小志（陈禹彤 饰）是船家的孩子，从小就过着颠沛流离的动荡生活。这一次，跟随着父母，小志来到了一座位于广西的小县城里，即将在这里展开新的生活。在河边游泳的时候，小志遇见了名为雷管（陈祖健 饰）的男孩，两人之间因为误会发生了冲突。第二天，当小志前往新的学校报道的时候，意外的发现，雷管竟然是自己的同学，而且还是学校里知名的问题学生。 　　很快，小志就发现，雷管的社会关系要远比他所想像的复杂得多，他和当地的犯罪团伙有着千丝万缕的关联。然而，当警察为此询问小志时，小志包庇了雷管，却也因此而惹恼了雷管的死对头家聪（刘康达 饰）。

小志（陈禹彤 饰）是船家的孩子，从小就过着颠沛流离的动荡生活。这一次，跟随着父母，小志来到了一座位于广西的小县城里，即将在这里展开新的生活。在河边游泳的时候，小志遇见了名为雷管（陈祖健 饰）的男孩，两人之间因为误会发生了冲突。第二天，当小志前往新的学校报道的时候，意外的发现，雷管竟然是自己的同学，而且还是学校里知名的问题学生。 　　很快，小志就发现，雷管的社会关系要远比他所想像的复杂得多，他和当地的犯罪团伙有着千丝万缕的关联。然而，当警察为此询问小志时，小志包庇了雷管，却也因此而惹恼了雷管的死对头家聪（刘康达 饰）。

1939年，上海处于'孤岛'时期。上海职业妇女俱乐部在大陆电台举办广播，为筹募难民寒衣的义卖进行宣传。这次义卖是我地下党领导的，义卖的部分收入也将秘密捐给新四军制寒衣。这次活动得到上海各阶层爱国人士的广泛支持和响应。地下党员华素英是上海职业妇女俱乐部主席，她得到中学时代同学、新沪公司郭经理的帮助，借得了义卖场地。汪伪76号特务机关的特务企图摸清义卖的性质而进行破坏，不久，向新沪公司投掷炸弹，迫使郭经理不敢再借场子。此时，女大律师杜金光彩却主动要帮助解决场地，并提出要当义卖的法律顾问，参与义卖款项的支配。华素英识破了杜的阴谋，当场巧妙地回绝了杜金光彩。由于76号特务的破坏，华素英尽管到处奔波，还是借不到场子，最后决定把俱乐部办公室作为义卖会场。义卖会刚一开始，就遭到特务破坏，租界当局以'义卖破坏社会秩序' 为由加以禁止。这时，与华素英相依为命的老母因病去世。华正准备为母亲料理后事时，巡捕房却故意刁难，一定要华素英亲自去交涉有关义卖的事。华素英只得将母亲后事托交未婚夫闻元乔办理，闻责怪华'不讲母女之情'。华素英决然前往巡捕房。交涉结果，同意义卖恢复活动。特务机关李局长得知义卖恢复，大为恼火，命令部下绑架华素英。这一消息被华素英过去的邻居倪岫云偶然听到，她冒着生命危险急忙报告给华的战友管彤，敌人的阴谋又告失败。为了华的安全，组织决定让她到新四军去工作。行前，华素英与闻元乔道别，并动员他一起去。闻没有接受华的建议，一对情人怏怏而别。动身之日，职业妇女俱乐部的姐妹们为华送行，但由于内奸邬珍的告密，华素英遭到敌人的暗害。闻元乔在华素英的斗争精神鼓舞下，毅然地踏上了抗日救亡的革命道路。

1939年，上海处于'孤岛'时期。上海职业妇女俱乐部在大陆电台举办广播，为筹募难民寒衣的义卖进行宣传。这次义卖是我地下党领导的，义卖的部分收入也将秘密捐给新四军制寒衣。这次活动得到上海各阶层爱国人士的广泛支持和响应。地下党员华素英是上海职业妇女俱乐部主席，她得到中学时代同学、新沪公司郭经理的帮助，借得了义卖场地。汪伪76号特务机关的特务企图摸清义卖的性质而进行破坏，不久，向新沪公司投掷炸弹，迫使郭经理不敢再借场子。此时，女大律师杜金光彩却主动要帮助解决场地，并提出要当义卖的法律顾问，参与义卖款项的支配。华素英识破了杜的阴谋，当场巧妙地回绝了杜金光彩。由于76号特务的破坏，华素英尽管到处奔波，还是借不到场子，最后决定把俱乐部办公室作为义卖会场。义卖会刚一开始，就遭到特务破坏，租界当局以'义卖破坏社会秩序' 为由加以禁止。这时，与华素英相依为命的老母因病去世。华正准备为母亲料理后事时，巡捕房却故意刁难，一定要华素英亲自去交涉有关义卖的事。华素英只得将母亲后事托交未婚夫闻元乔办理，闻责怪华'不讲母女之情'。华素英决然前往巡捕房。交涉结果，同意义卖恢复活动。特务机关李局长得知义卖恢复，大为恼火，命令部下绑架华素英。这一消息被华素英过去的邻居倪岫云偶然听到，她冒着生命危险急忙报告给华的战友管彤，敌人的阴谋又告失败。为了华的安全，组织决定让她到新四军去工作。行前，华素英与闻元乔道别，并动员他一起去。闻没有接受华的建议，一对情人怏怏而别。动身之日，职业妇女俱乐部的姐妹们为华送行，但由于内奸邬珍的告密，华素英遭到敌人的暗害。闻元乔在华素英的斗争精神鼓舞下，毅然地踏上了抗日救亡的革命道路。

梅丽莎（艾米·斯马特 Amy Smart 饰）和华裔玉林（Tim Chiou 饰）是一对来自美国的新婚夫妇，他们将蜜月地点选在玉林的家乡——中国广东某县。异域文化让土生土长的美国女孩梅丽莎好奇、惊喜，不过也许他们挑错了时机。是时正值农历七月，中国的鬼节临近。当地导游平（Dennis Chan 饰）驱车载着二人前往玉林的家。夜深人静，道路蜿蜒，人生地不熟的平失去方向，来到一片陌生的村庄。平下车问路，却始终不见回来。夫妻二人焦急万分，于是下车寻找。他们一无所获，反而被恐怖的叫声下的失魂落魄。 　　两人驱车逃跑，一路上惊险不断。梅丽莎曾和平谈论过饿死鬼的传说，而在鬼门大开的时分，似乎饿死鬼并非只是传说……

梅丽莎（艾米·斯马特 Amy Smart 饰）和华裔玉林（Tim Chiou 饰）是一对来自美国的新婚夫妇，他们将蜜月地点选在玉林的家乡——中国广东某县。异域文化让土生土长的美国女孩梅丽莎好奇、惊喜，不过也许他们挑错了时机。是时正值农历七月，中国的鬼节临近。当地导游平（Dennis Chan 饰）驱车载着二人前往玉林的家。夜深人静，道路蜿蜒，人生地不熟的平失去方向，来到一片陌生的村庄。平下车问路，却始终不见回来。夫妻二人焦急万分，于是下车寻找。他们一无所获，反而被恐怖的叫声下的失魂落魄。 　　两人驱车逃跑，一路上惊险不断。梅丽莎曾和平谈论过饿死鬼的传说，而在鬼门大开的时分，似乎饿死鬼并非只是传说……

Darezhan Omirbaev's penchant for spare, elliptical narrative, muted figures, and disembodied framing (most notably, of hands and feet) have often been (favorably) compared to the rigorous aesthetic of Robert Bresson. However, in imposing such a somber - and inescapably cerebral - analogy, there is also a propensity to overlook the wry, self-effacing humor and irony of situation that pervade his films: a lyricism that equally captures the human comedy in all its contradictions and nobility from the margins of Soviet society. This sense of the quotidian as a continuum of human experience, elegantly rendered in Omirbaev's recent film, The Road through Amir's recurring daydream of a mother milking a cow and her intrusive child (who, in turn, looks remarkably like Amir's own son) in rural Kazakhstan (an image that subsequently proves to be a catalytic historical memory from his childhood when man landed on the moon), can also be seen from the outset of Omirbaev's cinema through his incorporation of a decidedly Buñuelian sequence in the short film, July of a young boy who, while on the lookout for guards near the foothills of a kolkhoz commissary, curiously finds himself wandering into a recital hall where the performance of a young pianist is punctuated by the appearance of a horseman on the stage. Part pastoral observation on the pervasiveness of underdevelopment and the austerity of life in the rural villages of Soviet-era collective farms (and in particular, at the outlying frontiers of the Soviet Central Asia), and part autofiction on a pair of restless boys whose penchant for escapist (mis)adventures reveal a nascent, if displaced, creative sensibility, July establishes the aesthetic framework that would come to define Omirbaev's cinema: the overture of first love depicted through seemingly innocent - yet deliberate - passing touches (the bus encounter in Kaïrat, the movie house flirtation in July); the frustration of isolation inherent in a rural childhood manifested through acts of mischief (the opening sequence of Kaïrat, the courtyard fight of Kardiogramma), the subconscious act of self-reflection illustrated through literal self-reflection through the reflected image of a rear view mirror (Marat's drive home from the hospital in Killer, Amir's extended road trip to visit his ailing mother in The Road). Inevitably, what proves to be the most remarkable - and irresistible - aspect of Omirbaev's deceptively simple coming of age film is its ability to capture the interpenetration between reality and fiction interpenetrate with such seemingly effortless, uninhibited intimacy - a wide eyed innocence that hovers in the ephemeral - ever teetering between solemnity and absurdity, boredom and roguishness, anxiety and imagination.

Darezhan Omirbaev's penchant for spare, elliptical narrative, muted figures, and disembodied framing (most notably, of hands and feet) have often been (favorably) compared to the rigorous aesthetic of Robert Bresson. However, in imposing such a somber - and inescapably cerebral - analogy, there is also a propensity to overlook the wry, self-effacing humor and irony of situation that pervade his films: a lyricism that equally captures the human comedy in all its contradictions and nobility from the margins of Soviet society. This sense of the quotidian as a continuum of human experience, elegantly rendered in Omirbaev's recent film, The Road through Amir's recurring daydream of a mother milking a cow and her intrusive child (who, in turn, looks remarkably like Amir's own son) in rural Kazakhstan (an image that subsequently proves to be a catalytic historical memory from his childhood when man landed on the moon), can also be seen from the outset of Omirbaev's cinema through his incorporation of a decidedly Buñuelian sequence in the short film, July of a young boy who, while on the lookout for guards near the foothills of a kolkhoz commissary, curiously finds himself wandering into a recital hall where the performance of a young pianist is punctuated by the appearance of a horseman on the stage. Part pastoral observation on the pervasiveness of underdevelopment and the austerity of life in the rural villages of Soviet-era collective farms (and in particular, at the outlying frontiers of the Soviet Central Asia), and part autofiction on a pair of restless boys whose penchant for escapist (mis)adventures reveal a nascent, if displaced, creative sensibility, July establishes the aesthetic framework that would come to define Omirbaev's cinema: the overture of first love depicted through seemingly innocent - yet deliberate - passing touches (the bus encounter in Kaïrat, the movie house flirtation in July); the frustration of isolation inherent in a rural childhood manifested through acts of mischief (the opening sequence of Kaïrat, the courtyard fight of Kardiogramma), the subconscious act of self-reflection illustrated through literal self-reflection through the reflected image of a rear view mirror (Marat's drive home from the hospital in Killer, Amir's extended road trip to visit his ailing mother in The Road). Inevitably, what proves to be the most remarkable - and irresistible - aspect of Omirbaev's deceptively simple coming of age film is its ability to capture the interpenetration between reality and fiction interpenetrate with such seemingly effortless, uninhibited intimacy - a wide eyed innocence that hovers in the ephemeral - ever teetering between solemnity and absurdity, boredom and roguishness, anxiety and imagination.

在北京“漂”着的青年摄影师泉子夫妇与人合住一套两居室，可合租者搬来了半个月，泉子还没有见过她。 　　 　　妻子不满于泉子为了所谓的理想把生活搞得很窘迫，以爱上别人为由从家里搬走了。这时候，正赶上泉子的弟弟小东来北京投奔他。 　　 　　泉子到西藏拍一个广告片，邂逅女演员青青。在美丽的圣湖那木错，青青对泉子产生好感。 　　 　　回到北京，泉子发现青青竟然跟自己住在一套房子里。 　　 　　一边是青青的情感表白，一边是对妻子的怀念。泉子限入困苦和迷惘。偏偏在这时候，泉子的弟弟跟踪发现了嫂子的踪迹，用啤酒瓶砸破了嫂子上司/情人的头。 　　 　　弟弟从拘留所出来，伤感地离开了北京。 　　 　　青青失望于泉子在感情上的游移，也搬走了。泉子又回到了单身的状态。一切已经物是人非，生活似乎完全变化了，又似乎什么都没有改变。

在北京“漂”着的青年摄影师泉子夫妇与人合住一套两居室，可合租者搬来了半个月，泉子还没有见过她。 　　 　　妻子不满于泉子为了所谓的理想把生活搞得很窘迫，以爱上别人为由从家里搬走了。这时候，正赶上泉子的弟弟小东来北京投奔他。 　　 　　泉子到西藏拍一个广告片，邂逅女演员青青。在美丽的圣湖那木错，青青对泉子产生好感。 　　 　　回到北京，泉子发现青青竟然跟自己住在一套房子里。 　　 　　一边是青青的情感表白，一边是对妻子的怀念。泉子限入困苦和迷惘。偏偏在这时候，泉子的弟弟跟踪发现了嫂子的踪迹，用啤酒瓶砸破了嫂子上司/情人的头。 　　 　　弟弟从拘留所出来，伤感地离开了北京。 　　 　　青青失望于泉子在感情上的游移，也搬走了。泉子又回到了单身的状态。一切已经物是人非，生活似乎完全变化了，又似乎什么都没有改变。