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Han Wangxi, nearly 70 years old, has spent months digging a five- to six-meter-deep hole in the riverbank of Moba Gorge in Longnan, China, searching for gold. He carefully sifts sand from the rock and washes it repeatedly, hoping to find even tiny pieces of gold. On good days, he finds gold the size of a needle, but on bad days, he finds nothing. Despite his struggles, he remains convinced that gold lies beneath the clear water. However, he is worried about losing his home when a reservoir is built in the area.

The Hungarian Camera, also known as the Communist State Camera, is dedicated to my dear parents, and to my compatriots who were persecuted and unjustly died in all the campaigns! And their great faith in surviving for their children.

After his divorce, 50-year-old Laozhu had been living in the mountains of Beijing suburb with his girlfriend Xiaowang. For this, the Beijing Zhongyuan family church regarded it as adultery and refused to issue him the Holy Communion. Then, Laozhu had a Christian wedding ceremony and began to host a Bible-reading group at his home in the city. In the beginning, the members increased gradually, but due to different understandings of the belief, Laozhu conflicted with them continuously, from in the city to up the mountain. This led to the decrease of the member-number. As the lease expired, the church was forced to move around in restaurants and bathing centers… In the end, the church disappeared and the members scattered everywhere…

Documentary about a mother trying to find the cure for her autism son and started Stars and Rain Education Institute to help parents with autism children.

On March 1993, the Daguan Village in Jilin Province started to re-elect the members for the Village Committee. It was the first time for them to use the write-in election process.

An animated documentary about the life experiences of people with vitiligo.

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 ubiquitous loudspeakers, television propaganda and slogans in towns and villages are constantly instilling the will of the powers that be and the alienation of thinking in the minds of the people. Men, women, and children of all ages are trapped in a huge brainwasher-like airbag promoted by propagandists, and they roll forward and backward.

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.

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......

Xiaolong and Tala were ruffians who feel pound walking on the street. Tala stole a DV, Xiaolong fell in love with the girl in the DV tape. By chance, he met her, Yu Qian, a girl who was studying drawing. She studied in the same studio as Wang Hui. When developing friendship with Xiaolong, she indeed loved her teacher. The thirst and shyness for love has cast shadow on the young girl's life. And Wang Hui had also lost in the swirl of love and jealousy. Tala hurt someone and had to run away police. Xiaolong helped Tala's escape, and asked gang members to resolve the problem. Tala had once again returned the town.

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.

This film tells the story of a father (the director himself) who was trapped at home during the COVID-19 epidemic. In order to improve his relationship with his son, he took the initiative to bathe and wash his hair. The 3-year-old son has an "Oedipus complex". He is too attached to his mother and inexplicably resists his father, which makes his father a little jealous.

During the period from 2011 to 2013, The Physical Guerrillas created, lived and thought with a porcelain doll disease. Focusing on the live performance of 《Limbs》, the state of the folk theater troupe of that period is presented around the front and back of the stage.

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.

What if Putin’s Russia in 2022 had never happened? Such is the hypothesis of this historical-hysterical dystopia, partly generated by AI, and driven by our political unconscious.

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’.

Having existed for over two thousand years, the Guqin is one of China's most original string instruments. In the year 2019, the 82-year-old Guqin master, Wong Duo, reluctantly performed in his hometown of Suzhou, where his lifelong dedication to the revival of traditional silk string style has made him a minority among the predominant steel string players. To support him, Li Guo, Wong's youngest disciple whose playing strongly echoes that of her master's, invited Wong to give a truly authentic Guqin concert in the modern cosmopolitan of Shenzhen, in order to reach a larger and more diverse audience.

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.

This is the story that happened two days before and after my cousin's wedding. Because the Taoist said my zodiac was bad and would bring bad luck to the wedding, I had to stay alone in a room. The door of that room became the only channel for me to communicate with the outside world at that time. The people and things you can see are also the whole world I can see. (Zonghua Li)

In this work, the artist borrows the figure of Sophon from Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem to envision an alien anthropologist’s journey to Earth.

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.

Documentary director Chen Jiaping is also a poet. He used his mobile phone to record the most authentic and vibrant lives of poets in this era. Poets Ma Hua, Ma Yan, and Hu Xudong passed away at a young age, symbolizing the beginning of the decline of poets born in the 1970s. Kun Niao, a poet from the 1980s, leads an unstable life, and neither of his parents attended his wedding. Chen Jiaping plans poetry events for the post-90s young poets, and young poet Zhang Xiaozhen finds this very meaningful. However, when his father comes to Beijing, facing Chen Jiaping's poetry and family life, it is nothing short of a judgment on his existential ethics.

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

If there is no utopia on the map of this world, then this world is not worth considering. Independent documentary director Sun Zhiqiang has always maintained a firm belief in Utopia, and has regarded it as his consistent state of existence and creative practice guidelines. From the first part of "The Edge of Freedom" to the "Utopia" ", Sun Zhiqiang has always focused his camera on the group of people living on the edge of freedom in the underground rock circle, faithfully witnessing their changes over the past ten years. In "Utopia", we not only experience a journey in the lives of these musicians, but we also learn about the things around them and the wider environment.

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.

This is a story about Yang Yang, a lonely deaf girl who's finding friends, and about the director, Yuen Nanhsi, who meets her by chance. Their lives intertwine with each other, revealing the difficulties the youth face and their longing for the future.

Rong Geng was born in a family of calligraphy and eunuchs in Dongguan in the late Qing Dynasty. He was a pioneer in the field of ancient philology in our country. This documentary adopts the shooting method of combining biography and current reality, closely follows the theme of "home and country in the half-life collection", and tells the feelings of Rong Geng's family and country through the perspective of Mr. Rong Geng's descendants.

Thirty-year-old Sisi is a World Boxing Council Asia Title champion and the mother of a three-year-old boy. Not only will she have the opportunity to fight in a potentially career-changing International Boxing Federation match, she will also be taking full-time care of her son. Sisi was born and raised in a conservative family who believe—as many do in China—that motherhood is a woman’s most important job. After her son was born, Sisi suffered severe postnatal depression. Boxing became her way out, away to show the world she existed. With her athletic career reinvigorated, Sisi is constantly dodging accusations about her life choices. Can Sisi win inside and outside of the ring?

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?

2016 Auntie Li's 16-year-old daughter was raped and killed at the New Oriental Foreign Language School in Beijing. in February 2018, the murderer filed an appeal and she came to Beijing to seek justice for her daughter. Finding her daughter's belongings lost at the school, she was turned away from the school. She hated the murderer and couldn't forgive herself or let go of her daughter

Education ranks high on the list of every family’s priorities. Filmed over the course of an academic year, this is the story of the problems plaguing an ordinary middle school and the various coping strategies employed by teachers, parents and children. As they seek out individual solutions to a shared concern, they sometimes end up hampering each other’s best efforts.

In order to finish her homework, the girl decided to shoot a fake documentary. In the process, she came closer to her grandmother's world and found herself.

The short film recorded a group of children living status in a brick factory.Their parents work here to earn money.Because of the language barrier, living habits and economic conditions, they didn't go to school. But they are living in a wonderful time and they have extraordinary ability to survive......