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This film is a rural inspirational comedy, telling the story of retired athlete Xiao Li, led by his father, to lead the village girl football team to win the game and save the school. The film shows people's affection, love, teacher-student relationship and other moving friendships in the common struggle for a better life, and expresses the ideological connotation of working hard to get a good life.

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A young couple has recently purchased their dream house and are expecting a baby. One day, while his wife is out, an ex-girlfriend arrives at the door drenched from rain. She had heard of his wife's pregnancy and had only come to sell the couple insurance. The husband allows her to take a shower in his home. Suddenly, his in-laws arrive at the home unexpectedly, and he must find a way to get his ex-girlfriend out of the home without his in-laws noticing and before his wife comes home.

Based on Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China"

Provincial singer Xiao Lan, facing pain and harassment from her boyfriend, leaves Chengdu for Shifang City to induce labor. When an earthquake strikes, the hospital moves pregnant women to Luohan Temple, turning it into a makeshift maternity home. Amid the disaster, Xiao Lan experiences the emotional and physical challenges of survival, testing the limits of humanity.

Rong, living in a small town in the south of China, is a pedicure therapist who has never gotten married. She has a brother named Xiaodong , who is 14 years younger. Xiaodong is almost 18 years old, instead of working he plays video games all day long, but after going through a series of things he finally becomes independent. And Seeing this, Rong returned to her hometown in the northeast of China, and went to the police station, confessing that she killed a person 19 years ago. However,the following development of the matter is going to be out of Rong's expectation.

Burial Rites become the mise-en scene in which politicians, the media, a monk and an infuriated neighbour vividly portray the aftermath of an accident.

Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)

Set against the backdrop of the Eight-Nation Alliance’s invasion of China, the film follows Zhao Ting, founder of Beijing’s cloth shoe brand “Neiliansheng.” Through hardship and resilience, Zhao rises from repeated setbacks to pioneer early database-style marketing in China’s footwear trade. In building Neiliansheng into a national brand, he also navigates complex emotions—expressing unrequited love for Xiaocui while ultimately winning the heart of Xiaoyun.

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.

Taking place during the period of the Three Kingdoms, 220 A.D., a story about the relationship between the emperor Cao Pi, his first wife Zhen, and his brother Cao Zhi. Zhen falls for Cao Zhi, and upon discovering this disloyalty, Cao Pi orders the execution of Zhen, and the banishment of his brother Cao Zhi.

The first short film by Chinese sixth generation filmmaker Hu Xueyang.

A traitor betrays the anti-Qing forces.

A story of the upheavals and changes in Chinese society from the 1960s to 1980s, set in the hutong alleyways of Beijing.

During the tumultuous period at the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu led the Zhou forces to attack the Shang Dynasty. After several clashes, the Shang Dynasty found themselves retreating as they faced the relentless assaults of the Zhou military commander Yang Jian. King Zhou of Shang was furious and sought a way to counter Yang Jian's influence, offering substantial rewards. However, the strategist Shen Gongbao advised against it and suggested recruiting skilled leaders. The plan was to bring the Meishan Seven Heroes into the fold.

Xiao Mau falls in love with Wu Si Cong the minute he meets him at a friends birthday party. He does everything he can to try to win Wu Si Cong over, only problem is that Wu Si Cong is a married man.

The film was shot in 2003 during the SARS period. Completed by one shot, including opening and closing credits. Unlike other long-take films, the technical content of this film is close to zero. As a "drama film" performed by actors, the emptiness of its plot is unprecedented. One of the two leads even fell asleep during the performance. Every ten years, I would seriously remake this absolutely incompetent film. So, this is both my first "movie" and will be my last "movie".

An immigrant artist in Iowa retreats to frozen prairies, forests, and swamps, trying to find a meaningful story and escape from the anxieties of dislocation. Delivered as a film-letter to the protagonist’s little sister in rural China, the film considers his self-exile as well as mental health struggles that were too shameful to address back home.

Taking advantage of the holiday, He Yunian secretly returns to Beijing to meet his girlfriend Li Ran without telling his parents. Their long-awaited reunion should be full of joy, yet he digs up old memories between them to gather material for his writing. As they spend time together and pour out the thoughts they have long kept to themselves, both realize they have been evading numerous real-life issues that demand to be resolved at once.

In the borderlands of farming and herding in northern China, a Mongolian horse awaits the fate of castration, while a 10-year-old boy, determined to protect it, must confront violence and cruelty beyond his understanding.

One summer day in Beijing, a female college student named Dudu is suddenly overcome by an inexplicable restlessness during a photo shoot. At a blind date arranged by her elders, she feels that the good upbringing instilled in her over more than a decade has come to suppress the passions within. She flees the crowd, only to find herself trapped in isolation. All that confronts her is the sound of a bicycle chain grinding against its chain guard. Amid the daily routines of washing her hands and face, life quietly slips away through her fingers.

A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her further inhibits any impulse to go it alone.

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on 35mm film.

The seventh immortal sister flies down to the mortal world and marries Dong Yong until the Jade Emperor obliges her to return to her world.

Wang Xiao Mo is a rich family master born with a golden spoon. He was sent abroad for further study of art design at a young age. After returning from school, Wang Xiao Mo entered the company and hoped to find a piece in his post. Your own world. However, what Wang Xiao Mo did not think was that he was assigned to the side of the old model worker, whose main job was to take care of his diet. The long-term workmanship is quirky and demanding. There is no less difficulty in Wang Xiao Mo on weekdays. However, in the process of getting along, Wang Xiao Mo discovered that the long-lost and indifferent appearance hides a heart-warming heart. The long-term workers also have a feeling of trust in Wang Xiao Mo, who is not patient and kind. Wang Xiao Mo has a strong curiosity about the past of the long-term work. In the meantime, the love story between the long-time worker and the technician Xue Ya Lan gradually surfaced. (Source: Douban)

In an arctic village in the north of China, an elderly woman awaits the return of her deceased father – the rhythmic tapping of her fingers echoes the hooves of his horse when he rode off to war. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, Wang Hanxuan's directorial debut finds unshakable confidence in the loving bond between father and daughter.

Bai Yutang, nicknamed "Sleek Rat", is a Song dynasty knight-errant from the 19th-century Chinese novel The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants. During the peace talks between the Imperial Court and the Western Regions the four princes from the first batallion publicly paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, but they were suddenly attacked by a group of "stray wolves". Was it the revenge of the Western Regions, the instigation of the Lord and the faction, or other mysterious forces that took the opportunity to make trouble? Bai Yutang was ordered to investigate the case of "Dare Maneater Wolf". With the help of his friend Yu Mo, he quickly discovered the truth of the so-called "Dare Maneater Wolf". They were all controlled by puppetry.

The main characters are two youngsters of China's Mongolian nationality, Temur and his younger sister Schin, whose fine revolutionary qualities - courage, tenacity and wholehearted devotion to the public interests - are highlighted in the dance-drama.

A stifling summer day. A small town in China, where everything feels stagnant. Middle school dropouts Cheng (14), Zhang(14), and Li(13), each burdened by their own troubles, hatch a plan to escape the town. Broke and desperate, they wander around the streets, looking for ways to "make money." Eventually, they set out on a reckless robbery, and what begins as an ordinary day ends violently... The film follows them through this oppressive day, delving into the dark corners of adolescence. Their acts are brutal, yet they themselves are brutalized by a world indifferent to their struggles.

One night, Zhou Jun took a taxi. During his stay in the taxi, he told the driver about the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, wife and son. When the mystery was to be solved, the driver threw Zhou Jun into a bigger mystery.

On his trip to the village, Wong meets a Tibetan girl, De Lan. He later finds that De Lan is married to Rigchin. One day, a young Tibetan man arrives with a woman, and De Lan starts crying. How many lovers does De Lan have? When Rigchin hints Wong that he doesn't mind he joining them, Wong is lost...

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek stepped up efforts to eliminate dissidents, and first targeted Long Yun, who was in power in Yunnan and had progressive ideas.

The movie is about a group of ‘floaters’ in Beijing ?people who live and work in Beijing but are not native residents. It is rare for a Beijing floater to have a fixed home, as they move from place to place according to their job requirements. Many Beijing floaters do not feel a sense of belonging. The movie tells the story of Yu Xiaobao, a floater who is trying to hide the reality of his struggling life from his daughter who still lives in their hometown. As a result, he tells her that he has become a film director. When his daughter suddenly decides to visit him, he enlists the help of his other floater friends to put on a show so that she does not find out the truth.

Qiu Shi, from a small town in Jiangnan, strives to overcome personal challenges and resolve a deep regret. As her fiancé Qingyun returns from afar, their relationship begins to shift. Meanwhile, her supportive senior brother Yincheng helps her in unexpected ways. Beneath the surface, both men hide emotions that complicate their connections with her.

Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.

At Singapore International Airport, Hong Kong native Dabao meets Huihui by chance, who is on her way to Shanghai. In fact, she is a rich girl on the run from an engagement to wealthy boyfriend Jiafei. When they arrive in Shanghai, Huihui promptly asks Dabao to act as her guide in the big city. For the first day they live a life of luxury ... until Huihui discovers that she's mislaid her purse. They go to the very ordinary house of Dabao's friend Kang, asking for a place to stay. Kang lives with his girlfriend Lebei, quarreling from time to time, but when the household grows to four, love blooms for everyone.