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After missing the meeting with his friends, Qasem, an insomniac old Afghan man, roamed the city night, trying to find the stone he had seen with his friends on the mountain.

In the later stages of the epidemic, a young couple who constantly argued over work, a partner who had a conflict, a friend who didn't show up for a long time, their video chats were interwoven and recorded on a computer screen with anxiety, boredom, and hope.

The documentary recorded the work overload of the entire JD.com logistics sectors before and after the Double Eleven Shopping Day in China (the equivalence of the Black Friday). From goods being sorted at JD.com's gigantic sorting centre in the outskirts of Beijing and the Double Eleven national command centre at JD.com's headquarter, to the numerous delivery points spread across Beijing’s entire commercial and traditional districts, the mission and individual existence of the couriers working at online shopping terminals. All of the above sketch out the landscape of a consumption driven by powerful Internet economy (JD alone achieved 120 million rmb total sales on that single day). How will this situation lead us into a future social ecosystem?

In order to pursue a life different from the past, two musicians with different backgrounds leave Taipei. One is Tz-Fan Hsu, the head of the band, The Last Wave, and the other is Thomas, the driving force behind Sheng-Xiang & Band. The two landed in Kaohsiung to start a new musical life.

12-year-old Baheila lives with her family of nomadic shepherds in the Xinjiang province in Western China. Their tradition is to move with all their belongings. They have no eletricity at all. They regard their simple lives like the snow flakes coming to the earth and disappearing somewhere.

Documentary about sculptor Liu Huanzhang.

This is a documentary about some actor performing in a reverse performance at a gay bar in Chengdu. In reverse, men perform women's roles in women's clothing. The reverse actors in the film all have different sexual orientations from ordinary people. They are the marginal group of the marginal group gay. They performed roles different from their own gender on the stage, lived differently from ordinary people on stage, and pursued their freedom and happiness in their own way.

This documentary is about a group of people led by the anti-high artistic attitude of the underground culture of the end century during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1995 for three consecutive days and two nights, supported by the unprecedented courage of the Taipei County Cultural Center; the planning is broken.

The movie tells the story of Zhang Guo-Zhong, who since 2010 has measured the world with his feet, backpacked all over Southeast Asia, driven into Europe four times, held a variety of cultural activities along the way, and extended the tentacles of China's cultural exchanges with foreign countries to the streets and lanes along the way, which has led to the enactment of a monumental legend!

Documentary about the four people make a living by performing barehanded rock climbing in the Swallow Cave.

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space by Jiang Yue.

A Beijing drifter at his age of 30, with post-graduation finished, happy wedding and good future, stopped by cancer diagnosed all of a sudden. At the same year his father, a farmer was faced with wife’s hurt and father’s death. In the conversations, the father and son would share their stories and the thoughts of life, death, fate, dream and some around it.

China introduced its draconian policy in 1979. In 1986, Hothothot was born. The illegality of his existence cost his father three times his annual salary and the end of a promising political career. The profound guilt Hothothot felt over what his life cost his family, along with unspoken resentment that simmered between them failed to abate. Four Journeys sees him return to China to reconcile with his loved ones, only to be surprised by their demands. It also grapples with the legacy of the law, and the impact both Maoism and the Cultural Revolution had on Chinese family life.

A documentary about shamate, a wildly controversial subculture that emerged in China in the late ’00s.

I finally climbed out of the "cave house" to offer a sacrifice... Home, hometown, the Chinese Incense Burning Acestral Land... An array of half grave half beast faces that follow a collective and tragic fate.

On an island not far from the mainland, the young father seagull is anxiously guarding the new born gulls by the nest and awaiting the return of the mother seagull. The mother seagull has given up everything she has, but the baby seagull is still hungry. The father seagull had flown away in search of more food...The main diet of black-tailed gulls is pelagic fish in the sea, molluscs and aquatic insects in coastal wetlands and estuaries. However, with the overfishing of offshore fish and the pollution of the marine environment, seagulls can catch fewer and fewer small fish in the upper layer.

The sandstorm has covered the land and sky as far as the eye could see. As it wasn't viable to leave the task until the next day, the salt finder and the rock finding team continue their work in the Gobi Desert, dispatching smaller units to gather at the temporary transfer station. When it came close to supper time, the sandstorm has engulfed the entire base. The sky appeared a magenta color and grey green. Spinning at the tallest point of the mountain was a giant white cloud. Going from the cloud downwards, at the south side of the mountain, was an endless Gobi Desert, where a 750 hectares (1800 acres) ecological base was slowly being constructed. Video practice, sampling the topography, where does the depth of field lead in the image and sound? In the immortal desert, nothing decays. Everything weathers and turns to dust.

Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.

Initially the story of an HIV+ woman who was “not afraid of dying”, the question arose during editing as to whether the film’s subject, Zhang Xi, was telling the “truth” with regard to her own story, or fabricating it. Eventually, the film became less about the “reality” of Zhang’s life, and more about her own narration of it: she decides the story, the cast, the arrangement of dramatic events. No longer faced with questions of truth or falsehood, we instead follow Zhang Xi’s exploration of her own suppressed or as-yet-unsatisfied desires.

A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 years old with five sons, the grandfather insists to live by himself in the rural area of Hebei

This full-length documentary documents the construction of the Red Flag Canal, presenting the project as a collective socialist achievement through the visual language of late-1960s Chinese state cinema.

At the beginning of 2024, horodiste vgroup used the two DVDs as found footages, recorded analog signal through a DVD player, and re-created and presented freak private memories: the turning point of academic studies, the 2006 high school sports meeting, the autumn outing, and the faces of classmates.

Considering the underground as both a metaphor and a manifest reality, Zheng’s film Sinking Latitude focuses on a myth about underground flooding. The city where the story takes place (Zigong city in the Sichuan province, China) has a history of salt mining that spans more than 2000 years, and generations of residents who have lived there have passed down a prophetic myth for centuries–that due to excessive mining, the city's underground has long been hollowed out and depleted, filling with salty brine, and that one day, when an earthquake occurs, an underground flood of salty liquid, the mine itself, will surge out and engulf the city.

This film explores the remarkable Taiwanese love affair with Western classical music. For a relatively small island, Taiwan today boasts an extraordinary amount of musical talent. Not content with slavishly following the West, many classically trained Taiwanese musicians are exploring their own roots and creating exciting new hybrids that keep pace with changing times. Could this trend signal a re-assertion of Taiwan's own traditions?

Adi vividly remembers the moment his mom left home. He was four. She cut off a lock of her hair, tied a red thread around it, and walked out with a luggage bag. For 11 years, she didn’t return. Now fifteen, Adi resents his mother as much as he misses her. He roams the streets with a biker gang and pours his energy into streaming in drag on social media.

A documentary pastiche about living in contemporary China, constituted by images of immigrant workers’ on-street KTV singing; open-air community dancing parties; the campus life and extracurricular activities of high school and college students; the job of killing mosquitoes done by children of migrant workers; fragments of gay love stories; the wedding of a film director; as well as a farmer coming from their hometown to Beijing, kneeling on a flyover seeking justice. This documentary film is intended to present a kaleidoscopic view of everyday life in contemporary China.

Aoluguya, Aoluguya is the first film in Gu Tao’s Ewenki Trilogy. A tale that unfolds in the Aoluguya forest, featuring such unique characters as a mother who dulls her sadness over the absence of her son, Yuguo, with alcohol; her brother; and Maria, the tribal chieftain who watches over them.

On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous.

Documentary on the life of Chinese poet and scholar Wen Yiduo with reenactment sequences on his last few days. Shot but not fully finished or aired in 1996, a different 33-minute re-edit version was aired later in 2001.

Over hundred years of development, the Chinese film industry has been through a lot. Lisa Lu, a nearly hundred-year-old Chinese American actress, stands for a book of Chinese film history herself. In the film, Lisa Lu talks about her life, career, and her on-going process of dream pursuing inside the movie world. During this journey, she’ll also bring out a couple more memorable Chinese filmmakers. Including one of the first Asian actress who has her own “star” on the Hollywood Boulevard, Anna May Wong; Minwei Li, who made a huge contribution to China by documenting the warfare, Chusheng Cai, one of the founders of Chinese feature film, and the world-famous martial artist, Bruce Lee.

One long tracking shot through a park in Chengdu.

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the exploited class. Borrowing this concept, the umbrella is taken as the clue to rediscover changes in various social classes after the economic reform, and to analyze the social problems in China. Workers making umbrellas, merchants selling umbrellas, students looking for jobs in the rain. Umbrella is used as a metaphor that can be seen everywhere. As the raindrop, what we see is sometimes clear, sometimes untraceable.

This short documentary flim was shooted in January 2026. It showcases the latest experiences in Xizang, China, of nine youth from six countries across four continents: Nepal, the United States, Russia, Italy, Morocco, and Cambodia. The film highlights the nine young people's visits to cultural heritage preservation sites like the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, the development of photovoltaic power stations and green new energy, modern residential architecture and agriculture, ecological conservation efforts for snow-capped mountains, glaciers, and plateau lakes, high-speed rail and expressways, the transmission of intangible cultural heritage, and the ordinary yet fulfilling modern lives of everyday people.

A short documentary about one of the cheapest cities in northern China--Hegang. A report about a flat for only 50,000 RMB (US $7,800) got a sensational impact on Chinese social media. So we went to Hegang and talked to the young people who moved there from big cities. Are they "losers" who failed in big cities? Or does Hegang give them a different picture of life? Check this out.

In China the marriage ritual is not a matter of a boy and a girl who are in love with each other and want to officially confirm their relationship. The protocol consists of six stages that must be completed according to the rules: the proposal, the negotiations, the engagement, the cognisance of the birth dates of the betrothed couple to ratify the marital relationship, a visit to the fortune-teller for the most favourable wedding date, and finally the wedding ceremony. MARRIAGE follows a marriage broker during the extensive, complicated and relentless negotiations for two marriages, somewhere in the southwest of China, between Jian and Qiong, and between Yu and Zhao. In addition, the film depicts the daily life in the villages, which is filled with manual labour on the land (the men) and around the house (the women). The film ends with the wedding celebrations, when the bride is carried across the mountains to her future husband’s house in an adorned, closed palanquin.

Beijing's Forbidden City is known throughout the world as an icon of Chinese history, evolving over the centuries as a symbol of the glory and grandeur of its ruling elite. Yet in one corner stands a more intimate group of buildings and gardens—one that has lain unused and virtually untouched for more than two hundred years. This film takes us on a fascinating journey into a world where only the most perfect and beautiful work could be offered to an Emperor—a standard that the modern world is hard-pressed to equal. The revelation is that supreme skills and traditional materials may be rare, but they do still exist, if the will exists to seek them out. The search ends in triumph—and watching this remarkable and intricate treasure come back to life is an unforgettable experience.

Go With Your Gut is documentary on the theme of how you should always follow your heart. It tells the stories of 7 Chinese independent domestic brand founders. The main characters are Mao ...

A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He interviewed the elders in his village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. His main purpose was to gather the names of those who suffered and died during the famine and to ask the village to donate money for erecting a monument in their name, but the idea was rejected by the villagers

A story of a special commune in Jilin Province, China. This commune is for physically or mentally challenged people, born in their condition due to the polluted water source. Presenting their births, deaths, loves and hates like any other people’s lives, director Yiren Wang pays respects to them. Also, it penetrates into a big political irony that the communist utopia of Mao Zedong can be materialised only through the lives of an excluded minority.

What if we could identify the genes for human intelligence? Would a brave new world of improved human beings be waiting for us? The documentary DNA Dreams features a new generation of scientists at BGI, China’s leading genomics research institute. The film follows eighteen-year-old Zhao Bowen, who wants to find the genetic basis of intelligence by analysing the DNA of 2,000 highly gifted children. At BGI’s cloning lab, twenty-five-year-old Lin Lin produces pigs in all shapes and forms. Deeply in love with her work, she feels ‘like a mother’ to the piglets that are conceived under her microscope.

On a stone mountain in the far suburbs of Beijing, there is a group of migrant workers from the Northeast who are engaged in stone mining all year round. Lao Cao, Xiao Cao, Lao Yu Lao Zhang are among them.

Documentary on the Wenchuan earthquake.

In Wuqiao, a small Chinese town, the inhabitants are dedicated to circus. For decades, different generations have been presenting themselves as clowns, magicians, acrobats and tamers. During the holidays of Chinese New Year, the Wuqiao Acrobatic World turns into a big playground for spectators. Surrounded by Buddhist temples and Taoist sculptures, artists create their own space of circus tradition, imagination, illusion and reality. Backstage life is melancholic. "Wuqiao Circus", a film about circus life fragments, performative existence and the love for playfulness.

Heike Baranowsky captures situations in Chinese everyday life, as in her sixteen-minute film projection T Square (2006), which she made together with Waszem Khan (camera: Volker Gläser). The film operates with a hardly perceptible and slow and regular zoom in on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where the evening ritual of lowering the state flag is in pro- gress. The transition from a city panorama to the action at this historically and politically charged location is accompa- nied by a change in atmosphere, both through the onset of darkness and a shift in perception from mere viewing to ob- serving. (Peer Golo Willi)

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.

As a special generation born in the New China, the hundreds of thousands of educated youth from Shanghai went through enormous hardship during their work in Xinjiang from 1963 to 1966. Because of the specific historical conditions and context, they have been strikingly stamped with the mark of the times and have had to struggle to understand the relationship between themselves and the nation.

A documentary that explores the relationship between three families in Suzhou and their private gardens. Each family invested considerably in creating serene and classic gardens, seeking ancestral tranquility. However, they face challenges when trying to maintain a poetic relationship between people and their gardens in an ever-changing modern world.

The contemporary Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong traveled to the border of the United States and Mexico for his new painting project. Faced with complicated border and refugee issues, a foreign country, and stranger people, he used his Chinese sensibility and artist’s simplicity to find inspiration for his creation.

Due to its proximity to the No. 6 Naphtha Cracker Complex, Ciaotou Elementary School Syucuo Branch has relocated its students four times within three years for fear of health risks. It is said that "Kisses and Hugs", a newspaper praising the benefits and prosperity brought by the petrochemical industry, is delivered monthly to local households. Through this publication, this film examines the complex relationship between industry and local community.

A documentary on five single women living in cities.

Four years ago, Kingsley arrived from Nigeria in Guangzhou, China and shared a small room with other Africans in the basement of a commercial building. He converted this modest space into a barber’s shop. Kingsley is keen to start an import and export company and to register it officially in Guangzhou. He works every day until 11 pm then goes to sleep in a chair at McDonald’s. He must also send money to his wife, so despite all his efforts, he is still unable to put aside enough money to register his business. In mid-November 2019, he goes back to Lagos to renew his visa. There, he and his wife rent a small stall in the Ikotun Market in the suburbs. But business is hard. Early in 2020, Kingsley is due to head back to China to continue his quest, but with all travel blocked by the Covid-19 epidemic, he remains stuck in Nigeria. Meanwhile, in Guangzhou, the director meets Evelyn, a Nigerian woman, trying to survive with her 6-year-old daughter and with another one on the way.