Yu Ailei

A guilt-ridden boxer puts his gloves on one last time to pay for a girl's expensive heart surgery.

An act of communal restoration lies at the heart of this tragicomic epic from Zhang Yimou, a film which shares a spiritual kinship with the nostalgic classic Cinema Paradiso. A visually ravishing tale of triumph over adversity, One Second is a bittersweet ode to the magic of the silver screen.

Zhang Zili wasn't always a badly paid security guard. He was once one of the best detectives on the police force. That is until injuries sustained during an investigation into a gruesome and unsolved murder case forced him into early retirement. That was five years ago and the killings have started again.

After his real-life fight with debt collectors goes viral, a washed-up stuntman gets a second chance with his career and estranged daughter.