Ye Liu

Adapted from the internet novel "Beijing Story," this is the story of a young gay student and his relationship with an older man set against the uprising of Tiananmen Square. (Strand Releasing)

The film is set in the mountainous regions of the western Hunan province in the early 1980s. At the film's start, a young man (Liu Ye) begins his first journey as a postman at the mountainous rural areas of the aforesaid regions. His father (Ten Rujun), a veteran postman forced to retire due to a bad knee, decides to accompany him together with the family's faithful dog, Buddy. The father walks his son through the nitty-gritty of the job, and the son realizes the mailman job entails not just...

An epic tale of doomed passion, mistaken identity and the terrible personal cost of political resistance. (Palm Pictures)

Based on the international best-seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970's during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. (Empire Pictures)

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision. (imdb)

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. (imdb)

A Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.

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

Bob's life isn't going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he's under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister's threat to move to China with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It's a stranger called Grace who claims a mysterious kidnapper is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. (AsianMediaWiki)

Generational family saga set in Shanghai in the thirties, sixties and eighties (imdb)

A dramatization of the rape of Nanking in 1937. (imdb)

A modern tale of a young veteran who is a Kung fu master, but is mentally slow, because of an accident.

What the standard is to measure love. Should we be loyal to money, material things or our own hearts? (imdb)

A beautiful real-estate agent (Peiru) gets drunk at a karaoke bar and throws up on a principled, lonely cop (Zhendong). Zhendong quickly falls for the flirtatious Peiru despite the fact that she's having a tortuous affair with a married man. As Peiru gradually abandons her materialistic values and falls in love with the good hearted Zhendong, it becomes apparent that he is suffering from a disease that is robbing him of his mental faculties.

Liu Ye reprises his role as Laosan, the former Navy officer who suffered brain damage while on duty. Low on mental capacity but stacked with Kung Fu skills Laosan would walk around the city fighting crime. And more crime is afoot when in The Underdog Knight 2 Laosan fights international criminals to protect a national treasure from being stolen during an exhibition. He also rescues his girlfriend from kidnappers. Director Ding Sheng returns to helm the film.

A man and a woman's lives intersect over two generations.

Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death) returns to the Festival with this breathtaking historical epic about the fall of the Qin Dynasty in the second century B.C. (tiff.net)

Adopted by a powerful Hong Kong mobster as an infant, Phoebe returns from schooling in the United States only to have her new dad slain by a rival. Senior gang members then ask the innocent Phoebe to replace her father as boss, and she assents. (Netflix)

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage. (imdb)

In this suspenseful crime thriller, Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by six unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. The story is based on the 2004 real-life celebrity kidnapping case in China.

Set during the Sino-Japan war, a biological weapon (cholera) is used by Japan. But their plan falls apart when it mutates and everyone is at risk. A Japanese scientist is racing a cure back to HQ, when he is held up in the streets of a deserted city by The Scoundrel. The scientist and scoundrel end up in a deserted restaurant where they meet an unusual Cook & his wife, with the house Actor. Everyone wants the case the scientist has, and various plans to sell and divide the contents emerge. (imdb)

A widowed father and tow truck operator is given two days to clear his name of a murder he did not commit.

What if you are caught between two cities you both call home?What if you are caught between two men who you both love? (imdb)

The story begins in 1927 at the beginning of the Nanchang uprising, known as the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement. (wikipedia)

In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her to gymnastics where she does her best to fit in with the others. (imdb)

Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landscape from the days when he was still a boy living in Qingdao in China. Maan goes to Qingdao to find this landscape. There, she meets Lit (Liu Ye), a postman who will help her to find that place. A relationship grows between Maan and Lit but she can't forget the love she had for Sam.

A young deaf man, a mute young woman and a woman with a very bad temper. They all live in the same small village and this is the story about the love and intrigues they all share.

Tenacious and optimistic, Mini (Angelica Lee) is an acrobat at a Shanghai circus troupe. Having lost both her parents at a young age, Mini has never had a real family, and her greatest dream is to find a love that she can rely on, a love that will make her fly. Kang (Liu Ye) works at a music store called Go With the Flow, which just about sums up his aimless lifestyle. (themoviedb.org)

A criminal is released from jail only to be tracked down by a man on a mission. They're both after a girl, and a ring of child kidnappers is soon after them. It's a game of cat and mouse, but with a tiger, a wolf, and a rabbit.