Jia Zhangke • 2016 • China • A sweeping portrait of love across generations.
Tao, a young shopkeeper in Fenyang, marries Jingsheng, hoping to escape her provincial existence. Fifteen years later, Jingsheng has remarried and moved to Shanghai, taking their 7-year-old son, Daole, with him. While they remain distant, Tao strives to carve out a space for herself in Daole's life.
A sweeping portrait of love across generations, Mountains May Depart surveys in intimate strokes the repercussions of technology, modernization, and global capitalism on contemporary Chinese society. Acclaimed filmmaker Jia Zhangke's eighth feature premiered at Cannes and San Sebastián, where it won the Audience Award. Mountains May Depart is a New York Times Critics' Pick.
Johnny Ma • China-Canada • 2016 • No good deed goes unpunished for a cab driver in a Chinese city.
Lao Shi works as a cab driver in a small Chinese city. While on the job one day a drunken passenger causes him to ...
Lee Chang-dong • South Korea • 2010 • Poetry brings transcendence in a woman’s twilight years
Mija lives in South Korea with her only grandson, Wook. Wook’s mother lives in another city, so Mija shares her small apart...
Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam • India-USA • 2018 • An exile Tibetan woman's search for closure.
Dolkar fled Tibet as an eight-year-old child, crossing a treacherous mountain pass knee-deep in snow. Here a...
