Wang Hongwei

Five shorts explore a dystopian Hong Kong in 2025, where city residents and activists struggle under an iron-fisted rule.

After a drunk passenger causes a devastating accident, a taxi driver is forced to pay the mounting hospital bills when his insurance won’t cover them.

A Berlinale Silver Bear winner from master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (In the Mood for Love, The Assassin), this mysterious, sublime and elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civilization with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex universe.

Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Ouyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover.