Mingjie Li

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Sunnie

Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Esther

During a brief trip home, a second-generation Chinese American woman and her first-gen mother find their differing cultural ideals clashing.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Wang

1950s New York. After immigrating from Shanghai to Upstate New York for more than a decade, the traditional and Chinese-at-heart Mrs. Wang finds herself slowly drifting apart from her Americanized husband and teenage daughter.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Meiru

A woman tries to capture the difficulties of caring for her ailing husband in a series of letters to her daughter—letters she can never send, as her husband refuses to tell anyone, especially their daughter, of his illness.

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Fang (Mom)

On a humid afternoon, Lin Mingming, an eight-year-old girl, gets caught between her parents' quarrel. The career pursuit and ordinary life heavily burden this family with the imbalance and struggle between parent-child relationship and personal value. The exhausted, impatient, and disappointed parents seem strange to their daughter. "ufo:pm" presents the struggle and imbalance between three ordinary family members' daily lives and their individual willingness: a daughter that doesn't fit into the behaved and polite stereotype, a mother that struggles to sacrifice her own career pursuit and compromises to the family, a father that carries the financial burden and strives to obtain success. This could not be more common in every Chinese household. The three personalities collide on a dining table.