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The Yellow River Juvenile

The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her daughter to stop the film project. What they do not take into account is that Chen and her daughter lost contact long ago.

Eric, a former football star and now coach for a Chinese league team, ends up in a small village after being falsely accused of corruption. A young boy saves him from near death in the desert and requests that in exchange he coaches the local team and takes them to the junior cup final. At first only preoccupied by saving his reputation, Eric slowly comes around and rediscovers his passion for football thanks to the young players.

Chen is a dedicated social worker who has allowed her job to dominate her personal life. Inadvertently, she neglects her devoted husband Lo-Wei and their young son. Although he dislikes his wife's patients ("they're just street trash"), Lo-Wei is tolerant of his wife's workaholic situation and he takes the opportunity to develop a strong unity with his son, Chia-Pu. Then, Lo-Wei's sister offers to babysit the child while the parents respond to an emergency case. While they're gone, one of Chen's "delinquents" breaks into the house and rapes the sister. During the assault, baby Chia-Pu climbs out of the window and falls to his death. Lo-Wei is over-the-edge with grief. His brain snaps. He withdraws into himself, except at night when he stalks the "street trash," gruesomly killing them...

Hailan, a passionate off-road enthusiast, decides to join a cross-country race on the Wushen Grassland to escape the mounting pressure from her career and personal life. Through her interactions with local youth, she gains a deeper understanding of the Mongolian region, gradually discovering the true meaning of off-roading and of life itself. As Hailan begins to let go of her burdens, her spirit is renewed, she grows as a person, and she forms lasting friendships along the way.

Never Give Up

Hong Kong adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Macau hospital matron Mrs. Lo has four daughters. The peaceful existence of this family is suddenly shattered when a cable arrives from Borneo urging Mrs. Lo to join her ailing husband there immediately.

You. Have. Only. 72 Hours. A sudden collision in outer space caused a meteorite to head towards Earth and its impact will annihilate the whole mankind. In the sterile state of Singapore, any apology from the government is deemed irrelevant and for once its people are urge to go ahead and do whatever they want and leave behind no regrets. A newscaster decides to profess her secret love for her superior to her husband. A married man decides to tell his family that he actually wants to be a woman. An old cop shares with his subordinate that he had taken a bribe 20 years ago... But what if the world does not end? For the honest ones, it is their end of their previous world.

A fugitive and a street vendor form an unexpected, wordless bond after a pregnant woman is hit by a car in a chance encounter amid the indifferent hustle of urban life.

Sun Wukong and the group arrive at a monastery, where the Daoist lads offer Sangzang some ginseng fruits, shaped inexplicably like babies. Incensed he has not been offered one, Wukong steals three, and shares them with his brothers.

The film centres on a taxi driver who picks up a taciturn young girl with unsettling behaviour. What begins as a chance ride soon draws the driver and the mysterious stranger into a chain of events shrouded in doubt and suspicion, prompting audiences to reflect deeply on human nature, trust, and looming danger. Departing from conventional sentimental storytelling, the film adopts a suspense-driven narrative filled with twists. When the “suspect” gripping the steering wheel encounters a silent “enigma”, an accidental encounter becomes the light that pierces the darkest moments of their lives.

Taxi driver Xian Feng asks her husband Da Ming for a divorce. A legal technicality forces them to remain together.

The film follows the true life story of one of China's greatest composers, Xian Xinghai. The start of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941 made it difficult for Xian to return to China. He was stranded in Almaty, suffering poverty and sickness. Kazakh composer Bakhitzhan Baykadamov then helped Xian, providing him with a home, despite not knowing his true identity since Xian was then using an alias. There Xian put down roots and composed some of his most famous works.

The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.

It retains the reflection of the unique cultural atmosphere of southeast China in "Koali & Rice", whil at the same time the protagonist focuses on the elderly group again. It is a story of an old man who has been let down by the gods.

A humble noodle-maker in a remote Chinese province, Ermo feels that she's being taken for granted by family and friends. She decides the best way to impress them is to bring home the biggest, most expensive television set she can find - no matter how many noodles she has to peddle.

Her father's 80th birthday celebration tragically turned into a funeral, and the flood of family secrets that surfaced afterward stranded Li Zhiyan—already apprehensive about returning home—by her mother and two sisters.

In southern China, the demolition of a small village went quite well. Two kids happened to get an abandoned wood-carved earth God. The story went on like a metaphor when the kids walked a long way, trying to return it although the temples around have no interest in this wood-carved earth God. When back home, the kids were told this wood-carved earth God was worth the price of a can of coke. Finally, with an innocent heart, they bury the wood-carved earth God into the ground, praying for a better future for the land they are going to live with.

The reformed Zhao Hongbing returned to his hometown, and while running a "Xinxingyuan" restaurant with his comrade-in-arms Xiao Beijing, he was looking for Xiaolong, the son of his old friend. In the process of looking for Xiaolong, Zhao Hongbing met the barber Xiaojing due to a misunderstanding, and gradually became attached to each other in the process. Zhao Hongbing provoked Dahu because of taking in and taking care of Xiaolong, and Xiaolong's naughty also made people around him criticize Zhao Hongbing's behavior. All kinds of troubles also followed, overwhelming Zhao Hongbing, and the big tiger was also eyeing the "Xinxingyuan" hotel in the dark

This film uses the important process of "pattern making" in Chinese cheongsam craftsmanship as a medium to tell the story of a father and son living in a Beijing hutong. Their relationship is shaped by the inheritance of their craft, leading to many heartwarming and touching moments. Despite numerous challenges, the father and son ultimately unite their hearts to bring Chinese cheongsam to the world stage.

She smells her fragrance, she sees her talent... The ancient love story of Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua. The plight of these two women is told as they fall in love due to the admiration for each other's stunning beauty and literary craft. Adapted from the Kunqu opera & story by Li Yu, "Fragrant Companion/Lianxiang Companion", this short film includes a parallel between the play and "reality." The ending has been altered from the original play.

The story of the white snake has been told for a long time... Bai Suzhen has cultivated for thousands of years, only to be able to find Xuxian in the world.

Upon learning from the Empress that he has a son Tianxing, the King Muye sends his finest warrior Manshu to search for the heir. While the warrior is away from the palace, his own father stages a rebellion and seizes the throne.

Racer Lin Chuang admired his rival Liang Zi, a pungent and hearty beauty, and followed her in the desert off-road race. At night on the track, the supply station where everyone rested was attacked by a mysterious monster at night. After Lin Chuang and his companions escaped by chance, they determined to retrieve Liang Zi who had driven away alone. A group of people chased to an abandoned factory nearby and found that the wealthy businessman Xiong Kun and his men were exploring rare minerals here. The two forces gathered in the desert forbidden area and started a death expedition. The frenzied attack by unidentified creatures officially kicked off. The two teams suffered heavy casualties and were trapped in the factory. Finally, it was discovered that the giant monster that revealed its true face under the dust was the sand python that failed to be transformed by the underground laboratory.

On the day of the deadline to repay their loan, the order a small lingerie company was waiting for is unscrupulously replaced with an offer to buy out their company by the former boyfriend of the company's owner.

One script, two screenwriters, three revisions, four seasons change, five flavors mixed. According to legend, during the early years of the Ming Dynasty, General Chang Yuchun headed north with his army and established a campsite that later became known as "Chang Ying." Several hundred years later, a group of young people also stationed there, dreaming of becoming directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, and more. Among them were two screenwriters, Zhang Liao and Sun Tan. They wrote a movie script that they believed would go down in history and were determined to bring it to the big screen.

The movie "Hulunbeier City" is one of the Chinese ethnic minority film project to reflect and depict the Ewenke culture story film. The film tells the story of the northwest border of the Qing dynasty was repeatedly provoked by bandits, Hulunbuir Deputy Yatun Yamen sent Solon Department of soldiers to the northern Shaanxi and Gansu to make up the camp, completely eliminate the bandits, to pacify the border people.

Sexual mores and social stigmas are explored as secrets and lies are exposed in this tale where a disparate group of people suffer miscommunication and misunderstandings.

The story of the legendary folk female singer of Zhuang minority in Guangxi Autonomous Region.

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.

A rental house in Shanghai caught fire. Yu Shengnan, a female professor at the Medical University, found a woman's body very suspicious, so he quickly called the chief inspector Zhong and his partner Han Fei. After preliminary autopsy and on-site investigation, Katsuo and Zhong Lang concluded that the deceased was murdered before the fire...

A boy tries his best to make progress in all courses because that is the qualification of school martial arts team.

A recently graduated and intelligent young woman sees plastic surgery as essential to succeeding in both her career and romantic aspirations.

Talented performer Zhang Chong has been secretly in love with the school beauty Xiaoxia for more than ten years, but because she is the girlfriend of his younger brother Lan Kai, he can only keep his true love deep in his heart. The day before graduation, Lan Kai finds Zhang Chong and mysteriously asks him to help him come up with an excuse: tell Xiaoxia that he wants to break up!

Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his lover/partner Liu Lanlan performing a saucy, bawdy form of musical duet comedy. Er’s female audiences are particularly enthralled with his combination of sensuality, Rabelaisian earthiness, and frankly socially subversive lyrics.

The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, where he worked as a dishwasher in the restaurant of a family from his hometown back in Fujian province. After two years in the States and after fathering an illegitimate child there named Fusheng, the child's mother Xuhui who is the restaurateur's daughter, he was deported back to China. Since, he has been floundering in life, which has caused a rift between himself and his older brother, who, with his wife, operate a street front diner and can't have children of their own. Little Brother relies on his new girlfriend, a woman he barely knows named Wu Ruifang who is a performer in a touring opera troupe, for emotional support. Despite Little Brother being the local poster boy for not stowing away, his friend named Monkey tried to do the same, but died on the voyage over due to exposure to toxic ..

A young graduate from the school of agriculture tries to modernize his poor village.