Back to 1942

A story about coming to the end of your journey as an expat in China, told through the lens of the films that inspired us.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaugh...

A wealthy young man pursues a young woman of modest means, but circumstances often separate them as the years pass.

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate thei...

Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ra...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldi...

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast ste...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest...

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mo...

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troubles...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and s...