Jie Gao

Actress Joan Chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale -- adapted from the award-winning novella "Tian Yu" by Shanghai writer Yan Geling -- about the loss of innocence during Mao Zedong's brutal Cultural Revolution, surrounding its precocious title character, Wen Xiu (played by 16-year-old Lu Lu), who finds herself one of millions of Chinese teenagers sent to the hinterlands to receive specialized training during the early 1970s. (AMG)

Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, the story is inspired by John Woo's classic work Bullet in the Head, released in 1990. (imdb)

In the romantic-comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Single," the movie tackles the Chinese social phenomenon of secret marriages for young couples looking for better jobs and higher income. A young man (Eason Chan) with high mortgage payments to fulfill takes the job of a personal-assistant to a female CEO (Rene Liu) under the condition that he is still single. (The Movie Database)