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Hu Jie is a prodigious independent Chinese filmmaker who has produced and directed thirty or so documentaries. Also a master of wood engraving, Hu Jie breathes new life into the expressionist tradition of Käthe Kollwitz. In his works — including those produced in Paris for this film — Hu Jie recreates terrifying moments of organized crimes against the Chinese people during the famine of the “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cultural Revolution”. Bertrand Renaudineau’s and Gérard da Silva’s film offers Hu Jie his first chance to tell how he was a wood engraver before becoming a filmmaker; how, he freed the “soul of a young martyr”; and how his prints and documentaries have helped convey the experiences of the Chinese to people all around the world. (René Viénet)

Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society.

The military dependents' village is a special historical product of Taiwan. Contained the cultural identity in its unique space. Now, as the years change, we will once again witness the new occupants built up a new life aesthetic along with the process of the repair and relocation. In the interaction between old and new, continue and innovate the life style and life memory of the village.

Hu Renliang rose to fame overnight thanks to his "AI Grandma" video. When he reunited with his father, whom he hadn’t seen in six years, at their grandmother’s tomb, he witnessed the raw familial affection stirring in his father’s heart, moved by the AI recreation of Grandma. This inspired Hu Renliang to create a more polished version of "AI Grandma" as a gift for his father, hoping it could mend their strained, lopsided father-son relationship riddled with long-standing conflicts.Yet the technical hurdles proved far greater than he anticipated. On top of that, years of lingering resentment, irreconcilable differences in core values, and clashing lifestyles between father and son added countless obstacles to his plan...

For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate and the energy to act have completely vanished, and the opportunity to change is dim and distant. This is an attempt by the filmmaker to reappraise the relationship between himself and the world through external observation and self-reflection.

Because of handling cases involving forced eviction, religion and freedom of expression, Beijing Bureau of Justice prepared to revoke the lawyers' licenses of human rights lawyers Tang Jitian and Liu Wei. On April 22, 2010, the hearing for the revocation of their licenses was held at the office of the Beijing Bureau of Justice. This marked the beginning of a new round of suppression of human rights lawyers. In recent years, the situation regarding human rights lawyers have worsened. They have been sentenced, sent to Re-education through Labor camps, harassed, kidnapped, followed and beaten, and these malignant events are occurring frequently. As voices of the vulnerable, their channels for fighting for justice have been blocked one after the other.

In China, over 69 million children have been left behind by their parents in their home villages while they migrate to big cities to survive. Qui Che (14) was left by his mother with his grandparents. He was 4 years old when his father tragically took his own life due to their financial situation. He grew up lonely with unbearable burdens to help his grandparents with farm work. He vents his difficulties by writing diaries that provide a glimpse into his inner world. His story reveals a personal journey filled with emotional, familial, and societal challenges, especially the absence of his mother, who returns home once in three years. The film is a microcosm of the universal migration tendencies around the world.

Documentary on Heinz Grünberg's own experience of coming to Shanghai as a Jewish refugee when he was 6.

Against the backdrop of the traditional stone quarrying culture of Jinyun County in Zhejiang, The Stone Road traces the development of this craft from the Song Dynasty to the late 20th century. The film captures the daily life and work of the stonecutters, whose labor helped shape the bridges, streets, and houses of the region.

With temperatures falling as low as minus 40ºC on the Tibetan plateau, yak dung is a valuable heating source for Tibetan herdsmen. Filmmaker Dhazey Golog explores how this essential resource provides everything from heat and light, to toys and Buddhist figurines.

Tang lives alone in a cave in the mountains. He spends his days trekking and meeting friends in the local town. While this self-styled hermit has lived for years with almost no money, now he dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Coming down from the mountain, he meets local businessmen and old friends, pitching them a series of outlandish money-making schemes – from a campsite on the rooftop of a local hotel, to a 300-day-long hermit experience for tourists. With a deep urge to live a meaningful life, Tang is confronted by the prejudices of townsfolk who see him as nothing more than a local oddity.

A documentary about small-town youth in Kunshan. They are lonely, worn down, helpless, deceived, marked by searing imprints. They keep trying, striving, struggling, and refusing to give in, their faint light rising like a pillar. Through multiple dimensions and layers, the film deconstructs this group of small-town young people who have come to the city for work: why they came, their work experiences, emotional lives, future plans, and hopes. Note: This film strictly records and objectively presents the lives of these young people. Due to the particularity of the subjects and technical limitations, the image quality and overall texture of the film are relatively rough.

Take a look at our shocking world. We live in an age of violence where inhumanity is becoming commonplace. Accidental deaths are on the rise, and violent crime is on the rise. We have ended the 20th century and we have to wonder if the new millennium will end in chaos, violence and devastation. This documentary will show you horror acts of violence, terrible accidents and many other atrocities...

The Temple Of Violet Bamboo Forest is a Buddhist organization in China's Yueyang City where Master Liao Guo has established an archive of writings and artifacts pertaining to the faith.

A Chinese hotpot restaurant in Antwerp is full of lovers, though it doesn't seem to be at the first sight. The three couples came from different cultural and geographical background. Though their daily routine, off-work gossip, we get into a private cosmos.

Here in The Worldly Cave (Fán Dòng), the Hakka people have all moved away from the place where generations of their families lived. Before the execution of the new development, all the villages on this land will soon be buried into continuous muck dunes. On the open grounds, there stocked huge piles of second-hand machines which would be resold in the southeastern countries. Estate investigation teams gathered in different groups, were talking about the potential prices of the land. After passing some huge muck dunes, between two higher muck dunes, the hunters built their sheltered pits and bird traps in the air. They tied a bee to a transparent string as it would lead them to the beehives hidden in the cracks. Fishermen even found a source of fish in the swamp that connects the groundwater. The men and women in the giant ferroconcrete caves on the clouds were still chattering about the bullfrogs from lunch.

Hong Kong's massive and unprecedented public protests and demonstrations in early July 2003 are documented in July. The film shows individual and mass reactions to the proposed national security legislation. It preserves the speeches, songs, chants, posters, and banners, as well as the atmosphere, for those who were there, and introduces them to those who were not. As such, July is a record of events that could not occur anywhere else in China.

Technology and spirituality are parallel forces in an abandoned and possibly haunted Chinese amusement park taken over by outsider artists. An enigmatic work of a great, dark beauty.

This is the first non-fiction film to document, through real footage, the stories of children seeking help — and finding self-rescue — amid psychological and emotional struggles. Through intimate, unfiltered moments at schools, in families, and inside hospitals, the film captures the children’s interactions with teachers, parents, and doctors. Over the course of five years, the director — a veteran journalist — immersed herself in classrooms, medical institutions, and social organizations, conducting hundreds of interviews with children, parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Drawing from tens of thousands of real cases and records, she uses documentary cinema to explore the urgent question: how can we better understand and support children in their journeys of growth, care, and education?

A love letter to home and an offering to nature, this meditative personal documentary traces Shasha's native roots in Himalayan China as she evacuates from historic wildfires that threaten her home in Cascadian Oregon.

One hundred years ago, Dongjiadu was just the wharf at the Shanghai's Huangpu river bank. There were very few residents around the wharf. Now, Donjiadu is a populous resident area. Its resident population reaches to 95,000 plus the migrant population of 15,000

In the autumn of 2010, the poet Xiaozhao set off from Beijing and took a national tour of his personal poem collection "My Hope is on the Road" printed at a print shop. All the way up and down, full of ambition. Photographer Zhuang Ruijie went to Guangdong halfway to shoot. He recorded a trip to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Shaanxi Shanyang, Huashan, Zhongnanshan, Xi'an and returned to Beijing for about 15 days.

Military educational film on the training of fighting against the enemy with bayonets.

VOWS tells the story of monastic discipline in Chinese Buddhism with narration by Ven. Ming Ying, Senior Prior of Bailin Monastery, and seven ordained monks who recount their journeys from young layman to ordination day. Ven. Ming Ying, formerly the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hebei Buddhist Academy, comments on the historical struggle between lineage and adaptation as the Buddhist monastic tradition took hold in the cultural landscape of China. He offers a thought-provoking narrative on Buddhist discipline as a guide for both monastic and layperson through the difficulties of everyday life in this world.

I always wanted to capture a farmer's feelings toward the corn he has grown for a lifetime in my films, so this is a compilation of footage I shot over twenty years, documenting the entire process from planting to harvesting corn.

Eighteen years ago, the Three Gorges Dam was in the building process. The Zhang family, who lived in the old town of Yunyang had to move elsewhere. One day, the grandfather suffered a stroke and lost his memory. The children returned to look after him. The eldest daughter even bought an apartment and new furniture for her old man. Years later, Grandpa Zhang turned better. It is time to consider how the family should go on. The topic is now focused on the eldest grandson. The relatives ought to worry about his marriage, for he is already 28 years old. Facing this urge, the grandson has then considered pretending to marry his best friend to comfort the family, while living a completely different life in Europe.

A documentary chronicle of the excavation of a Western Han dynasty tomb in Hunan province and the camera-observed autopsy of a remarkably preserved female corpse — a 2,100-year-old noblewoman whose burial goods and condition revealed details of elite life in the Han era.

Before and after the release of the new crown epidemic prevention and control, the two elementary school students on the Sino-Vietnamese border experienced the plight of the times behind the world of the same age and the daily trivialities of the adult world. Becoming a reporter, the two intersect in interviews in their parallel lives, observe the adult world and the world of the same age together in their own observations, and tell about their growth.

The family of Da Mashi (Nu ethnic group) has lived on the cliff of Nujiang for 100 years. To plant potatoes on the slope, the local people have to place a fistful of weed with the potato; otherwise it will roll down from the slope into the river. Nujiang had been beyond social revolution, with no contact with the outside world but the annual relief by the government until the 1990s. In addition, having been isolated for a long time, the Nu people believe that Gods exist in the mountains, rivers and brushwood. In 2000, with the promotion of the national poverty support policy and ecological protection policy in the Three Parallel River Area, Da Mashi's family was faced with a new option for survival. That's intriguing.

Documentary about Gertrude Du-Wagner, an Austrian woman who married a Chinese policeman in the 1930s and raised a family on a farm in eastern China.

Traditional Chinese medicine is known as the quintessence of China and one of the important intangible cultural heritages of mankind. The documentary《Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine》is a popular science documentary on the history of intangible cultural heritage. Starting from the source of human medicine, it expounds the whole process of the origin, development, maturity, decline and return of Chinese medicine. It reveals the inheritance and development relationship between TCM and medical sages such as Fuxi, Yan Emperor, Huang Emperor, Qi Bo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, Ge Hong, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen. It also explains the integration and development relationship between Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Miao medicine and other minority medicine.

After 5-years' observation and recording, the director screened the entire process of villager autonomy of Dongpo Village in the suburb of Chengdu under the background of urbanization and the promulgation of organic law of villager committee. The film focuses on the villagers’ growing participation in political life and the running of their village.

Sixteen years ago, a human trafficker broke into Wu Xinghu’s house and took his 13-month-old son. Since then, he has been on a relentless journey to find his son. In July 2023, Wu Xinghu reached out to Wang Meizhi and Wu Xuexian, the parents of another trafficked child, and they decided to meet up in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to look for their kids together in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Hebei Provinces. During the search, Wu Xinghu’s parents passed away one after another, while Wu Xuexian’s child was miraculously found and rescued. This only fueled Wu Xinghu’s resolve to find his own kid.

Story of an old tea house at the old village of Digu. What will happen to it at our moder times?

This is a film about change. In the spring of 2004, three young men, Xin'er, Xiu'er and Shasha, have to undergo a sex change operation in Changchun to transform themselves into the women they have longed for. Another clue is that in the process of Xinyi's and Xiu'er's "butterfly transformation", a bridge in Changchun, built during the period of the Manchus, is also blown to pieces by a violent means - demolition. It was blown to smithereens. A new bridge was quickly built on the same site. In today's world, both individual people and society as a whole sometimes use the most violent and bloody means to transform themselves, perhaps for the sole purpose of looking good.

Tang Tang is a personal story of sexual role reversal in modern-day Bejing: Tang Tang is a normal man during the day, but at night switches his persona and becomes a woman. His transformation is so complete that he is able to perform on stage and make a living in bars all over Beijing. Though his lifestyle is far from the norms of Chinese society, he feels no disgrace or dishonor. Tang Tang is is not just about gay and lesbian relationship but, more importantly, about the constant reversals in life: to live or to die, to be male or female and, to love or to hate. We often think that reality is fixed, but tomorrow brings reversal. What you consider as reality is just the outer appearance.

Documentary about the first and second generations of Chinese immigrants, who have mainly ended up working in Asian restaurants across the country.

Fang Junrui is a 30-year-old hospital guard who lives in an old tiny flat with his parents in the center of Shanghai. He has been passionate about relic restoration but couldn’t find a related job for years. That has led to his disappointment in life. He routinely buys arts and history books but runs out of space to store them, irritating his parents who own the flat. Things started to change when a friend from the church and the film director came to his life. He felt like that his life was moving again at God’s will.

After a traumatic failure at a competition, platform diver Farrah retraces and reconciliates with her past through a stream-of-consciousness journey across space and time.