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This acclaimed observational documentary produces an immersive experience of a Shenzhen factory. An unmissable analysis of the most important social transformation of our time.

Extras is a 2001 fly-on-the-wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been said to be tinged with social criticisms in its observations of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras.

A Rebel Without a Cause for a new generation, and one of the most defiant children to ever grace the big screen, 14-year-old Hai is a teenage terror, a high school dropout and an all-around badass. He is also entirely irresistible. You cannot take your eyes off this kid, complete with a motorbike and an everpresent cigarette butt drooping from the corner of his mouth. (Dorothy Woodend, DOXA Documentary Film Festival)

It was February 2012, on a crowded Spring Festival train traveling from Guangzhou to Dazhou, Sichuan. A green passenger train was packed with travelers. A railway police officer walked through one overcrowded carriage after another, keeping watch over the passengers. During the patrol, the officer crossed paths with a young woman. Then, the crowded carriages gradually became empty. The train picked up speed. No one knew where it was truly headed.

Documentary made for Oriental Time • Living Space program about Luo Hanghong, a man with disability but managed to run an electronic devices factory.

Documentary short about primary school students going to army for the school military training. Aired as the episode 39 of People's Home (百姓家园) program.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

In 2017, a large-scale urban renewal project displaced Grandma, a woman nearing ninety years old, from her home. She is forced to live with each of her three children on a rotating monthly basis. This situation leads to numerous adjustments, discomfort, and misunderstandings between Grandma and her children.

The film takes Guangzhou-based independent music label "Qiii SnacksRecords" as a lens to show how this mosquito-sized label stirs up the city’s indie music scene through DIY music practices, rebuilding connections between people and with the "nearby."

Walking into the historical and cultural block, Liu Xing Street in Yining City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the streets and alleys resemble a hexagonal puzzle. In this community, residents from 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Hans, Huis, and others, live together.

In this documentary, 90 percent of the film was shoot by the director‘s cellphone. It depicts the ordinary and fragmentary life in such a materialisticmetropolis as Shanghai. In the film, Humphrey lives with his girlfriend (Olivia)in a rental in Shikumen, central Shanghai. Their story begins with a separation…

A middle-aged couple living in Suzhou played a "divorce" at home, recalling the sweetness of having met each other, and the triviality of life now seems to contrast, but it is the inevitable trend of life. A man who loves playing cards and does not care about his family but has a good temper, also walked into the kitchen after his wife fell ill and picked up POTS and pans; A woman who is worse than her word and takes care of her family, even if she is dissatisfied with her husband, will be aroused again by a missing letter from her youth. They face each other's gaps and problems, and finally choose to tolerate and continue, life is riddled with holes, but they do not give up life.

Documentary about people fighting against cancer.

Documentary on the two generations of the boatmen.

Documentary about the Mosuo people, an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.

Qiu Zhijie spent five years copying Wang Xizhi’s (303–361) Lantingxu (‘Preface to the Orchid Pavilion’) one thousand times. The video shows the artist writing calligraphy with an ink brush. As the black ink fills the paper, the strokes lose their distinctiveness, and the text becomes illegible. Eventually, only a black rectangular field remains.

In the heart of Binshe village, Shaoxing, an ancient tradition unfolds each year — a three-day celebration honouring a local goddess with the haunting melodies of The Story of Pipa, performed exclusively by female Yue opera artists. As the villagers intertwine myth, history, and devotion, the lines between reality and legend blur, revealing a tale where music bridges worlds and ancestral echoes linger on sacred stones.

The local government of Liaoning province restricted the fishing time for jellyfish on one of the days between July 15th and 30th, this is the documentary on those fishermen waiting the confirmed date to come.

From a personal perspective, this documentary presents the history of the local church alongside an individual’s life story.

Documentary about the lone soldier who works as a cattle herder on the Horqin grassland.

Told through oral narration, this documentary retraces the life of Wang Yufeng, an 87-year-old retired teacher.

Told through oral narration, this documentary retraces the life experiences of Tong Kang, a Shanghai miner who was sent to support frontier development.

Documentary on a special policewomen team. Later adapted into a fiction TV series of the same name in 2000.

"Secrets of China's Three Armies" is a late 80s PRC military documentary film co-produced by the August 1st Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Hong Kong Silver Capital Company.

Through fragments of everyday speech, this documentary constructs an alternate dimension of portraits for characters featured in earlier films. These previously unused materials—marked by the repetition of certain words—reveal deeper layers of social and environmental context.

Public Service video released during a rash of parasitic infections.

A documentary short.

A 1993-made China's videotape help you to become an expert to identify real gold and silver. There are six parts of this video: 1. Appraisal skills and methods of using tools (29 min.) 2. Gold identification method (55 min.) 3. Silver identification method (22 min.) 4. Silver dollar and silver coin identification method (18 min.) 5. Improvement and development of identification technology (16 min.) 6. Introduction to some gold and silver coins in ancient and modern China (16 min.)

Documentary on a family of Nu ethnic group.

Ren Shulin's graduation film, shot on 16mm during a summer camp in July 1982.

A documentary from Maoist china which aimed to demonstrate the suffering of the working people under the old society. It was based on an exhibition in Shandong province.

Film about the life and artistic career of old Wang Luobin, whose whole life was dedicated to collecting and performing folk songs from Northwest China. SONGS OF THE PAST takes the legendary musician to the place of his youth, where he brings back memories of the past and talks about his musical views.

Is it easy for a person's small wishes to come true? For example, if a mother doesn’t remember her birthday, how can she find it? For example, when an old aunt looks at her son who has been paralyzed in bed for forty years, who will take care of him? For example, if an uncle who misses his wife confides in front of her grave, will he get a response? For example, the hard-working sister-in-law hopes that the day of no more domestic violence and a better life will come sooner... In this invisible web of love, everyone carries their own obsessions and strives to fight against forgetfulness.

At the beginning of 80's in 20th century the discarded old metals called foreign garbage began to appear here,and then were carried to the nearby Fengjiang Town for dismantling . At the present time, Fengjiang Dismantling Industrial Park founded by Taizhou City has expanded to more than 1600 acres. More than 200 enterprises altogether take on the improvement trade for import of scrap metals inside the park ,where a great deal of migrant workers pour and go in for metal dismantling. The dioxin pollution for local soil has been detected here by Chinese research mrvhsnidm for the first time. As one of the most poisonous materials up to now, the dioxin pollution could extend to the range in dozens of square kilometers.

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.

Yang’s father was sent to prison when she was 13. The Children’s Village, a shelter for children of criminals, took her in and provided her with basic education. However, Yang did not feel at home there. She hoped to one day leave the village and for that day to arrive soon. Yang managed to leave the Children’s Village before reaching 18. Yet just after celebrating her 18th birthday in the city, she suddenly vanished without notice. No one knew of her whereabouts. Director Hu tried to trace her with his camera, following clues that might lead him to her. Little by little, through this process, he was able to understand Yang various choices in life.

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.

Wulong City was divided by a mountain river until the first bridge was built in 1980. In local areas there is a mania for the endless connection of the two coasts.