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Educational film about different kinds of the gemstones.

Traditional opera is well known in Fujian, and the women clown (played by men) of Gaojia Opera are the most famous. This film records the last days of Master Ke Xianxi, one of four most famous 'clowns' in China, and his caring for the existence and development of Gaojia Opera in modern times. It depicts the major challenges facing Chinese traditional opera today.

July 27th, 1976 - a day the people of Tangshan will never forget. When that fateful day ended, tens of thousands had been killed, and the lives of the survivors would be changed forever. No public official, no expert, nor anyone among the seismological personnel - regardless of what they were doing that day - should ever forget. History will always remember the twilight of that day.

This astonishing colour film features many of China's cultural treasures including Beijing's Forbidden City and Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Ming Tombs, the Marco Polo Bridge, the Great Wall and the palaces of Chengde as well as footage of Seoul.

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.

Ye Yun (or Da San) is the third son in his family, born in 1970 in Zhaowu Dameng in Inner Mongolia, where he works for a local copper company. For the last 10 years of his life, he feels little has changed. However, he has always had an idea: to go to Tibet and see Mount Everest. Those around him have often discouraged the idea because of the region's harsh environment. Yet, Da San is determined to do something different life in his ordinary life. He determines to satisfy his wish, so he persuaded his friends to embark on a roadtrip to Tibet.

Between 1405 and 1433, Admiral Zheng He of China led seven epic voyages to more than 30 countries, including Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Kenya and Tanzania. The admiral and his crew gathered knowledge and wealth from Indochina to Africa for China's Ming empire. These voyages were the biggest naval expeditions mounted at the time. Zheng He was bigger than life and could have changed the course of history. But after the seven voyages, he and his Treasure Fleet were forgotten by China, and the world, for six hundred years. National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita sets sail to discover why. To celebrate the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's maiden exploration voyage, Michael Yamashita traveled over 10,000 miles from Yunnan in China to Africa's Swahili coast taking over 40,000 pictures for the feature story on this great explorer, published in the July 2005 edition of National Geographic.

Notes Unheard follows a young Chinese violist studying in the UK while remaining closely connected to his father in China. Through calls, rehearsals, visits, and repeated conversations, subtle shifts gradually emerge within their relationship.

The 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert was the first and only New Year's Concert conducted by Mr. Herbert von Karajan, the "Emperor of Conducting" and the "General Director of Music in Europe", and of course, the only New Year's Concert ever held.

Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space directed by Jiang Yue. This was a "demo" that Jiang made for Living Space's new producer, Chen Mang, after the departure of the original producer, Lu Wangping. From the example set by this film, Living Space thereafter developed the slogan: "Telling the stories of ordinary people.”

This is an earlier version of the film A River Stilled (静止的河). It's a documentary film about a young couple who live on opposite sides of the river at a time when their houses are about to be demolished as part of building the dam for the Three Gorges Dam project.

The Three Gorges Dam continues to cast a long shadow on Chinese society, Politics and environment. This documentary studies the project's final completion in 2012. Some of the prominent figures past and present - Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemi, are taken to task for rushing the project. The result is long-term ecological destruction, widespread elimination of local economies and forced relocation. Director WANG Li-bo lends his voice to the wave of criticisms of one of China’s most controversial projects.

Workers wrongfully dismissed wage battle against their employer, China Telecom. Incorporating artistic means of expression such as photography and theater, various artists wage extraordinary performances with the workers in the film, in solidarity with their struggles.

An experimental biography of Chung-I, one half of a once-conjoined twin whose separation surgery at age 3 was broadcast live on Taiwanese television. Forty years later, artist Hsu Che-yu produces a digital scan and ceramic cast of the man's body in a playfully analytical take on doubling and copies.

Wei and Xie live together after the graduation. Wei’s temper is getting worse and Xie is constantly changing her jobs. The camera sits at the corner and records everyday life of eating, sleeping, having sex, quarreling, daydreaming…

Some occurrences themselves are forgotten and being got rid of any copyrights. What’s more these occurrences were created and shared by people in a certain place. Although these occurrences are worthless, they are still meaningful for reservation. When the places that something occurred have changed gradually, will occurrences themselves die out soon? As an individual, I may record something.

"The sulphur-iron mine is located at the common boundary of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou province, with an area of 1774 square meters. The Yong Ning River originated from here, flowing northward 108 kilometers into the Yangtze River. The mine was established in 1950 and its products are mainly exported, with some concentrated uses within in the county. We found this place in the newspaper by accident; it's called Big Tree County. Many years ago, it was part of the forest along the Yangtze River. A sulphur-iron mine was discovered in the 1920s, which started large-scale sulphur smelting. Now the old way of sulphur smelting is ranking first in the country[sic]. On our second day there, in this remote valley in the southern part of Sichuan province with hundreds of thousands of people living there, we met a boy named Tan Cong. We then got to know his family, as well as a local school teacher, and some of the locals smelting the sulphur."

This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.

1988 feature documentary on the history, culture and people of Tibet.

Update version of Gao Guodong's The Nu Family, shot from 1992 to 2007.

Ju and I have resided for nearly a whole year in the area of South Stone, of which appeared to be a distant village completely abandoned by the city, yet maintaining its very own independent system of living. Our perceptive consciousnesses were re-ignited (by the situation of South Stone area), Our activities here made hap-pening of improvised scripts, of images, and of body exercises, on the new time path, we are to be the man who plants scenarios.

Sugan Yibu lost his father when he was young. He nearly died elsewhere while working outside. His mother, who lost her husband, and he stuck together and helped each other in difficulties in his home town. There are many volunteers come to the village, teach on their own in recent years. Sugan Yibu is pleased to see the children in village take due education. He also has class occasionally in the school. The village electrified in 2012. With TV. Sugan Yibu who looks forward to the outside world, has a new way to knows more about outside world. He watched NEWS everyday through TV. He gets plenty of praise for the policy and strategy. The more he knows about the law, the more he feels disgusted to the local government. The life of Sugan Yibu, substitute teachers public teachers in school. Because of the different perception, they all have different views towards different problems.

Documentary about China's first antarctic expedition in 1984.

Wang Fen’s father is a small-time railway bureaucrat who’s had many extramarital affairs; her mother claims not to have a single good memory of her married life with him. Funny how a 30-year-marriage can sound so different when described by separate parties in separate interviews. Wang captures her parents’ broken marriage with a carefree, humorous yet somehow also critical perspective, lacing her film with pop music from their generation.

Ten years after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Yushu, a group of professional musicians search for new voices of Tibetan folk songs in local primary schools. The new generation carries the hopes of Tibetan families, and in their bright voices, we can sense warmth, human resilience, and inner strength.

This two-part series provides a detailed look at China's post-Mao evolution, beginning with Deng Xiaoping's vision of openness to Western ideas and concluding with the ramifications of his reforms following his departure from public life.

In the first 30 years of the PRC, in order to maintain and consolidate CCP’s rule, political campaigns were frequently launched. Landowner Liu Wencai’s home in Sichuan province became the "Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall," serving to educate people about the class struggle. Tens of thousands visited daily. The cluster of sculptures entitled "Rent Collection Courtyard" was the subject of a documentary film and the prototype for copies of statues exhibited across the country. The overwhelming media publicity turned Liu Wencai into the representative of the "heinous crimes" of the landlord class and he became a household name, influencing several generations. Liu Xiaofei, grandson of Liu Wencai, has suffered from injustice since his childhood and began his interviews and investigations into this catastrophe for his family twenty years ago, in order to “clear” the charges against his grandfather and restore the historical truth.

Unusually popular religions and extreme secular beliefs, unconstrained power and no authoritarian society, people work hard on the land and live thrifty but do not believe in the meaning of life at all. This is Longwang Village, an empty old farming society, the most essential reality of an ordinary western village. The film does not have a perpetual plot. The images are presented with the changing of the four seasons. There is no great joy or great sadness. Everything is recorded, and no results are produced. Strictly speaking, this is actually just a rural video file, a running account of ordinary western villages without all rhetoric.

In China, many parents are sacrificing everything to see their children graduate successfully from a university in order to obtain highly-paid jobs. Han Peiyin has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi’an to make the money for his son, Shengli, to attend a university. For years, Han, carried a notebook in which he recorded all of his loans - mostly small amounts such as 10 or 20 RMB. Han is convinced that knowledge has the power to change destinies, and expects his son to be successful.

Home to a fifth of the world's population, the newly-minted superpower will soon be the largest economy on earth. Yet it remains little understood in the West. This three-part documentary offers a bold step towards overturning that ignorance. With the most sumptuous production values possible, it skilfully glides from historical enquiry to current analysis in a deep yet accessible tour de force. Timely, comprehensive, and magisterial.

Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.

This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as hermits and practice their religion. These are some of the people about whom Red Pine wrote in his book, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.

Adil Hoxur, descended from a line of Dawaz tightrope artists, performs nightly with his troupe in China’s Taklamakan desert, among the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people seeking religious and political autonomy. Shot over four months, this experimental documentary takes shape as a travelogue, ethnographic visual poem, and advocacy video for the preservation of a traditional art form. - MoMA

Around the year 2000 AD, it was reported in the news that about two million cotton pickers rush to the vast land of Xinjiang every year, just like migratory birds, arriving in September and leaving in November. With curiosity, I also joined this "migratory bird" team and headed straight to the Xinjiang farm thousands of miles away. The train was very crowded, and among the cotton pickers who were mostly female workers, the vast and beautiful Xinjiang surprised these "migratory birds" for the first time. The hardships and joy in Xinjiang's cotton fields were also their first experiences. This film is the memory of me joining the migratory bird team as a cotton picker.

China's first film was made in 1905 when great changes were taking place in Chinese society. Films, as vivid records of the times, have, since then, recorded all the happenings of China in the century: From national liberation movements and social changes to the fate and daily life of ordinary people. Films enrich people's lives and inspire their spirit. To mark the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Film industry, this documentary has chosen and highlighted the events and figures of milestone significance in "Chinese films and films of China" to probe how Chinese films have developed from entertainment to enlightenment through education and from propaganda to the market, and to show a centennial splendor and glory to the Chinese film industry

This documentary chronicles the life journeys and diverse fates of over a dozen former "sent-down youth" (zhishi qingnian) from Tongchuan.

A journey to the origins in Fangshan, China, during the Chinese New Year. Through a visual autoethnography, a young woman from Barcelona captures her grandparents’ hometown, transformed by migration. The generational void is perceived in a school without students, deserted streets, and the family home. An intimate reflection that questions the uncertain future of the village.

The team recorded the entire process of the Nürburgring and edited it into a 46-minute documentary "6′46″874". More than 2 years of preparation, 1 month of anxious waiting, still a slippery track, only one lap opportunity. Our team and our SU7 Ultra Prototype did it! The world's fastest 4-door car to top the Nürburgring is our first time to hit the Nürburgring. This is a miracle and a new starting point. Xiaomi SU7 Ultra mass production version, hit the Nürburgring, see you next spring!

Mr. Jiang is a Shanghai dandy, living by himself in a house that stood the test of time since the 1930s as a witness to what happened to the city. Now, the house is about to be torn down as part of a redevelopment plan. A woman becomes a tenant and fiercely pursues the taciturn man, until he opens his mouth unraveling his unique philosophy and personal history. Combined with the verbal sparring between the two and the scenes around the house, the sadness that oozes from Mr. Jiang's life at the mercy of Chinese history-Shanghai during the war, the fury of the Cultural Revolution, and now the present-casts a subtle shadow over the film.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

This is a documentary about the armed violence in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Traces are spread out from the only left 「Cultural Revolution Graveyard」 in Chongqing, through looking for the kinsfolk of the victims and the survivors participated in the fights, ask them to recount their experience and the scene of the armed violence of the Cultural Revolution, recollect the impact of the bygones to their life in the course of their growth, listen to their opinions and reflects to the historical disaster.

May 12th, 2008, 8-magnitude Wenchuan massive earthquake happened in Sichuan province. In Bailu town, the Shangshu Seminary, built by French Catholic missionaries 100 years before, collapsed in the earthquake. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage planed to rebuild the Shangshu Seminary. During rebuilding, Tang Min, a Catholic parishioner of three generations in Bailu town, conflicted with his neighbor Jiang's family because of some interests, his wife and daughter were brutally killed by Jiang's family. Tang Min's faith also collapsed. Six years later, the reconstruction of the collapsed Seminary was completed, Tang Min also remarried and had a three-year-old daughter, life in Bailu town seemed to be returning to the calm it had been before the collapse.

This documentary follows Huang Yuechuang, a 77 year-old cormorant fisherman who is the last of his generation to carry on the traditional type of fishing in rural China. Yuechuang has recently become a well known personality online since a photo of him won a Sony Award in 2012 and he is determined to show the world why it is important to keep his family tradition alive.

The documentary that uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery. Through interviews and previously unseen archival materials, we follow three decades of this artist’s creative and spiritual quest far from his homeland.

Two families' oral history of the Cultural Revolution and their current life.

This film describes the life of some ordinary people in a small town in southern China. Among them, there is a guy just graduated from a college, a businessman, a government office worker, etc.. Although it is said that the country advances triumphantly and the economy develops rapidly, these ordinary people are in a miserable state. Because it is a time of money, they are dreaming of getting it as much as they can to change their poor fate, which seems impossible for them forever.

Eleven members of a traditional theatre troupe perform daily and live out their lives in a small playhouse in the Sichuan region of China. Their three-hour show combines various forms, from classical Chinese opera to acrobatics, and is adored by the locals. Their star actress Dandan has performed in the troupe with her mother since she was little, sharing a living space with a group of performers who share no absence of fights. Though she worries about her future, she continues to earnestly perform the heroine for her elderly audience.

In 1992, more than 130 female workers in Jialong Garment Factory lost their jobs. That year, in order to transfer capital to Indonesia, the factory announced the closure of the factory at the same time as the union was established. The boss, Zhu Yinglong, a professor at Taiwan University, refused to pay severance payment in accordance with the standards of the Labor Law Law. The employees had nowhere to ask for help and decided to take to the streets to seek justice.

The voices in this film are all conscientious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their ethos is: “Where affairs of state are concerned, we cannot stand idly by and watch.” And yet the reward for their concern is a lifetime spent in political turmoil, years of periodic intimidation and surveillance. This film illustrates the perils of seeking freedom in a time of darkness, in a time when critique requires transformation. It depicts the harsh realities faced by three generations of activists—young, middle-aged and elderly– and allows us to better understand their anxieties, hopes, despairs and above all, their persistence.

I bought a VHS player to watch my parents’ wedding video. My mother came by and chatted with me as I was rewinding the VHS tape.

Remarkable short documentary "My Sister Swallowed the Zoo" layers old family photographs over an international telephone call of increasing intensity. Deftly experimental and wonderfully efficient, Zhang captures the liberation and the torment of being away – from home and from the expectations of daughter- and sisterhood. The work is not afraid to be loud, claiming a speaking and cinematic voice, and calling attention to the visibility of personal histories and anguished transnational futures.

About three HIV+ and heroine-addicted kids living in the streets of the industrial city of Chengdu (Sichuan province). Documenting a growing social phenomenon, made possible by the constant influx of peasants seeking industrial jobs, their turning to drugs to ease their discomfort at city life and a strange loophole in Chinese law pertaining to juvenile delinquents, the piece made the round of international film festivals, from Vienna to Yamagata.

A film between two countries. A film between two realities.