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- Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
- Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted.
- 22-year-old Qiong digs into her family's dramas and traumas, exploring the complexity of politics, gender, sex, birth control and social political power over women's bodies.
- 11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang encounters a wounded man on the run and their fates are intertwined.
- A portrayal of the forced migration, which the Ta'ang people need to undergo, caused by an escalating civil war in the mountainous border-regions of Myanmar and China.
- Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters.
- Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.
- In a world of propaganda images, surrealist collage and pop-art animation, artist-filmmaker Lei Lei and his family recall the past to make sense of the present.
- Jiang Qing (1914-1991), the 4th wife of Mao Zeodong, was his personal secretary in the 1940s and head of the Film Section of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department in the 1950s.
- The woman speaks only in voiceover and is never seen. Her account is one of hardship, of a mother who died young, of a father sent to a farm for reform during the Cultural Revolution, of all the things the family lacked.
- Tianyu is a blind child who dreams of a life very different from the one planned for him by his mother. Strange as it may seem, she wants to turn him into a table tennis champion. When the boy disappears one day, his mother sets out in search of him, and she soon understands that she needs to hear and feel what her son sees in order to find him. Thus, she too must enter a world of darkness.
- Wu Yu's life is overturned after her mother is suddenly killed in a hit-and-run. The inexplicable and unsolved death has the previously secular schoolteacher Wu Yu diving into her mother's Buddhist temple, searching for answers larger than clues. Meanwhile, she sets off on a solitary mission to find her mother's killer. The compounding pressures of spiritual questioning, a crumbling marriage, and her beleaguered fight for justice whittle Wu Yu to a sharp and dangerous edge, just as she realizes the killer might be too powerful to bring down legally. In Hollywood this could be a superhero origin story, but in LOST LOTUS an overwhelming sense of grief, isolation, and the struggle for forgiveness undercuts simplistic revenge fantasies. Chinese Canadian actress Yan Wensi layers spirituality, heartache, and bravery into her portrayal of Wu Yu, while the filmmaking by Liu Shu keeps us locked in the tensions and contradictions of everyday city life. Alongside her acclaimed 2012 debut Lotus, LOST LOTUS marks Liu as a powerful chronicler of smart, steadfast women in contemporary China.