Discover Movies

The buddhist sutra educational film, 'The Shurangama Righteousness', was produced by the Shi-Fang Leng Yan Academy of Rui Ji Si Monastery in Fujian, China. Made in 2015 -2017, the film is based on the chinese Mahayana buddhist text, the 'Sutra of the Foremost Shurangama'. It opens with the transmission of the Sutra from India to China by the Elder Monk, Master Paramiti, during the Tang Dynasty, and its translation from sanskrit to chinese at a monastery in Guangzhou, China. The translators' dialogue in the film forms the narrative backdrop for unfolding the story of Ananda's predicament involving a Matanga woman, how he was later rescued by the Buddha with the power of the Shurangama Mantra, and Buddha instructing on the way to ulimate enlightenment (First chapter of the Sutra)...

The bride, Qin Xiu'er, died suddenly in the candlelight night of the bridal chamber, and a beautiful head disappeared. Is it murder on earth, or is it carried by ghosts? Confusing and confusing... Husband Zhao Ye loves his wife deeply, vowing to find his wife's head. Adapted from the short story "The Mysterious Head" of the novel "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio".

CG Animation Short Film "The Legend of Shangri-la" is adapted from the poem of the same title by the famous poet Tao Yuan Ming of Dong Jin Dynasty over 1000 years ago. By applying Chinese traditional painting techniques and papercutting to CG, IDMT created this unique animation film with the style and movement of Shan-Xi shadow puppet show. The combination results in this original 3D CG short film with its unique visual style. It tranquilly depicts Peach Blossom Valley (known to the western culture as Shangri-La), the earthly paradise, in Dong Jin people's mind and their desire to return to happy and harmonic life.

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was close friends with two boys and a girl. They fought with local youngsters and tried to give each other pep talks. Parallels with the childhood years of his parents, during the Cultural Revolution, also show violence and gun battles. Semi-autobiographical, with motion capture.

Shot in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this documentary follows a young sex worker in a Beijing massage parlour. Aifeng, like so many other migrant workers in modern China, is struggling to support her family back home. When the shop is forced to close and she loses her job, Aifeng faces her biggest challenge yet.

This movie is born out of the classic chapter of Liao Zhai, adding many details, the most important of which is the appearance of the three monsters. The appearance of the old black mountain monster, the snake monster and the scorpion monster adds a lot of fighting scenes to this work. Guo Xin Yan's battle with these three demons is undoubtedly the most exciting. However, the increase of these scenes will not make the main line-the love story between Ning Cai Chen and Nie Xiao Qian disgraced, on the contrary, this numerous obstacles can highlight the two people's unswerving death. Although it is no longer separated by heaven and man, it is a ladyboy who has a different route. Whether the sadistic love between Nie Xiao Qian and Ning Cai Chen, played by Guo Xin Yan, can blossom or not is still the biggest attraction of the film.

In the 13th year of the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty issued a decree. Open the pagoda in Famen Temple where the finger bone relic of Sakyamuni Buddha is enshrined, and take the relic to Chang'an for enshrinement.

A young Kongfu master falls into the trap of an evil old spirit who enslaves dead little girls drowned by their own parents.

On a rainy night, a picture falls from a wall and a merchant is concerned about his braid, asking a barber to reattach it.

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.