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An anthology film of seven short films made during the Training Camp of FIRST Film Festival 2021.

A confidential research project on "Time Capsule", which was in crisis due to theft of energy blocks, triggered a series of time and space crossing accidents. The modern man Su Baoyin accidentally came into contact with the energy block that resembled a cell phone, which flowed between the ancient worlds of different time and space and the 21st century modern world. The beauty beauty King Huo Jing and his two followers were also accidentally involved in the black hole of space time Break into modern times. The three generals who called the wind and rain in the ancient times entered the completely new modern world and fell into laughter and laughed. Back to the modern age, while Su Baoyin missed the lord, he met the handsome and wise police officer Sun. What kind of conspiracy is hidden behind this? When justice triumphs over evil, when everything ends, Su Baoyin returns to her original point, and meets her lover again, but she has become a stranger.

The story is set in a small village in South-Eastern China, during the Cultural Revolution. A teenager is bored and spends most of his time hanging around in the street. An old man, a widower, earns his money making artistic paper shapes of people, animals, vehicles, and other things. It is an old custom to burn these pieces of paper as a sacrifice to the dead — but in the years of the Cultural Revolution, this was regarded as superstition, and banned. The old man uses dazibao, propaganda posters, and secretly makes them into figures that should be burnt on his death. One day, the teenager accompanies the old man to his house and finds out the old man's secret. A bond ensues between the two. The boy finds out that the man once had a daughter, Qingqing, who was hit in the forties by a stray bullet. Since then, he has always dreamt about the beauty of Qingqing.

The palace painter Lu Jiuqing accidentally used a magic brush to open up the world in the painting, and met Yan Ge, the grass and tree spirit. The faces of women in the city were destroyed one after another. In order to find out the truth, the two entered the tomb of life and death. The demon king peeled off the skins of the plant elves, and Yan Ge, who had lost her beauty, turned into a ferocious withered branch. A test of skin and sincerity was placed in front of Lu Jiuqing.

In the capital city of Beijing, there is a special group who are affectionately called "alley housekeepers" by the people. The "alley housekeeper" is not a leader, but in their heart they wear all things of the neighborhood. There are many problems directly related to the common people, such as neighbourhood disputes, parking on roads, private construction, public toilet renovation, environmental improvement, and caring for the empty-nest elderly.

Based on a classic chinese novel by Luo Guanzhong.

This film tells the story of a lost man who finds himself again. A former rock singer, twenty years later is an ordinary chauffeur driver. The passion of the past cannot be seen. Like most of his peers in reality, he is deeply trapped in the busy world.

The Cabin is a modern-day film about spiritual warfare telling the story of how one man courageously waged war against his personal demons. This suspenseful thriller shows the spiritual battlefield we all face each and every day.

Lou Ye's student work during his study in Beijing Film Academy.

Lao Yang is not "a good father" in Chinese traditional way although he's already in his 60s. His wealth has been through ups and downs ferociously. His business went bankrupt years ago. Luckily, his three children are all grown up and have their own family. Lao Yang spends his days between taking care of his bedridden wife, keeping a mistress, collecting debts and gambling with mahjong. Conflicts between Lao Yang and his children escalate.

650 AD. Second year of Emperor Gaozong's reign. Several corpses were found in the ninth-floor demon building in Liangzhou Prefecture of Western Regions. A mysterious force constantly dominates this terrifying forbidden place.

As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to give a speech about her family at the Parent's Meeting tonight. But after Lin finds out that she shares the same secret with a mischievous classmate, she starts to have second thoughts.

Han Bin, an elite private bodyguard, failed in his mission to protect the Sherry's family. As a result of that, her whole family was brutally killed, and the high-tech biotechnology capsule researched by the head of it, was lost. After that, Han Bin decided to quit his job and soon disappeared. However, his old partner convinces him to return to his profession and a peculiar dropped case, since they've recently found a possible suspect of the tragedy - a girl named An Ji.

The year is 1957. An army general's wife gives up the conveniences of an urban existence to follow her husband, Gan Zuchang, to his native place－an impoverished village in East China's Jiangxi province. The couple begin life afresh there as farmers and aid the impoverished villagers.

Continuing from the first Jane Bond film, Black Rose (1965), Mei-yu and Mei-yu infiltrate the underground group of Golden Yanluo (Chinese: Judge of the Underworld) to save Man-fu and Nanny back.

Director Liu Jiayin casts her parents and herself as fictionalized members of a Beijing family that has fallen on hard times and ekes out an existence by making bags out of oxhide for sale.

A journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on.

The night before Bei Qi's wedding, a group of friends play a card game involving truth-telling and ghosts.

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an unpredictable, peculiar and incredible journey.

A car accident three years ago changed the fate of everyone. With the release of the perpetrators of the car accident, all parties have to face the cruel truth and examine their own hearts. Revenge or redemption? Kindness or Greed? Their choices will decide their humanity.

A young woman Shan Fei, who has worked hard for her job in a distant city far away from her hometown, gradually neglects her loved ones in the midst of her struggle in the workplace. One day she suddenly receives the news that her mother Fang Wenzhi is seriously ill

After the death of his wife, a taxi driver, Hoon, struggles to provide for himself and his daughter, Mei, during the COVID-19 pandemic. He chooses to turn his taxi into a mobile brothel so he can give his daughter a better life. One life-changing moment forces him to re-consider his choice.

When Ada was young, he was a man of the school and the legendary leader of the Scout regiment. But with the squeeze of life, marriage and childbirth, and business trips, he unknowingly became a Kafka who was stuck in the future and stuck in the future. 　　 Facing the low tide of his career and the heavy pressure of the second child, he lost the opportunity to dream again. Suddenly, Ada remembered the appointment he had made with his first love in high school. He regretted that he missed the appointment, so Ada embarked on a journey of pioneering a midlife crisis. The film won the Silver Award at the China-Korea Film Festival.

Sachiko and Ming are living together, perhaps they are a couple. They discuss everyday things, slip into different roles and thus tell each other about their relationship.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu, an imperial envoy, braved the hardships of destructed opium in Humen, and actively and forcefully faced foreign invaders to arouse the patriotism of the Chinese nation.

Adapted from the true story of Liu Jinyuan, a young disabled man from Changjiang Village, Guangxi. Yang Luyuan lost one of his palms in an accident in his childhood, but he is a disabled man with a strong will and self-reliance. After many painful failures, Yang Luyuan leads his hometown people to raise sheep to become rich and create a better and happier life. This film has been selected for the 2021 National Radio and Television Administration Network Audiovisual Programme Excellence Creation and Dissemination Project, and the 2022 Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Broadcasting and Television Bureau Key Network Audiovisual Selection.

Between Song and Qi, Zhang Yongxun escorted the little princess Zhao Yuhuan, escaped the pursuit of Qi's eagle dogs, and entered the inn by mistake. In order to protect the princess, Jia Youcai, Banniang Jiang Xueer and Dong Yi worked together to protect the princess and embarked on the road to Jiangnan. Along the way, they faced the pursuit of Qi's eagle dogs. Let Jiang Xueer and Jia Youcai understand what a hero is. The three went through layers of obstacles and finally escorted the princess to Lin'an safely.

A young lady comes to Lhasa alone for pilgrimage, but a "multicolored magical lobster" enshrined by other people has totally changed her plan. She made a decision to take the lobster home to the ocean, and this set her and the lobster on the journey cross half of China. During her journey, she comes cross many interesting characters and experiences. At the same time, memories, dreams, and hallucinations emerged intermittently. The journey to set the lobster free came to an end in an unexpected way. She finally reached the most secret place in her heart.

On the isolated grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a shepherdess adopts an orphan from the city. Years later after the boy has left to serve in the air force, a well-intentioned white lie gives the elderly shepherdess hope of seeing her adopted son one last time.

Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts, and Chen Zongjie, a leader of the Party Committee of the Bureau of Foreign Transport, believes that the quality is not sufficient, and orders that the parts be replaced with imported ones before the sea trial takes place. In the end, the sea trial not only sets a successful new record, but also rescues a Taiwanese fishing boat in distress.

This 2013 film is set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Guo Chunyuan, a traditional Chinese herbalist, is compelled by the Japanese to heal the daughter of a local commander's arm. The movie explores debates of modernity and self-strengthening that were occurring within China at the time through the protagonist, Guo Chunyuan