The Promised Land

Ling Ai (Wang Jiajia, from Wheat and the recent domestic hit So Young) is a ballet dancer. He Jiang (Zhang Yi, also at the Festival in Mountains May Depart) is a hockey player. Both are young, ambitious, and, in their pursuit of careers imported from the West, emblematic of the new China. They're bound to come together, and He finds delightful ways to show the growing romance — one scene that shows the two flirting in adjacent rooms is a clever update on screwball-comedy convention. (Toronto International Film Festival)