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A group of Tibetans are guiding tourists through the beautiful land of Nyanpo Yuzee. One of them, the young herdsman Douke Gyal, curiously observed the interaction between the locals and the outsiders through the lens of his video camera.

An intimate look at three urban artists who share living quarters, examining with wry humor their aspirations and disillusions.

This film focuses on the largest art gathering area in China -- Songzhuang Painter Village China In 2020, Boxer Explosion, those artists who were in trouble were first forced to move out of Songzhuang. Someone moved back to his hometowns, someone looking for another foreign country. More people don’t want to leave the capital and move to Yanjiao, Hebei Province, facing SongZhuang across the Chaobai River or the boundary between Dachang and Sanhe.Of course, many people who still live in Beijing’s Songzhuang Painters Village also face There are many uncertain factors. Ancient west YangGuan no old friend Existing Gone East Outside ChaoBai all home.

As a videographer of the villagers, I felt that this year's epidemic could be recorded, so I held the camera at the village's epidemic prevention duty post and spent it with the villagers.

Liu Haiying, who is praised by patients as the "sword of the world", is a doctor of medicine who grew up during the 80 years of agency thinking. He spent the most important stage of his career in Germany in the mid-1990s, and he developed a rigorous career. Careful and professional character. In many years of medical practice, Liu Haiying often paid out of his pocket to help poor families with severe spinal deformity patients. He knew that if these people did not undergo surgery, they would have organ failure or death waiting for them. However, long-term funding is unsustainable for the economy.Day and night heavy work has made this good doctor with superb medical skills a patient who needs to be taken care of. Colleagues advised him to take more care of his family and body, but he couldn't stop the pace of "saving the wounded." He was still staggering, guarding his life that was hard to give up and saved the wounded.

As a person who has taken art exams, Guo Jiang chose to enter the industry of "art exam training" after graduating from university. His role is that of both an educator and a businessman, although most of the time he prefers to appear as "Mr. Guo". The stage on which Mr. Guo's skills are put to use is a small county in central Henan, which is also his hometown. This documentary is about Guo Jiang's career and life.In short, hovering between the desire and the so-called ideal, adhere to or let go, he needs to make a choice.

This is a documentary about the father of a miner. In 1955, more than 300 young people from Shanghai came to Sanlidong Coal Mine in Tongchuan City, Shanxi Province with the hope and dream of supporting the construction of the Northwest. After 50 years, most of the builders of that year were gone. In the land where black coal is buried, the fate and breathing of the miners are always stirring. The film uses 15 clips to record the old miners, the deceased and the era that is still living in the area, witnessing the tenacity and dignity of life with a group of miners. They are: Shu Guoqi, Gu Longxiang, Shen Longgen, Wang Zhengxiang, Yao Hongchang, Ge Dengfa, Zhang Baisheng, Lu Rongchu, Zhou Shougen, Luo Shijun, Ding Fuzhen, Tong Guang, Gao Zhangshun, Chen Yixiang, Zhu Yongsheng.

The film records a middle-aged woman Han Mei who longs for life. In the fight against the disease, the experience makes her redefine the meaning of life...

Li Songshan, a disabled poet in Lilou Village, Henan Province He lived with sheep every day and gave himself a pen name -- Goateed. Film explores the wonderful intertext between the poetic world of goatee and real life through an award-winning journey and the people around him.

Record the entangled experience for changing the genealogy. Record the experience for engraving movable type, hand-printed.

Mr. Guan is a “grassroots director” who shoots short videos to sell products in Yiwu. “Besides showing you the source of the products, I will also introduce you to the spiritual world of the small characters in China through the products,” he said. Unlike the mainstream model and short-video shooting style of “9.9 yuan, free postage” in Yiwu, he had a dream of becoming “Stephen Chow of Tik Tok in China”. He was determined to show the spiritual world of the small characters in China through short videos. However, as time went on, his ideal blueprint became elusive after the invasion of capitalists. Being lost, he tried to find another way out. To pursue a spiritual world or monetize traffic and gain wealth, which will be his next step?

A young journalist reflects on her own identity as she retraces the footsteps of China’s female teenage soldiers of The Long March and encounters untold stories of courage and hope in the face of extreme deprivation and brutality – a massive military retreat of more than 200,000 troops on foot over 12,500 kilometres that lasted from 1934 to 1937.

The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following their herds across north China. Part Two (28 minutes) gives a more contemporary view of the Mongols trying to reclaim the desert in a more sedentary lifestyle currently encouraged by the Chinese government. The second section highlights disturbing environmental issues regarding the destruction of these northern grasslands.

This documentary is base on the traditional Tibetan pilgrimage culture, and tell a real story about how a 16-year-old boy to realizes his dream of becoming a Tibetan opera actor. Pure, unadorned, yet marvelous, this is the story about faith and spirituality that soar above the Tibetan Plateau; unfolded when the traditional and modern cultural tides clash, and what's more, about the passion of life. He ready to die for his beliefs.

Bu Qinfu, Wang’s mentor and colleague in the Kunming Military Arts Ensemble during the Cultural Revolution, was executed because of her dissent. When the state began to rehabilitate the victims of the Cultural Revolution, Bu’s name was never cleared: the army claimed that she died of illness and the local government described her death as “in the line of duty”. Wang, who witnessed Bu being escorted to her execution, spent ten years searching for the truth. Through extensive interviews with Bu’s fellow prisoners and relatives, Wang reveals the atrocities behind Bu’s death.

Documentary film about the life of blind musician Lan Yue.

The companies Ngan Kong and Ng Teng Kei are classic brands with more than 70 years in Macao. After long, prosperous days, times have changed, bringing numerous problems. One of the properties had no choice but to sell its assets ending a seven decade story. The other one, however, just went in the opposite direction…

A Yi and A Bing are both working in the same company, living in the basement 4 of a luxury building with both business and residence attributes. A Yi went back to his hometown at Sichuan before Chinese New Year, so he could earn double wage for the Chinese New Year duty. The movie records the whole process of him back to home. His home is at a mountain, has elders and kids at home, has many trivial things waits him to settle. A Bing married when he is forty. After finish the marriage outside Beijing, he came back to company. He has no feel to his newly married wife, A Jiao. He still thinks of his ex-girlfriend who has cohabited with him for 3 years.

The film follows the undertaking of one artist to rewrite the Hollywoodesque film – The Assassination of Wang Jingwei (1988) – starting with a trip to Nanjing to a visit a friend named Mr. Liu. It tells the ‘story’ of the appearance and then disappearance of such a controversial figure in history, delving into the discussions, empathy and gossip regarding Wang Jingwai.

The director set a static, hidden camera in a small consulting room and persistently followed visits of a hundred of patients who, in the course of 2008, came to consult.

A documentary on the different places of Chinese and Tibetan exiled intellectuals and activists.

Anthology of three stories about different people in different places.

An animated documentary exploring how a mother's abusive relationship shaped the director's own experiences in boarding school.

Snippets is a video about the sweet reluctance to become an adult in a country where everyone seems to be seeking only status symbols and advancement. Yan Junjie and his friends belong to a new Chinese generation, uncompromising and free, standing apart from mainstream Chinese society. Yan Junije attempts to capture the irrecoverable moments of youth, a time that is destined to be lost. But all he finds are snippets, fragments and pieces of a unique period of being, of the lust for life.

A unique live event restaurant in Chongqing holds a mirror to China – how long will the staff submit to the company philosophy with its authoritarian collectivism?

The largest recycling ground in Beijing is located north of the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), where some 30,000 Henan people live and get rich by collecting the city's garbage. People live in temporary shelters next to piles of garbage, forming a unique "garbage land". The film is made up of independent stories, depicting the process of modernisation before inevitable demolition.

Eighty candidates have passed the written section of China's rigorous civil service exam. This documentary follows them as they spend ten days and nights cloistered in a hotel preparing for the interview portion.

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

In this film, Liu Hua, a female petitioner and survivor of Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp, describes the torture she and other women suffered there.

Xiao Jia is a painter; Xiao Yi is a singer. They are a lesbian couple. They live peacefully together and build a world of two people that is pure and beautiful, yet also fragile and self-enclosed.

This film is a product not of the China of today, but of Red China's Cultural Revolutionary era: a period when the most radical and histrionic thinking strove to turn China's immense population into martyrs for Chairman Mao's ideals. This film, whose original title translates to "The Great Advancement of Mao Tse-Tung's Thinking," was captured by American intelligence in the mid 1960's (who provide the simultaneous translation on the soundtrack). It must have scared the hell out of them, for the film shows Chinese soldiers engaged in strenuous training for post-nuclear attack. The great lie of this film - from the Chinese leaders to their own people - is that the radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast will not kill them. In the film's most haunting scene, we see a Chinese cavalry charge in the Gobi desert into the aftermath of an above-ground nuclear explosion. Both rider and horse are wearing gas-masks! A harrowing look at the unbending will of fanaticism.

On the Nanhai Peninsula, there is a seaside cemetery where the Yang family’s tombs are built on the coastal rocks, facing the water. The director’s grandfather’s family archives mention that he was born on this small peninsula. Around 1949, amidst the various social upheavals, the director’s grandfather and his family members faced divergent fates due to different historical issues. Two decades later, another period of unrest saw him subjected to injustice and brought about his untimely death. Like many of his generation, he left behind only scattered words and fragments of a story that slowly faded from the family’s memory. The director wanders through the lonely graves, ancestral homes and relatives’ houses on the Nanhai Peninsula, sifting through the dust-covered relics in her grandmother’s room as the objects which haunt her hometown undergo a second death.

The result of years of fieldwork and research, "The Daoxian Incident" examines the causes of armed struggle and mass killings in Dao County, Hunan, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Between August 13 and October 17, 1967, 7,696 people were killed and 1,397 were forced to commit suicide. An additional 2,146 were permanently injured or disabled. Most of the victims were labeled “class enemies” and belonged to the so-called “Five Black Categories,” while at least 14,000 people participated in the killings. Through interviews with survivors, participants, and family members, this documentary reconstructs the complex sequence of political campaigns that culminated in one of the bloodiest episodes in the PRC's history.

Inspired by the Chinese internet slang 摸鱼 (mōyú) or “touching fish,” this documentary project delves into the dynamics of work and leisure within Chinese society. MoYu symbolizes a rejection of rat racing, a compromise under societal pressure, an aspiration for freedom, or simply laziness. Focusing on the delicate balance between individuals and their work, the documentary sheds light on the complexities of the Chinese work culture. Blending storytelling with striking visuals, from scenes in The Sims 4 and authentic CCTV footage to everyday moments in modern China — Touching Fish offers a compelling lens on the complexities of Chinese work culture. As it navigates themes of labor, fulfillment, and resistance, the film invites viewers to reflect on their own relationship with work and time. Touching Fish is not just a portrait of a social phenomenon — it's a conversation starter about what it means to live meaningfully in an age of burnout and overwork.

A romantic Lama poet, being influenced by materialistic China, chooses to live a secular life and gets married, thus skillfully avoids the disastrous influence of the materialism on religion.

A documentary about folk music in the Maoshan area.

It’s about an old man, who had a rather hard life. He started off poor, then wealthy; from wealthy to unwell; And from the illness arises his determination to write.” This is what my father told me, the director to say about this film. And as the director, I documented his life which could be missed 9 years ago, and his journey, from where he lived now to his hometown, from life to death.

I used to take metro and ride bike to work during my foreign years. After years now back to my country Tainan, I find myself could only drive or choosing motor bike in the city, because there are so less regular bike lanes, and no bikes on them. It looks I was forced by the city to make the only choice to drive. I goto my 2 friends, one is the bike shop owner and the other is NCKU Urban Plan PHD. I finally understand how to bike in Tianan.

Alms is a cinematic tour through a remote mountain Chan/Zen Buddhist monastery in Southern China. Audiences are guided by the community’s Head Chef (典座 dianzuo) as he explains the traditional cultivation, distribution and ritual offering of food in this traditional Buddhist community. We follow the gathering of local fuels and farmed vegetables, and witness how living members of this community work in harmony with elements of their surrounding naturalenvironment to provide the supportive infrastructure surrounding the Meditation Hall (禪堂 Zendo/Chantang), where a group of cloistered monks devote themselves to meditation practice.

Xiaoxin, an 18-year-old Burmese girl, married a Chinese husband who was more than a dozen years older than her. The camera followed her life for four years, including the sudden birth of a child, her husband's betrayal, washing clothes, cooking, harvesting and planting - the normal life wrapped up like raising silkworms and spinning silk. When an epidemic broke out, where should the Burmese women in the village who had no identity like her go? As fate changes, this film also discusses how a group of girls who left their hometowns can have a home and how to be women.

Story of the steam train and a little gril in the hills of Sichuan province.