This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles of key groups across four pivotal eras: the revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the new era, while highlighting their perseverance, dedication to ideals, and commitment to passing on the national spirit through generations.
Wu Jing
Ma Renxing (segment "Riding the Wind")
Zhang Ziyi
Yu Kaiying (segment "Poetry")
Xu Zheng
Zhao Pingyang (segment "Duck Prophet")
Teng Shen
Xing Yihao (segment "Youth Journey")
Huang Xuan
Shi Ruhong (segment "Poetry")
Song Jia
Han Jingya (segment "Duck Prophet")
Zhang Yuqi
Xiao Pang's Mother (segment "Duck Prophet")
Tao Hong
Teacher Qian (segment "Duck Prophet")
Ou Hao
Xiao Ma (segment "Duck Prophet")
This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles of key groups across four pivotal eras: the revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the new era, while highlighting their perseverance, dedication to ideals, and commitment to passing on the national spirit through generations.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.