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1998 documentary production from Inner Mongolia Television Station on the history and culture of Mongolian wrestling.

A bowl of noodles is like a legend. Taihe Banmian is a specialty snack in Anhui Province, which has won the favor of diners with its unique craftsmanship and delicious taste. The documentary "Banmian Jianghu" deeply explores the story and heritage of Taihe Banmian.

Documentary on five old ladies living in the same nursing home.

This documentary explores the concept of space in two distinct parts. The first captures the bustling flow of commuters at a busy intersection in Xixiang, Shenzhen. The second depicts the working scenes inside a factory workshop in Huangbao, Tongchuan.

After spending many years in the city, a Tibetan man named BaWu returns to his long-abandoned pastoral homeland with a heavy heart. As soon as he arrives home, he encounters his younger brother, who has just returned from herding cattle. In the awkwardness of familiarity mixed with estrangement, they work together to return a lost foal to its owner, subtly rekindling the bond of their old familial ties.

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.

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.

Unable to sleep, a young man is lured into the woods by a mysterious sound. He follows it across a river, through forest and shadows, until he finally comes upon the red curtains of a travelling funeral performance stage.

The Disc is a true record of a conversation between two female friends, from which the audience can get a glimpse of the conflict between mainstream nuclear families and sexual minorities. The movie combines video recording, animation, and image re-creation in an attempt to create a multi-dimensional experience of documentary images.

A documentary short.

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

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.

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.

Documentary film completed in 1994, shot over two weeks, about one of the main production areas of jujube fruits in China, Lujiazhuang village on Taihang Mountains. The original version of the film is 55 minutes long; later, a shorter, 30-minute version was released. The credits on the original film list Wang Zijun, Wang Haiping, and Yang Yang as co-directors.

Story of Fletcher Hanks trying to search Plane 53, a World War II vintage freight plane that crashed March 11, 1943, while flying the supply route from northeast India over the Himalaya Mountains to China. From his first attempt in 1944 to finally located the wreckage in 1997.

This is an installation documentary created in 2015. The quiet process of making boxes indoors reflects the author's patience and caution, the narration when the screen is black reflects the author's familiarity and confidence in what he wants to express, and the dodging perspective and trembling picture when facing the crowd outdoors reflect the photographer's cramped and alienated. A lot of things happened after 2015, and the film was re-edited. The current version has almost used the best materials of that year.

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.

The two films: < The Cormorant and the Lake> and < The Old Man and the Lake> follow the life of a fisherman or a lake guardian who are away from the modernization while leading a simple peaceful life incoherent to the Nature. It unfolds to the audience how important role of traditional culture in protecting the environment and how important the environment is.

"Sovereignty at Stake" is a groundbreaking CGTN documentary that explores the complexities of the South China Sea issue, addressing global inquiries on this contentious topic. Through individual narratives and authoritative interviews, the documentary offers valuable insights into the historical background, legal principles and geopolitical dynamics.

Jinshan Temple is the only Buddhist temple built on water in China, which dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), almost a thousand years in the past. Observant Buddhist believers often converge here to perform a rite known as "fangsheng", or "life release", which refers to the practice of saving animals from captivity and releasing them into the water. The film tries to form a slice of the history of this eternal artificial architecture through ecology, geography and folklore. A Gopro camera was tied to a turtle that was released in the river to inspect the underwater space of the temple.

This tells the real life stories of four queer Hong Kong (trans)migrants born in the 1980s, for whom the experience of immigration and diaspora is intertwined with childhood memories of Hong Kong under the no longer existing British colonial rule. This reconstructs their nostalgic homes in virtual reality (VR), that draws attention to diasporic narratives and cultural archives through the process of cognitively metaphorical ‘returns’.

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

On November 28, 1820, Engels was born into a family of factory owners in Wuppertal, a small town in the Rhine Province of Germany. He received a good education since he was a child. Although he was born into a family of factory owners, Engels was very sympathetic to the working people and often gave the money he saved to the poor. These actions aroused his father's dissatisfaction, resulting in a very tense relationship between father and son. The film crew visited Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, etc. country, photographed the actual places where Engels lived and worked, and invited authoritative research scholars at home and abroad to interpret his life. ■

This is the first film in a series of works by the artist to engage with ways of coming to knowledge of the ecosystems of language. Its Chinese title translates directly as "the sky rained grain," the phrase used by the legendary Cangjie to describe the creation of Chinese characters, as recorded in the Huainanzi. Its first short film, but this is the language we met in, is where trees, teeth, and spoken words cross beyond the threshold of re-relating. Many elements in the film are of a learning process, of a word’s relation to language, a language’s expression to another, of wood in room returning to tree in soil, of teeth evoking bone memories — its 400 million year evolution from fish scales, of working together, and of a new story revealing itself. Instead of coming to terms with or tracing the complexity of a loss, the series proposes a different position in relation to the pain of losing.

The CCTV New Year's Gala, also known as the Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan in short) is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Central Television (CCTV). The program is a variety show, often featuring music, dance, comedy, and drama performances, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's most watched television program.

Documenting Grandpa Wang's life in the preceding days of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The driver suddenly turned to look at me and said: Why aren't you filming? It was my second elder sister who had already passed away. After her death, I began to keep a diary and take pictures. When I got a video camera, I began to film the daily life of my family. I filmed out of the fear of death and loss. The idea was to capture everything on film before it disappeared. 2015 was the 20th anniversary of my sister's death. That dream seemed to tell me to face her death. Death did not stop the passing of time, and the family members I was filming continued to avoid their grief which hadn't subsided with time. Birth and death continue to alternate in our lives, and we are always getting ready for the day when we must say goodbye.

Numerous planes of different sizes and shapes make up the three dimensional system. Increase and decrease of the number of planes are used to describe the physical change of the human body. When there are so few planes, the boundary between a person and a slice of plane becomes thin. Revolving between the morbid loner and the periodic insanity of the neighbor, the story reveals itself in reality and in abstract.

Trans woman? Homosexual? Pansexual? Beijinger? Geek girl? Beatbox？Christian? Game addict? Actress? Bean pole? Cosmetic surgery failure? Long haired? Flirt? How many more tags to you need to fully understand her? Let us enter the world of Sisi together.

This film documents the real-life situations of live-streaming influencers, fans, and practitioners on Kuaishou in Guangzhou, China, in 2022.

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.

The second part of the documentary trilogy "Northwest Lu", "Alzheimer" focuses on the state of life of the elderly in their twilight years, mainly by showing the relationship between mother and daughter (there are also a part of mother and child relationship) to describe the real state of life of the elderly in their twilight years; it also describes the daily conversations between the grandparents and the life imagery hidden in the details of life; Alzheimer is not a disease, but just a part of the elderly walking through life. Alzheimer's is not a disease, but just a part of the life of the elderly, which is equivalent to the process of the reverse growth of life consciousness, and to look down on the boundaries of life and death; in addition to this, there is also the significance of the quietness of the cozy village life.

The film observes life of several shaolin monks and serbian young female anthropologist who came to conduct fieldwork. With so much chaos in today’s world, can these insiders and outsiders find the buddhist inner peace and the ending of suffering here?

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.