaoxian's life falls apart when she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Heartbroken, she struggles to move on, but her tough co-worker Jian steps in with a tough-love approach to help her heal.

After years of trying to escape her mother’s control and avoid her fate, Qingshui, a woman in her 30s living in Shanghai, finds herself unwittingly succumbing to the same behaviors as her mother and reliving her life. When her mother dies, Qingshui realizes she is stuck in her marriage and struggles to once again chart her own course.

Chinese film directed by Gang Xia.

Figure skater Jiang struggles to salvage her career under the ruthless eye of her mother and coach, Wang. At the rink, she finds a kindred spirit in Zhong. But when Wang begins to train Zhong, tension builds and Jiang’s ambition spirals into destructive obsession.

Lu Yao met his kindergarten classmate Ma Li in colleague, and his attraction towards her grows in his heart. Unfortunately, he was one step too slow to tell her his affection. In the following ten years, Ma Li went through following in love, breaking up, marriage, divorce, and getting married again soon. At the same time, Lu Yao has also experienced two fruitless relationships. What would happen next?

Set against the backdrop of massive economic growth in the 1990s, the story follows A Bao, a self-made millionaire and his journey from being a young opportunist with a troubled past to accumulating dazzling wealth in the city of Shanghai. It also follows his entanglement with four women who represent the pursuits of his life: adventure, honour, love and innocence.

An aging opera singer facing retirement and a divorce. An energetic young woman seeking to escape her mundane life with her boyfriend. A young teacher obsessed with a new and rebellious student from Shanghai. All of them have one thing in common: their lives are intertwined with Xi Shi's, one of ancient China's legendary beauties.

Li Jie, a lawyer, is taking divorce proceedings to try to get custody of her daughter. As she is working hard to earn a better life for her daughter, she hires a baby sitter, Sun Fang, to watch her child. One day, Li comes home only to find her child and Sun have disappeared. Unfortunately, Li is suspected by both her family and the police, and must lean on herself to trace Sun alone.

During the dates of celebrating the Emperor's 80th birthday, an opera troupe from southern China was invited to come to Beijing to perform for the Emperor. Afterwards, the opera troupe was granted to stay in Beijing and became what we had known as 'Peking Opera' today.

A group of heroic women from various walks of life in a village near the Yangtze River stand up and confront Japanese invaders during WWII. The movie is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War to commemorate the history and promote peace. More than 100 movie stars and artists were involved in the production of the movie.

This film is adapted from the original novel "The Winds Rise" by Hu Xuewen. Middle-aged man Kong Lingxue is a Chinese language teacher at the Shuangquan Wushu School in a city in Northeast China. In one class, he confiscates a girl named Liu Meng's phone, and later intervenes in a fight between Liu Meng and a young man named Axiang, who is pursuing her. This action leads to trouble for Kong Lingxue.

Chinese film directed by Gang Xia.

A Gobi Desert ostrich farmer indebted to the local mob agrees to take care of a kidnapped boy until the father provides the ransom.

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At sunset, in Shanghai, a timid young man is trembling, having accidentally killed his friend. He goes to the police to turn himself in, but they ignore him. As night falls, the man is in despair and is drawn to the soft voice of a radio DJ, to whom he confesses, adding that he will commit suicide tomorrow at 6pm. Unaware that his confession has become a hot topic, the man wanders the streets at night in search of the girlfriend he loved in middle school. He calls the DJ to inform him that he does not intend to die, but the DJ asks him to come to the place where he promised to commit suicide. This film is part of the low-budget digital experimental film project Super City. Born in Shanghai, but raised in Urumqi, the main character is unable to adapt to life in a big city. The sound design, filled with radio noise, and the canted angles, reveal the psychology of a person trapped in the huge but closed-off city. —Jeonju Film Festival