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"Earth Summit Mission" is the first 4K documentary recording a scientific expedition. The 60-minute Earth Summit Mission documentary is a record of the second Chinese scientific expedition to Mount Qomolangma which took place in the summer of 2022. It involved around 200 scientists, led by Yao Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the course of the expedition, the scientists set a number of records, from collecting ice and snow samples from the highest point on Earth and setting up the world’s highest weather station, to sending up an observation aerostat to an altitude of over 9,000 meters.

This documentary records the journey of Zhang Xianchi from a communist Chinese soldier to a prisoner and a writer of independent mind, in some ways just like Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer. Mr. Zhang’s book, The Anecdotes of Gelagu, takes us to China’s gulag---a Sichuan laogai camp. The book details an unknown and atrocious episode of history, allowing us to witness human nature under extreme circumstances.

After studying abroad in Cape Town, a young filmmaker returns to Chongqing, navigating the complexity of modern life in China and fragile family ties, where grief, memory, and longing surface amid distance, silence, and change.

A personal film about my past 22 years, pieced together using all kinds of SD, HD, 4K, film materials.

At Tsinghua University's campus, four people are standing at the intersection of their lives. Among them, there are those who just passed the college entrance examination, the first-generation of post-00 college students who entered their favorite universities with twists and turns , some are leaving their ivory towers, PhD graduates facing difficult choices and some have returned from the United States to enter Tsinghua University. Young teachers are full of "viewing the sky" ideal but face challenges, there are old academicians who still stand behind lectern after their retirement. The film tells the life ideals of the four Tsinghua people and the eternal youth that belongs to this university behind them.

Ge Ningning performs a series of solo dances.

Sydney-based New Zealander Peter O’Donoghue shot, directed and edited this ambivalent, entertaining picture of senior calisthenics and other recreational activity in the leafy public parks of Shanghai and Beijing.

The documentary project follows the young students of a small daoist kung fu school in Wudang, China. The documentary focuses on their daily life and training, and the viewer also gets to join them on their performance trips.

A propaganda documentary on Sino-France Diplomatic Relations, started from the stories behind 1958 film “The Magic of the Kite”.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's first feature film. Our Love is a half-documentary, half-narrative telling the stories of Xiang Xiang, Ping Er and Raorao. Xiang Xiang is pretty and attractive, Ping Er smart and funny, Raorao honest and passionate. Physically speaking, they are male; but psychologically they are not. Issues such as homosexuality, transsexuality, and cross-dress are all touched upon in the film. Those who are different from heterosexual people are by no means perverts; their presence throws light on the ignored violence which has been taken for granted in the heterosexual world.

a documentary series created by Jia Zhangke, with 10 short films about 10 leading figures in various industries in China, exploring the stories of China's decade. Won the Gold Award at China Marketing Awards

Documentary made for Oriental Time • Living Space program on Ma Yun (Jack Ma) trying to sell The Chinese yellow pages in Beijing.

The story of a girl attempted suicide for love and finally returned to religion.

In 1978 Deng Xiaoping set up Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in China, and this decision led to the rapid development of Guangdong economy. Numerous factories have been established, millions of people are attracted because of gold rush. Over 30 years later, young people who were away from their home have already stepped in the midlife. Guangdong has become a representative of job hunting and has been drawing a newly young generation who has faith and uncertainty to the future. This video revolves around three working-class boys who are the 90s generation.

The grey mullet is known for its roe, a beloved delicacy in Taiwan. Every year around the winter solstice, schools of grey mullet migrate south to spawn. When the cold current hits Taiwan, so comes the grey mullet. In order to catch the precious ‘black gold’ at dawn, local fishermen set out in the thick mist and follow the mullet in the dark. This documentary focuses on the mullet industry and captures the 300-year-old tradition of mullet fishing.

Contemporary art has become a trend for young people in China. Young artists often organize activities in the form of art groups or small groups — but this is not only looked down on by the government, but is also subject to punishments and restrictions. This film documents a gathering of more than 200 artists in Nanjing, all from different regions of China, who to engage in a modern art activity titled "Bask in the sunshine."

A "city symphony" full of dark humor that weaves together a collage of absurd sounds and events.

The first documentary of the "Chinese Architectural Heritage Trilogy" directed by Ju Anqi. It focuses on the conservation and revitalization of architectural heritage in Chinese metropolitan cities. Over the past two years, Ju Anqi has interviewed more than 80 internationally acclaimed architects, experts, scholars, and practitioners with successful experience in architectural revitalization. He filmed the current protection and revitalization of old Chinese buildings with an artistic style. With 300,000 words of interviews and 3000 hours of footage, Building is by far the largest visual record on the issue of architectural heritage conservation during the rapid urbanization in China.

Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this film can be regarded as a kind of "story follow-up" version of "Because of Hunger". In short, it is a kind of "remembrance".

Wang Bing filmed "Traces" in 2005, during the search for locations for his film "The Ditch", in former « labour camps » in the Gobi Desert, where thousand of political prisoners had died of hunger. For the first time, he used 35mm black and white film (a gift from artist Yang Fudong) to capture this landscape condemned to disappear. With no sound, the film records the final, barely visible traces of human lives: bones, clothing, footsteps... Drawing on experimental documentary, this short video echoes other subjects dear to Wang Bing : the story of the campaign against the « rightist elements » in the early 1950s and the reeducation and hard labour camps established before the Cultural Revolution. This film, which was not edited until 2014, was first presented at the Centre Pompidou the same year and then again at the Galerie Chantal Crousel in 2018.

A group of city dwellers, bearing the weight of doubt, leave for the countryside to practise ecological farming. But the beautiful vision they carry collides, again and again, with the reality they encounter. On the long, obstacle-strewn road of this experiment, the distances between the people in the community begin to grow.

The mother is in her eightieth, the son is in his sixtieth, they talking about their past.

"China Gate" tells the story of young Chinese fight to change their fate through studying. Right before dawn, students in Huining have already started their self-studying session; hard working youngsters have filled up the space of school ground. This is one of the most poverty-stricken Counties in Western China; here people's only hope is in education, as the way to change their social status. Therefore all their effort point towards the College Entrance Examination, the process is like going through a gate, those who pass can study at urban Universities, and have the chance to build a better life. During the same winter season in Beijing, a graduate student faces a big decision. Should he keep trying to survive in the big city or get back to his countryside home? The exhausted faces at the Beijing underground seem to be revealing the truth about their distance in between. The student comes to see the flag ceremony at Tiananmen Square, where the pulsing symbol of the nation lies.

After a queer Chinese medicine practitioner is brutalized at a recent protest, their community comes together in quiet acts of healing.

On 1st April 2017, China launched the Xiong’an New Area project, intending to turn the region into a new megacity. In recognition of the accelerated urbanisation that has left the rural environment in a vacuum, Daphne Xu invites workers and residents to put on a performance in these non-places, thus dealing with a taboo subject with humour. – Tom Bidou

It tells the story of the abandoned child Xiao Yunjie (nicknamed Dwarf), living in a mountain village with his grandmother and two half-sisters. In a village where there are no young people, the 12-year-old Xiao Yunjie not only has to study hard, but also bears heavy housework.

Documentary film of Zhou Enlai's life.

Yu Guangyi's stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China as they employ traditional practices through one last, fateful expedition. For generations, the lumberjacks of Heilongjiang, China have made their living harvesting timber amidst a barren, wintry landscape. These woodcutters confront the elements, living in makeshift cabins surrounded by snow and ice. Hand tools, sleds and horses are the only technology they employ to drag massive trees down the perilous slopes of Black Bear Valley. At constant risk of injury and death, they attempt to appease the mountain gods with ancient rituals and sacrifices. Despite their heroic efforts to subsist, the deforestation caused by their decades-long customs may lead to their ultimate demise.

In this documentary we watch the real story of Li Weiyi, who raised an orphan wolf to return it later to the wild life where it belonged.

An in-depth portrayal of the university exam preparation that Chinese students undergo during their senior year of high school. For many students this exam is a ticket to a better life, so the stakes are high.

In August 2022, a 59-year-old female truck driver set off alone from Xi'an to Aksu, to start the arduous transportation. She thought she could earn a big order as usual. But unexpectedly, the news of the destination’s lockdown began to spread on the first day on the road. Thus, she experienced an unpredictable week on the truck...

In 2014, the remains of soldiers from the first 437 chinese volunteers who went to fight in Korea against the United States were returned to their homeland. Through the real-life narratives of veterans from different military branches and different periods, the film presents their youth and dreams in blood, and restores the most realistic battlefield, bringing a shock and resonance to the hearts of young people today. The best way to remember is not to forget.

The 62-year-old Meng Jinfu is the last shaman of the Orogen ethnic group in China. He and his wife Ding Quiqin live in the deep forest of the Greater Xing'an Mountains all year round and live a primitive life. In the 1950s, the Chinese government helped Orogen people relocate from the forest to settlements. However, Meng Jingfu who had lived in the forest since childhood, eventually returned there with his wife and made a living by hunting. Though his life is difficult, he has been happy since childhood in the forest. But since then area has been deforested and the animal population has decreased, Meng Jinfu has been worried. The resettlement under the mountain has fundamentally changed the customs of the Orogen people.

In a small city in northeast China, few people close to their thirties, are facing their own problems: changing jobs, getting married, buy a house, job promotion ...... to face life, the reality, and face the change in China. How are they going to position themselves, and how are they going to respond. Perhaps their respective issues is not just about the individual, but as a generation born after the reform and opening up of China. When reaching their thirties, there is inevitably too much gap, unwilling and helpless. At thirty, thirty have to set it up in where? This year has already went past unknowingly.

Pai Hsien-yung has lent Chinese-language literature some of its most colorful and most memorable characters, and served as the inspiration of multiple generations of artists working in mediums as different as television, film, and theatre. From the youthful air of the Modern Literature magazine, which he helped launch at the age of 22, to the humanistic sincerity in his recent works My Father and the Republic and Healing the Pain, Pai looks back on his 29 years teaching at Santa Barbara, a four-decade relishing of Guilin rice noodles, and a return visit to the gardens of Suzhou after 10 years. Through the darkened realm of the stage, to the countless lectures and courses he taught, Pai has been at the forefront of literature for multiple generations, with his unique blend of resilience and tenderness reverberating through the film, and bringing audiences closer to his warmth as a novelist.

'Chinese Hip-Hop Underground' is an insider documentary following the story of Weber - one of Mainland China's first rappers. Weber's uncanny musical talents allow him to spearhead the creation of Chinese rap music - a free form of creative self-expression that spreads like wildfire amongst those struggling the most; young working class students and grassroots migrants left out of the country's meteoric rise. Even while Weber's music electrifies China's youth and gains a huge following, he is challenged by enemies posing a threat to his musical existence: state censors, on the one hand, and armies of state-backed pop stars seeking to steal the name of hip-hop for their own gain, on the other. Can Weber and underground musicians like him survive this assault? Will Underground Chinese hip-hop survive?

Filmmakers Wu Wenguang and Jian Yi trained 10 villagers from across China to make films documenting electoral processes in their home villages. Pursuing the ideal that anyone can become a documentary filmmaker, this project sparked a new model of Chinese participatory documentary, with community members depicting their own lives. The resulting works—surprisingly humorous, and filled with their own local flavor—vividly reveal the realities of village life and democracy in action.

Documentary of all 12 families living in the Xishuping village during one winter.

his is a home video about a family that specializes in Fengshui. There have been 11 generations and most of the men in this family have carried on the geomantic craft. In the calamitous year of 2008, the 90 years old grandfather, the ninth generation successor of the family, celebrated the birth of his two great-grandchildren while burying his own son who died of cancer. The documentary centers around the family and shows different viewpoints of Chinese to all kinds of death. The name of the film, Wind flower Snow Moon, is actually the name of the coronach that the geomancers sing when they worship Buddha in the funeral. It suggests that life is eventually emptiness from birth, aging, illness to death. In the meantime, people struggle to live in the present.

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way. (Storyville)

The inhabitants of the village of Xi Yang Tang lead lives of extreme poverty and hardship. The children spend most of their time looking after their little brothers and sisters, and helping their parents with everyday chores.

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

Wang Bing is one of the greatest documentary-makers alive today, and his films offer a very insightful overview of the transformations occurring in Chinese society. Here, Dominique Auvray conducts an interview that, in addition to the biographical information, focuses above all on the relationship with things unsaid: Wang Bing attempts to do justice to his theme and the testimonies he’s gathered, but he stumbles over the words, struggling to keep his emotions in check. The pain of tackling history shows through the awkward speech.

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.

A Chinese documentary about rural workers and their education by educated youth sent to the countryside from cities.

On July 24, 2012, I drove to a city to cheer three local independent candidates and human right activists. While doing these things, we found ourselves tailed. At 12:00 at night, some policemen came to our room and started the so-called room inspection.

In August 2017, Shankin Liu, Frab D and DJ Breez3 took their music to six cities, with the director participating and filming the process, which was enjoyable for the most part.

A giant ginger mountain landscape that five cooks spent a week to make: Once magnificent culinary works of art were created in Chinese restaurants. Food was associated with a wealth of money and time. The world today is short-lived, customers have become few and far between. Chefs talk about the connection between food culture and socio-economic change in China.