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In some city down in the southwest of China, it was a muggy summer day chen yaochuan, a sophomore student, had to go through his first medical exam for pilot recruitment. but on that very same day, his older brother chen fujiang tragically ended his own life. right before chen yaochuan’s mock college entrance examination, his mom, zhou ying, insisted he go back to school and get ready for the tests. but when he returned, his teacher broke the news that he didn’t make the cut for the pilot program. so, chen yaochuan chose to study at home on his own accord.

In January 2020, the COVID-19 broke out, and life on the earth began to stagnate. Human clocks began to be disordered. Human joys and sorrows were not connected, and even the perception of time was completely different... The two heroes in the story had been in love for many years. Girls were studying in Britain, while boys were in China. During the epidemic, the two of them maintained a habit of remote communication, but found that their perception of time was vastly different - a girl quarantined at home in the UK felt the stagnation of time; And the boy, due to being in the center of the epidemic, felt a sense of crisis due to the unclear virus. He felt time break through, surging forward at full speed. The two of them began reading "The Order of Time", hoping to find some comfort in Einstein's theory of time relativity

In this absurd world, everyone is doing things in opposition to their heart, doing jobs they don’t want to do, hiding their passions, and hurting others to bury their pain. Ah Shui (Aqua) and Zhang Niao (Bird), a cross-dressing girl, get tangled up in each other’s worlds because of a green dot of light. This green dot becomes their guide, allowing them to meet in their dreams.

One night, two men meet in an abandoned building, and share their memories about early lives in their hometowns. They leave this building and continue to roam in the night, then they find themselves return back to the abandoned building: it looks more unfamiliar now, then it collapse down, then it's gone. They leave this place and pass by more ruins and finally reach to the edge of the city and arrive at a hill which is constructed by piled-up construction waste. On the top of the hill, they see the railway that leads to their hometown.

Having left Yunnan, his native city, Yu Zhao moved to Beijing, where he has lived for more than thirty years. Since his retirement, his only occupation has been helping his son in the house and looking after his grandson. When Yu Zhao returns to Yunnan with the intention of starting a new life, he finds that things, his relatives, friends and loves of the past are no longer the way he remembered them. Everything has become colder and more routine. The people he knew now have their own lives and the dream of a new love disappears too. Gradually Yu Zhao realises that Yunnan is no longer his true home, and he decides to return to Beijing.

On the day his grandparents are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Long finds evidence of his father's affair and reveals it to the family. Contrary to what he expected, exposing his father’s faults did not make things better, and further secrets will be unveiled, fragmenting the three generation family…

A girl came to a friend's house under the pretext of studying. For some reason, her mood was very uneasy. What she saw at her friend's house had other meanings and images in her mind, and this visit was also developing in a direction that she did not expect.

In 1948, two Korean soldiers from a Chinese People’s Liberation Army division flee Changchun during the Kuomintang–Communist civil war. Some 150,000 civilians died in this little-known siege, mostly by starvation due to the military blockade. The Jeju uprising of 1948 gradually seeps into the soldiers’ time and space. Notable for its extreme violence and casualties but long suppressed in official histories, it was a harbinger of the Korean War. Meanwhile, a famished scholar in Changchun returns in his mind to the May Fourth Movement of 1919.

Shot in 2005 and didn't finish until 2018. Caibin Yu wrote, directed and starred as the lead actor in this film, which was partly inspired by his true life events.

Xiao Xue is nineteen and lives in a town in northern China. During the day she works as a sales assistant in a fashion store. At night she accompanies her boss on his various social engagements and activities. She makes herself useful as a hostess when he invites his friends out, joining him on outings to karaoke bars and nightclubs. Xiao Xue sees all of this as an opportunity to improve her standard of living. But then, out of the blue, she falls pregnant and this changes her life in an unexpected way.

A rough wind is blowing between the dreary apartment blocks. In this world of adults, a rebellious boy struggles to find his way and encounters violence everywhere he turns. A portrait of a society in fragmented images.

In China a draught visits to a little town called Sahahyang in century. The villagers and their leader hold ritual for rain. Their desperate prayer gets an answer, but the answer is more than they’re hoping for. While they’re having a big party with a joy celebrating sweet rain, it turns into a flood. The leader loses his life while he tries to save his son, and the villagers are swept away by furious flood.

A boy, a question, a pack of lies, and a knock on a half-sister's door for the first time.

In 2013, in a small town in Guanzhong, a ten-year-old girl named Mimi was assigned to be a boy. In order to prove that she was a girl, she fought hard but almost made a big mistake.

The shrinking girl decides to call out the world.

This story is applicable to today's war-torn world: we have different skin colors but the same color soles and souls. Why can't we stand side by side on earth instead of trampling each other?

In Shanghai in 1920, Mr. Jin, who had been away from home for many years, accidentally met Misss Li, a singer from his same hometown. Mr. Jin fell in love with Miss Li at first sight. Little did they know that Miss Li actually had a secret...

An independent filmmaker meets Xiaojie at a LGBTQ event. She keeps following and recording Xiaojie's life, until she dies in an accident.

Liang Fei, a middle-aged man, rides a roller coaster for the first time in his life just before the city is locked down due to the pandemic. When he hears about a leopard that escaped from the zoo, he decides to test his own bravery.

The work reflects on the relationship between technology and us by constructing an advanced technological product from the future. This future product will replace people's worship and spiritual sustentation of the power of gods and Buddhas in religion with technology, turning the invisible into visible. This paper probes into the possibility and influence of the deification of technology in the future, and puts forward the solution of "love, nostalgia and nature" to relieve the pain caused by the excessive intervention of technology.

This is a story about the friendship between two girls. In the modern dance class, the beautiful and bold Ye Hong and the delicate and introverted Xiaomi are a pair of good friends. Xiaomi secretly falls in love with the handsome Yaming. They know that Yaming and Ye Hong used to be their first lovers. Yaming still loves Ye Hong, but Ye Hong falls in love with Shen Fang, a painter who has just been disappointed in love. Shen Fang was very indifferent to Ye. Ye Hong saw Yaming with Xiaomi and felt that she had been deceived by Xiaomi. Yaming told Xiaomi that he used to love Ye Hong, but now he loves Xiaomi. Xiaomi doesn't believe it and said...

Upon learning that her mother has been missing for years, An Yanzi sets foot on the homeland she parted long ago. She sells her inheritance and rekindles her relationship with her first girlfriend. The strange love poems in her mother’s secret diary lead her to believe that her mother once had a lover… The island is driving her mad, it is hurting her and has left a scar on the broken memory.

An urban tale of love and sacrifice set in a mysterious restaurant hidden in an alleyway. On a ordinary night, a man eats a lot of herbal plants in front of a woman, transforming himself into the woman's food.

Winter, Urban Villages in Beijing. Daqing is a fool, Daqing Family and three young people living in the courtyard together. Daqing always mends the sky on the roof, Laishun likes to stay on the roof and read books. Daqing’s dog has been barking. Xiaofei and Ajun couldn’t sleep.

A high school movie project from Beijing that tells the story of transgender girl Zhang Wangan.

In the vastness of the Himalayas, a young nomad’s curiosity lies beyond the horizon.

Shaojie wants to go to Shanghai to perform and his father is about to remarry. A huge misunterstanding is on its way. At the same time, the grandfather sees everything in his eyes.

When Roland Barthes visited China in 1973, he jotted down some notes that would become part of his Travels in China (Carnets du voyage en Chine), an underplot of desire in his imagination of the country. Barthes did not publish these writings during his lifetime. His unsettling judgments about China are refracted in Peng Zuqiang‘s work Sight Leak, as fragments of dialogues on class and looking. The local tourist in the film travels through different spaces and gatherings, seemingly never looking at anyone, yet silently looking at someone, turning towards a certain collectivity in spite of a foreign homoerotic gaze.