The Flowers of War — China
An American mortician takes refuge in a Nanjing church with a group of courtesans and convent girls as Japanese troops enter the city — forced to act in place of a dead priest.
John Rabe's Safety Zone and several Nanjing churches sheltered tens of thousands of Chinese civilians during the 1937 massacre. The film is inspired by the memoir of Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary who sheltered 10,000 women and girls at Ginling Girls' College. Zhang Yimou's film depicts the sacrifice of ordinary people protecting the most vulnerable in the city's final days.