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A blind athlete has to conquer his fear of darkness with the help of his coach.

In the second year of Yongle, Emperor Zhu Di wanted to open the sea ban and revive the shipping route. Unexpectedly, the first batch of envoys to the South Seas did not return by the due date. When the envoys disappeared, rumors began to spread, so Zhu Di sent Zheng He, an official eunuch, to the West China Sea to find out the truth about the envoys' disappearance, and to build up a good relationship with all the countries along the way to revive the sea trade.

The film opens with a travelogue, showcasing West Lake and the real Mainland Chinese locations used by the film to which only the Left Wing of Hong Kong Cinema had access to at the time. The title character is a young woman raised by her courtesan aunt in the West Lake scenic resort area in Hangzhou. Siu Siu is perused by a local Official, but falls in love with the son of the Prime Minister. They marry, but are separated by the Prime Minister who arranges another marriage for the son. Siu Siu remains at West Lake, where she regretfully uses the desire of the earlier Official to help another of the girls find happiness.

Plot TBA. Grounded in a historical setting, the film weaves together action, drama and character-focused narrative, with both companies aiming to deliver a production of international scale built on distinctly Asian storytelling.

The life and story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War.

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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

The unrelenting reality of the homeland awakens Chen Zhen's fearless spirit.

Outside the mass burial mound of Lanruo Temple, the female ghost Nie Xiaoyan and the female ghost Haitang are both subordinates of the tree demon Kongcheng. They serve Kongcheng together and fight against the demon catcher Yan Nantian. Guarding each other, unexpectedly, after Nie Xiaoyan met the scholar Fu Qingzhu, all this changed, and a life-and-death love triangle struggle intensified.

It tells a legendary story about a bandit who is an official during the day and a thief at night.

5 channel video installation, HD colour with sound, 12'00-15'48". Music by Wang Wenwei. With a haunting lyricism and dreamlike narrative, The Coloured Sky: New Women II examines the secret desires and anxieties of young women as they come of age. The work captures a journey that has on one hand ended and on the other has barely begun. The ingenues, teetering on the brink of womanhood, frolic self-consciously in an artificially staged beach scene, aware of their burgeoning sexuality and its underlying power. The shadow of China's historic system of concubinage hangs over these contemporary scenes, as the idealized beauties negotiate a new social milieu in which future prospects hinge on appearance and the cultivation of male fantasy.

On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup in Shanghai, carrying out a brutal massacre of Communist Party members and revolutionary masses, which led to the collapse of the First United Front between the Kuomintang and the Communists. In response, the Communist Party led the Tingpang Uprising, marking the beginning of a large-scale revolutionary movement in eastern Zhejiang. It was soon besieged by the Nationalist provincial defense forces, and Bao Ding led the crowd in a fierce battle against the enemy at Hulongtou.

The court of the Qing tries intercept funds being sent by overseas Chinese over the border to revolutionaries.

The story tells of the late Party Secretary Yan Shenglian, who, in the context of the new era, deeply implemented rural revitalization and led the villagers on a solid path to rural development.

A musical adaptation of 'Dream of the Red Chamber'

A 2D animated short film based on a fictionalized version of the history of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

In 139 BС Zhang Qian, official ambassador of Han Empire, led a diplomatic mission of more than 100 people to the Western Regions. One day Zhang and his guide Tang Yi were surveying a map as usual, but unexpectedly intercepted by the Huns on the way. The Huns captured prisoners for ten years, but it was only beginning of legendary Han expedition.

Set in the late Qing Dynasty, the film tells the story of a violent invasion led by the foreign warlord Wazuozhuo, who seeks to destabilize and divide Xinjiang. As unrest spreads, the people of the borderlands—ethnic groups of all backgrounds—join forces with the Qing army. In a fierce and desperate struggle, they fight valiantly to transport supplies and repel the invaders.

In the Japanese war, a village on the edge of Chinese-controlled territory faces constant attacks. The leaders and the people of the village and other nearby villages join together to form a militia and plant land-mines to halt the Japanese.

Based on the first dance drama in China to center itself on revolutionary themes, this famous piece of Chinese media history was adapted for the screen in 1961.

Who knew that Communism could be so funny? This madcap documentary reexamines the Cultural Revolution and restores the once bright reputation of Mao Zedong. "The Passion of the Mao" begins by correcting misconceptions about Mao's early years. Unlike the tyrants with whom he is usually compared, Mao was a successful scholar and businessman before he became a rabble-rouser.

Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its consequences beyond it. Born into a family that supports the nationalist Kuomintang, Zhang eventually became a leftist and joined the Communist Party. But his family’s background eventually catches up with him, and in a series of bureaucratic measures, he is labelled as a Rightist, leading to a slew of irrational yet life-affecting consequences. His story is told through an exhilarating hybrid of forms, blending documentary-styled interviews and spectral theatrical displays within an ever-mutating studio-space. Hypnagogic in its imagery and ironic in attitude, Mr. Zhang Believes is a tour-de-force treatise of a man caught within dogmatic political maneuverings, which it critiques indirectly with creative and stoic fervour.

Dramatization of the life of blind musician ABing (Huà Yànjūn).