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The documentary "The Garden" focuses on the "old city renovation" project of BaDaHu Residential area in Qingdao. After the film was released online, the renovation project of this residential area became the only illegal demolition activity that was stopped in China in 2010. A special report by China Central Television revealed that this project was demolished and built without government approval by impostor, fictitious official letter.

The science and education film "Abyss - The Essence of Cults" produced by Beijing Science Education Film Studio, with rigorous and realistic scientific spirit, various artistic techniques, through a large amount of scientific knowledge, vivid strength, and detailed information, comprehensive and profound It thoroughly analyzes the nature and harm of cults, and is a shocking and thought-provoking work of caution. The film uses a large number of little-known materials to disclose the truth of "People's Temple", "David", "Sun Temple", "Falun Gong" and other cult organizations seeking money and killing people Various means and the evil nature of cults are anti-human, anti-science and anti-social. During the use of a large number of high-tech means such as three-dimensional animation, it is a perfect combination of science, art and education.

Datong, the mining capital of the Shanxi province. Bai Budan interviews miners, the invisible auxiliaries of Chinese society in the throes of change.

It’s an extraordinary opening scene: the view from within a tomb under construction. We see people at work, and others watching—holding mugs of tea, or a child on their lap. Filmmaker Sanshou Hu introduces these people, and himself. In the town where he was born, he and his family are following an age-old tradition by building a tomb for his grandparents.

Li Bing is a Buddhist nun who has worked for years to set up schools for local children in ethnically-Tibetan regions. In September 2016, she helped set up the Songhe Mani Tent School and hired two teachers, Gan Ge and Lhamo. The local incarnate Buddhist Lama has problem with their behaviors. In March 2017, as the new semester starts, the villagers come up with all sorts of excuses to demand that Lhamo be removed as teacher at the school. As Lhamo is forced to leave, Li Bing decides to remove Gan Ge too, as well as all the tents that serve as the school’s dormitory.

Film by Wu Haohao

The Third Front movement described by sons of workers who relocated in Gansu.

In this documentary, we follow the twenty-three families strong nomadic Guoshan tribe, a sub-group of Yaos. They follow a thousand year old tradition of selecting a new temporary home every two or three generations, usually distancing themselves from their previous temp-home by several hundreds of miles. Provided now with a substantial piece of land for them to build their own permanent village and farm their own land, the tribe's leader as well as thirty members decide to precede the tribe's move. Although they have a strong sense of community they are used to operating individually for their survival. In this instance, as they learn to become farmers, it has been decided between them to operate under a collective scheme, just as in the early days of China's communist revolution.

The film was shot over four years. A woman — from Hui'an, Fujian province — finds out that her husband has become infected with a venereal disease. She takes out her revenge on the local hotel and the barber shop (which are known as sites of secret prostitution in the city) by setting four explosives. Da Yi's film tries to understand why a kind, virtuous wife and mother turns to this extreme act.

This documentary concerns the growth of a particular child. Dajun and Xiaomei are a pair of siblings who live with their father and grandfather after their mother went to work in Shanghai. Without the presence of a motherly figure, both children gained more playtime but there seemed to be a conspicuous lack of motherly love and care. Nontheless with her frugal grandfather, their farm animals and the talented craftsmen of their hometown, Xiaomei's childhood has just began.

The Cold Winter was shot from the end of 2009 to early 2010, and focuses on the struggle of artists near Beijing’s famous Chaoyang District 798 Art Zone to protect their land and studios from demolition by developers. During the exceptionally cold winter of the title, the artists formed the “Warm Winter Plan” movement as a means of defending their rights and raising public awareness, being subjected to threats and brutal violence in the process.

The second in Wang Haibing’s ‘Three Families’ trilogy (which also includes 1991’s Northern Tibetan Family and 2000’s Days in the Mountains) -- all of which won the Sichuan International TV Festival “Golden Panda” award in their years of premiere. This is the story of an ordinary farmer in the mountainous Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, a place called Fankuai. The river flowing through Fankuai is called Qianhe, and upstream of the Qianhe River is the town of Bailixia. There is no road or electricity in the Bailixia area; and the only means of transportation is boats. The mountain people use the boat to carry their goods and freight their living supplies. Nowadays, though, a new road leads up to the mountain area — the boatmen’s livelihood may end with the opening of this road, and so the boatman and his family are faced with new choices.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; and his enthusiastic but disorganized guerilla dance troupe. Li's chaotic life becomes inseparable from the act of taping it, as if his experiences can only make sense on screen. Tape shatters documentary conventions, utilizing a variety of approaches, including guerilla documentary, experimental street video, even CGI. Tape captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

An exploration of the fundamental principles of Taoism and their connections with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Second part of the Mare Senki (Malaya War Record) series produced by Nihon Eigasha in 1942. While the first installment documented the Japanese advance through Malaya, Birth of Syonan-to portrays Singapore under occupation after its fall in February 1942. The film shows the renaming of the city to Shōnan-tō (“Light of the South”), Japanese victory celebrations, military parades, and efforts to depict the transformation of the colony under Japanese rule. Designed as a propaganda feature, it aimed to legitimize occupation and emphasize Japan’s leadership in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Interview on Chinese children's table tennis training in several primary. Tracing the origin and fabrication of a national mythology and it's influence over people's daily life and memory. The interview with children and teacher was mixed with the documents of the history of how this sport was introduced into china, and it's relationship with Chinese political history.

Documentary on Feng Tianyue, who developed a computer input method "码根码" (Ma Gen Ma) for Chinese and used an extreme method to promote it by doing graffiti on Beijing streets.

An unmarried Beijing filmmaker facing pandemic setbacks and family pressure launches a 100-day quest: secure funding for a documentary on cultural inheritors. Amidst skepticism about her lifestyle and project's relevance, she documents her soul-searching journey challenging societal expectations.

Aired as part of People's Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television, a story of the wife's 14-year wait for her husband to get out of the jail.

The TV documentary made for the one year death anniversary of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama.

Documentary about the construction of Baoji–Zhongwei railway.

The ancient craft of horsetail embroidery empowers Shui women while connecting with the global fashion scene.

Documentary about the 12-year girl who suffered from uremia and needed a kidney transplant to continue her life.

“Tian Tong Yuan” is the life of the group-renting north drift graduates in Beijing. With my 4-month exprience living there together with them, I shoot this documentary, which describes the life of the north drifts graduates living in cellar. It reveals tha fact under the big pressure in finding jobs and high house prices, the 'ant tribe' have to live in a poor condition and have to face the great contrast between the dream after university graduation and the true world.For them, the glory of 'the chosen one' had already faded away and the life of being a 'north drift' make them struggle for survival. How to climb out of the underclass is the qusetion just as how to move out of their cellars, making them entangled every day. It is also worth thinking that can knowledge really change fate?

In democratic countries, the media is the mouthpiece of the public. However, in a Shenzhen TV station where protecting the interests of the Party trumps all, reporters are merely mouthpieces of the government. 'First Spot' is a TV programe that investigates social disparities in the community, but most of their coverage is 'buried' away. The film follows the daily operations of the TV station and hits the streets with the reporters who attempt to unveil the city and its people in all its different forms and faces.

The film explores a piece of a family past from a hundred years ago. Through the narration of a photo album by one of the family members, a history of regional migration caused by social changes is revealed. From hallucination, the protagonist's nostalgia for old photos and longing for the past merge into one.

The People’s Commune Assembly Hall was an iconic site for political gatherings and propaganda during China’s national collectivisation period between the 1950s and 1980s. Its physical space, the projected space and the reconstructed filmic space are juxtaposed, amplifying the inherent narrative capacity of the commune hall.

Born in a remote mountain village, Lan is a transgender woman missing home but unable to return to it.

Regarding the lives and struggles of feminists Li Maizi and Xiao Meili, she took her home for the first time to meet her father

This film depicts Li Rong, a modern rural youth, and through his continuous efforts, he never forgets his original intention. He went to the city to seek more opportunities and better development. Faced with the pressure of urban life, he did not compromise with life. Faced with family pressure to get married, he also pursued his own love. After Li Rong found a job in the city, he worked seriously, diligently and steadfastly, winning the respect of his colleagues and the appreciation of his boss.

The documentary The Last Year of Darkness is a tantalizing portrait of the underground scene in Chengdu, China. Now IDFA is bringing that scene to real life at an Amsterdam club. This dance event will feature scenes from the hundreds of hours of raw material and music by the film’s stars and editor.

Xiao Nong is a young farmer who has worshiped his ancestors from the time he was a child. When he prays to his ancestral spirits and his mother is not healed, he gets disillusioned. As a friend tells him the the good news, an animated Zhuang-style cartoon tells the gospel story from creation to Christ. He believes in Jesus, his life is changed, and he begins to tell his friends and family about his new faith.

Li Sheng Zhao was born in a landlord family in Sichuan. He used to be a soldier, and then became a student in the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in the spring of 1961. After he became a rightist, Mr. Li was escorted to his hometown of Long Chang County in Sichuan province. He observed that people were dying with hunger in his way to hometown. With his investigative experience in army, Mr. Li was called for conscience and justice, and started a private investigation. He braved the risk of death to write this hunger report to the central party committee leaders, requesting them to take measures to save the country. Although he received a reply from Ma Yin Chu, the former president of Peking University, and Deng Zi Hui, the former vice premier of the State Council, this did not prevent him from becoming a counter-revolutionary and getting into jail for 18 years.

The sounds of nature: the chirping of insects, the calls of birds, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the gurgling of rivers, the buzz of lumberjacks' chainsaws, and the noise of excavators...