Adrien Brody, 51, is the only actor under 30 to have won the Academy Award in the actor in leading role category, a record he's maintained since 2003.

First-time director Jing Yi sets his feature in the northern province of Xinjiang, in a remote community just across the border from Kazakhstan.

“All my life, men have tried to put their beastly hands on me,” she confesses to Alonzo backstage, amid the sawdust and ...