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Director Vincent Lan returns to his hometown Chengdu and reflects on the past years.

Educational film on various aspects about anorectal disorders.

The film records the daily life of four generations of a Xianbei nationality family in northem shaanxi descended from clan lords. Integrated with the Han majority, they live a simple life. The documentary reflects their religious faith and spiritual world and their surroundings. On the edge of modernity, when they face frustration, hardship and loss, they interpret life in a unique way. Their attachment to the soil, religious worship and commitment to destiny all tell us a story about deep, loyal and truthful sentiments.

Reenactment documentary made for Oriental Time and Space (东方时空). The story concerns the discovery of a photo album containing 16 photographs which documenti the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during its 1937 occupation of Nanjing. This photo album later became a significant piece of evidence used during the trial of Hisao Tani, one of the primary perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre.

This thirty-five section, no-narration, no-music visual story is a true minimalist dialogue with fishermen. Unadorned and unadulterated, Ocean displays a collection of recorded marine images in a plain and simple way. Gazing at the images, one sees a true representation of marine life and the myriad ways humans capture nutrients from the ocean, as well as the ocean’s power to strike back.

Starting from 2020, COVID-19 infectious diseases broke out all over the country, with Wuhan in Hubei Province as the hardest hit area. On a special day with wind and snow, Chen Huiying and her family returned to their hometown in Hubei (Hongtu Township) to accompany the elderly for the Spring Festival. At this moment, many roads in Hubei Province were closed, people could not get in and out-effectively prevented and controlled the spread of this epidemic. Almost everyone in this little township were trapped here, workers therefore had no option but to stay at home. Overwhelming news of COVID-19 came from TV news and Internets. The number of infections and deaths rose sharply with all-day live broadcasting. Accompanied by fear and anxiety, repeated the usual ordinary state of life, and children seeded the only fun in the enclosed space. As days passed, everyone looked forward to having a safe environment for their families and waited to the situation of the epidemic to improve.

Being in the World follows a young woman on a two-month train journey across China, where she meets strangers from a wide range of social backgrounds and asks them about their dreams, life paths, and choices. Out of these encounters emerges a layered portrait of everyday life in China. A unique extension of the project revisits the same people ten years later, tracing how their lives have evolved and opening up new perspectives on their stories.

In the city of GenHe, the coldest part of China, a team of teenagers from underprivileged backgrounds run every day under extremely harsh circumstances. The sports school has provided them with something they couldn’t get from their families: joy and hope for a better life. A heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.

After Self-Portrait: At 47 Km, Zhang Mengqi pursues her contributions to the Folk Memory Project, relentlessly questioning the survivors of the 1959-61 famine in her village, “47 kilometres” (47 km from Suizhou, in Hebei Province).

A ordinary village in Jiangxi Province, is the hometown of the director. The youth are heading for the city, the author is anxious of his hometown to be changed too dramatically in the coming days. He records down the precious shots of the villages in its four seasons, and then turns to those youth struggling in the city: their worries, their joys and their missing of the hometown. In the film, the author tries to explore the meaning of hometown for those being forced to look for new chance in the city by the market, although his story is not ending......

This Song GAO directed documentary follows the stories of Feng Haitao, Li Yuchun, and Jin Lian after they graduate from the Sichuan Normal University. As they seek employment in one of China's largest cities, Chengdu, the program makes us question the validity of a college diploma and whether wealth is more important than education. Following each graduate from the moment they receive their diplomas, we track their highs and lows as the pressures of the modern world are thrust upon them. As we become more connected with their lives we start to wonder that even with China's growing influence in the world, are there still enough jobs for China's next generation of graduates?

With exceptional access over a twelve month filming period, Haryun follows the children of three migrant worker families in Guangzhou, China, during their final year at an unofficial 'Minban' primary school. The country's 'hukou' (household registration) system excludes migrant children from public education in its cities, relegating them to second-class citizenship. As Haryun captures the children's passions, struggles, frustrations and dreams she also observes the life-changing decisions they must take at this tender age - to return to their hometowns for further education, struggle to continue their studies in the city or enter the underground child workforce aged only fourteen.

The film's director, Hao Jian, has spent more than ten years interviewing many of his relatives and comrades, and has filmed a large amount of material related to the life of Yu Luoke. The film uses a combination of documentary interviews and montage to document and describe his life. The filmmaker also interviews several generations of Chinese thinkers, including Liu Xiaobo, with whom he considers the ideological significance and persona of Yu Luoke in Chinese history, providing a profound reading and interpretation of Yu Luoke as a thinker, rebel and human rights pioneer from multiple perspectives.

Yongzhonglamu decided to fulfill her 96-year-old mother's wish to pass on their love to the children with her own hands and in her own way. With her hard work and the inherited skills, she saved enough money to change phones and complete the repair of the water mill, sending love to the children in this way.

A study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. Revealing the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and using them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.

In Gansu Province, the Minquin community struggles with the affects of desertification. Surrounded by the Tengri and Badanjilin deserts, the villages of the region are beginning to be engulfed underneath sand dunes. Many villagers decide to leave their homeland. However, several elders have chosen to stay. They prefer instead to remain close to their roots and try to fight against desertification by planting trees. Following the story of these peoples, we are immersed in one of the worldwide ecological battles of the 21st Century. Desertification is a problem that largely overwhelms the Chinese frontiers. But on a broader scale, many environmental specialists claim that one third of the earth's surfaces are threatened by this phenomenon. It is a story we should all heed.

Weaving together folk tales from Hou Hsiao-hsien’s coming-of-age trilogy with her Grandfather’s memories of supernatural visitation in his home, Virada retraces the Chinese diaspora through the stories of mysterious occurrences that are passed down through generations.

Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races—the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps—the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.

Sentience starkly contrasts the stunning beauty of Guanxi Provence's ancient mountains and the abrasive imposition of modernity playing out on Yangshou's famous 1400 year old West Street.

At the beginning of 80's in 20th century the discarded old metals called foreign garbage began to appear here,and then were carried to the nearby Fengjiang Town for dismantling . At the present time, Fengjiang Dismantling Industrial Park founded by Taizhou City has expanded to more than 1600 acres. More than 200 enterprises altogether take on the improvement trade for import of scrap metals inside the park ,where a great deal of migrant workers pour and go in for metal dismantling. The dioxin pollution for local soil has been detected here by Chinese research mrvhsnidm for the first time. As one of the most poisonous materials up to now, the dioxin pollution could extend to the range in dozens of square kilometers.

Wulong City was divided by a mountain river until the first bridge was built in 1980. In local areas there is a mania for the endless connection of the two coasts.

Because of the lack of common language, a frog choose to be silence.

Located in Yongning Township, Ninglang County, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the Mosuo are the only matrilineal society in China, where men do not marry, women do not marry, and people live with their mothers all their lives, without the marriage and family of mainstream society. The Mosuo people emphasize women over men, and there is no question of "men oppressing women" or "women oppressing men"; women and men are relaxed and at ease with their gender and sexuality, which is a rarity on earth....

Yulin, once the poorest region of Northwest China, has rapidly become "China's Kuwait" for the mining industry launched in recent years. People rush into the coal mine and other coal-related businesses, hoping to get rich overnight. They are possessed by anxiety and restlessness. However, it seems they have no other choices…

For thousands of years, the Kucong tribe have lived in the primary rainforests of the Ailao Mountain and led primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyles. However, things changed in 1949 with the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. A series of programmes were initiated to get the Kucong tribe to leave the forests and mountains, however, such initiatives did not go down well with the Kucong tribe. During the 50 years between 1958 and 2008, the Kucong tribe has been relocated from the forests five times; all five times, they escaped back to their homes in the forests. In 2008, the government decided to resettle the Kucong tribe for the sixth time—will they leave the forests this time?

There are more than 2,500 pensioners living in a large private retirement home located in a suburb of Canton (Guangzhou), China. As we discover the daily lives of these people, the film focuses on the lives of two elderly ladies: Ms. Kuang and Ms Xie. The documentary reveals how today's urban China can be reflected by the story of these two women, who find themselves away from their families, in a retirement home. Here, in the wake of serious health considerations, they have to build new relationships, define a new rhythm to their daily life and invent new ways to be with others.

Acclaimed Chinese TV documentarian Wang Haibing’s Home was an official selection at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film records a story between humans and animals. The protagonists of the story are: a giant panda, who is about to be released into nature, and several ordinary workers at the rescue station to protect the giant panda. The relationship between man and nature depicted here is simple, harmonious and beautiful.

Short documentary about Chinese rapper Masiwei.

One night, two men meet in an abandoned building, and share their memories about early lives in their hometowns. They leave this building and continue to roam in the night, then they find themselves return back to the abandoned building: it looks more unfamiliar now, then it collapse down, then it's gone. They leave this place and pass by more ruins and finally reach to the edge of the city and arrive at a hill which is constructed by piled-up construction waste. On the top of the hill, they see the railway that leads to their hometown.

Dr. Rao died on 29Th of September 2010.The funeral ceremony in Sichuan, Southwest China, lasted two days and two nights and was recorded in a rather unconventional way: 5.957 single photo shots, combined to a 7 minutes short film. It shows the funeral of an ordinary Chinese man, surrounded by his family. One witnesses the enshrined body, the cremation of the deceased and the immediate handing over afterwords of his remains to the family members. The film provides a very intimate perspective on contemporary Chinese culture, where Taoist burial rites are blended with modern secular customs. The process brings to mind a theater performance with stage, acting and scenery, embodying the transition from the living to the death.

“To see a girl I fell in love with at the first sight, I imitated my idol Herzog to start a journey on foot.”

In August 2015, the second Antwerp Queer Arts Festival took place in Belgium. Organized by the Antwerp LGBT umbrella organization “Het Roze Huis – çavaria Antwerpen”, the Festival focused on China. Chinese queer artists and activists Yuan Yuan, Siberian Butterfly, Xiaogang and Tony were invited to showcase the life, activism and art of LGBTI communities in China. They screened documentaries, held conferences and talks, and participated in the exhibition “Queer Arts in China” which featured photographs and paper-cuts manifesting China’s queer culture. During a marvelous week of festivities, they bonded with their Belgian colleagues and walked proudly together with them in the Antwerp Pride parade. The documentary “Queer East Meets West” takes you to the heart of the festival, and lets you participate in the joy of Belgian-Chinese comradery. Antwerp Queer Arts Festival ahoy!

A Burmese-Chinese family struggles with their life between Taiwan and Myanmar. Where should they settle down?

In a deserted mountain village, an old man digs grave for himself. He is my father, an anti-socialist opposing the Communist Party. He had a promising job in the city but was sent to the rural area for eighteen years and then retired as a labourer. When he was seventy, the privatisation of factories made him return to the countryside again. Now in his eighties, he is preparing for his own decease.

The film portrays two Lisu brothers aged 10 and 17 living in the Biluo Mountain where Nujiang River passes. After their father died, their mother remarried and settled at the foot of the mountain, leaving the boys to her mother and brother. There is no school on the mountain and kids spend their time shouldering the family chores. Even with the misfortune and hardship, simple happiness is never far from their life.

A personal archive unfolds between France and home through shifting, fragile images. In a small apartment, a bracelet suddenly breaks, altering how everyday events are read and understood. From this point, fragments of memory and distance begin to align. Echoing the Heart Sutra’s “stay away from all upside down dreams,” the film follows a movement where loss and return remain inseparable.

The documentary of ‘Kūkai’ is the first Chinese film to comprehensively present the life and legacy of the renowned Japanese monk Kūkai to a global audience. Known as Kōbō Daishi in Japan, Kūkai braved perilous seas in 804 AD, journeying from Japan to China to study under Master Huiguo, the National Preceptor of three Tang Dynasty emperors. Upon his return to Japan, Kūkai introduced Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, as well as advanced cultural knowledge and technologies from Tang China, writing a luminous chapter in the history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange.

The documentary "Fungi Kingdom" is China's first systematic and comprehensive documentary on fungi. Over the course of two years, the production team ventured deep into primeval forests, using fungi as the narrative focus. Through the lens of a one-square-meter habitat, the ocean on land, and the concept of fungi giving rise to all things, the documentary gradually unveils the mysteries of the fungal kingdom from point, line, to plane, presenting a systematic and holistic perspective. It tells the story of the habitats within national parks—their ecology, the endless cycle of life, their diverse and fantastical nature, as well as the indispensable role fungi play in the ecosystem's cycle.

In the spring of 2022, both the nearby war and the distant war forced me to pause my ongoing work to respond to them—to respond to both at the same time, even treating them as one and the same. Beyond the economy, reality itself has also become globalised. Reality is both accelerated and compressed, shortening the distance between us. This is the sympathetic geology of reality—resonance at a distance, quantum entanglement, remote reverberation. A fundamentally identical force is increasingly twisting the Earth together, violently and suffocatingly. You can see yourself in someone else’s reality. Everything that happened in the spring of 2022 echoed that old cliché: Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

In a street in the north of Shanghai we find a small restaurant, dirty and run-down, but with lots of personality, where Chinese noodles (miantiao) are made 24 hours a day. It’s run by an ethnic Hui Muslim family from the region of Qinghai, in Northwest China. ‘Abierto 24 horas’ presents a chronological account of the 24 hours of life in this establishment.

In China, a high school teacher has introduced a death education class for young students. On the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, they bury unnamed ashes at a public cemetery where they contemplate and contextualize the meaning of death.