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The film, as a crystal of seven years observation and three years shooting, recounts the social changes of Xiaoluoshui, a Mosuo village by the side of Lugu Lake in Yunnan Province of China. With the emergence of commodity economy and tourism, obvious changes have been brought to the village within a few years. They rest not only on the surface, but also in people’s confusions, pains and paradoxes at the advent of the tremendous social reform.

On August 21, 1942, while the Japanese "Expeditionary Team" immediately retreated with ground troops, they scattered anthrax on fields, grasses, and crops in urban residential areas along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi traffic. People along the route mostly depend on farming for their livelihoods, so at the same time, many people crippled and died with rotten feet. According to incomplete statistics, there are only more than 160 suspected germ warfare survivors in Quzhou, Zhejiang. This film focuses on these surviving elderly people. When 70 years have passed since the war and a new chapter of history opened, what kind of lives are the old people who are victims? What kind of mental state are you in? Will the wounds left over from the war heal? What is the attitude towards war?

This film is about the story of the main character and his younger brother, the younger brother saw the comic book of the main character, in his brain, he had a fight of animal chess related to memory. The younger brother belongs to the green party, the elder brother belongs to the orange party, at last the elder brother lost and the younger brother won in his consciousness, the younger brother took the elder brother to see the future elder brother in the heart of the younger brother.

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.

Strange boy was a child picked up by guangbin when he was young. He was raised, but one day his biological parents found him and took him away. At that time, guangbin was not at home, and there was no address left, only a phone number left. Guangbin has since made a phone call to guangbin every few days, and there is only answering the phone, never replying. One day, he was reminded by the landlord that he met a strange poet who was also a doctor in the villagers' mind. The doctor told him many things he had never heard. He had more questions and seemed to be the answer. After the strange boy returned to the original family, the original family had been broken, and everyone gradually became more and more unfamiliar with him from the joy of his return, until they found the secret of their father, the emergence of the mysterious girl, and the chance encounter with the poet, with a sudden "eclipse Festival" breaking all plans.

There are two roads in the woods. You can only take one of them, and wonder about the other for the rest of your life. Longwu is a temple of no more than 20 monks. When 17-year-old Jime became a junior monk there, he had no idea whether it's better to renounce or to join the secular world. The temple quietly sits in the depths of a mountain.This year, with only 11 monks left, there are not enough junior monks to officially receive the precepts during summer recluse. The temple seniors decide to have three young monks to do this. Jime is fully aware what this means to him. He patiently waits for an answer to dawn on him. On a dark night, Jime takes out the long roll of sutra that he reads every day, and cleans it carefully by a lamp. This summer, someone has come to the crossroad of life. Of the two roads out there, he can only choose one.

The film records the emotions and destinies of seven single women. Whether at a loss, confused, waiting in hope, disappointed, helpless, compromised, independent or defiant, they are closely bound up to this agitated and chaotic era. Through their different experiences they tell us about the failed marriages of middle-aged women, about life being single, and about a group of men who have not yet showed up but who appear vivid from a female perspective.

‘Body’ is an object we are all familiar with. For British sculptor Anthony Gormley, it is a medium for expressing thoughts about space, while for young female artist Wang Ying, it is a potential vehicle for expressing emotions. This documentary uses a split-screen method to create a three-dimensional space like a "body". It not only explores the artistic concept and development of Wang Ying, a female artist born in the 1990s who studied in the UK but also completed it on this basis. The documentary creator (me) thinks about her and her body, from'meeting','seeing' to'existence'

The film records a long journey by Guo Kuan and his friends, as well as a post-cycling biography. The changes in Dali after one year, and the hurried passing by around. These subtly melt into life, and then there is this instinct documentary that needs to be expressed.

In the Chinese New Year of 2017, Solar and I went together to visit David Zhang who was practicing kung fu on Wudang Mountain. As the three of us interacted, we observed and looked after each other. We also filmed each other to document and reconstruct this experience of listening to each other and growing up.

I came to the "90 km-long traffic jam, road transport of coal (news)," the Shenmu and Fugu, Coal makes this town less than one million people among the Chinese economy in the forefront. And arrived here three days later, Pass me a tramp pointing to the front for me, "in front of you can find a dream." I gave up being shocked shoot spectacular traffic jam events. I start shooting those who rub shoulders with Seoul before, Children, adolescents, youth, middle-aged, elderly. We talked about the harsh reality of the real Titanic, We are also talking about the illusory ideals, My ideal also quietly began to grow from here.

The old man who has no dreams, forgets the dream of the dream, said that the dream of being educated, the child who is chasing dreams in the streets, can we really have a dream? In front of the new crisis that has aroused the new crown virus, I came to Yunnan with a camera, I hope I can reactivate my movie and a few musician friends who have already realized it is facing new challenges. In Kunming City, a child of a roadside stall, every day, like a beast is usually playing in the road of the car, only six years old, he has not started to go to school, and his parents did not take care of him. . And when they said their dreams, the dream of teaching with strong people, and it is incorporated with this. The dream of spiritual medicine may not exist at all, but it is really a tragedy, and the tragedy is staged daily.

As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named after its soft and delicate quality as well as white and jade-like color. It is the best of handmade papers and needs to go through several complicated and elaborate processes. In a small village deep in the Wuyi Mountains, Xikeng, there were once more than five hundred paper mills, but now only one remains, still struggling to survive. The film crew focused their camera on the paper maker Hu Lanshan's family, quietly recording the process of making Yukou paper, the joys and sorrows of the paper maker’s family, and the changes of the whole era...

"After Jiang Ge's murder, Liu Xin and her family's approach and attitude are the only reason that triggered this lawsuit; I just use the law to legally defend my rights and interests, not to talk about being more serious. But no matter how much legal responsibility Liu Xin should bear, I never wanted anyone to commit cyber violence against her, such as disinformation and defamation. As early as the beginning of Jiang Ge's murder, someone added a WeChat to scold me: sending Jiang Ge to study in Japan deserved it. I couldn't understand at all. Sending my daughter to study abroad was to let her learn more, so why should even that be attacked after Liu killed her. After that, some people publicly abused Jiang Ge on Weibo, and in the first half of 2017, I went to the local police station to report the case. in December 2017, when the trial of Chen Shifeng was held in Japan, the net storm was the craziest. Numerous netizens could not stand to see it and helped me report it..."

A film that focuses on the drag queen culture that originated in Europe and the United States. Two gay men, mostly in drag, walk around campuses, villages and theaters in Zhuhai, China. Through the collision and communication with tourists, the documentary observes and records the reactions and attitudes of Chinese people towards drag queen culture, and records the feelings of the two participants.

Shenmu County is China's largest coal producing county where serious environmental problems are induced by the over exploitation of the coal resources. However, to pursue economic interest, it continues and even accelerate the predatory exploitation at the expense of the environment Luo Yanrong is a blaster in Shenmu. He and several other workmates share a room where there is neither bathroom nor toilet. The food of the mine’s canteen is pretty bad. He once got injured at work in a blast. In order to support his family and his children’s education, he has been working in the mine for over a decade. Xu, a miner in Yibin City of Si Chuan Province, died in a gas explosion. His family are immersed in deep grief

Drawing on the threads of Virtual Currency and Digital Junk, Very, Very, Tremendously seeks to discuss how the acts of production and consumption from the virtual world interact systematically with reality, whilst also mirrors how the ‘two realities’ coexist in geopolitical conflict.

People in my hometown call those who are shy and untalkative "touxiuzi". Within this courtyard, the touxiuzi gene is embodied in the members of three generations. As a touxiuzi in our family, I try to uncover and open up the real heart beating under our touxiuzi exterior, yet in the end I only open up myself. The touxiuzi in the family continue to circle in the air above the village and grow in the village's soil.

On the thirteenth of the first month of each year, Xiafang Village, Anle Township, even in the cold and rain, the Seven Saints Peregrine Falcons, who are shirtless, are powerful and mighty. During the 2008 Spring Festival, Uncle Ghost's desire to record terroir images was irresistibly teased.

The film summarizes the work of Hélio da Silva, commercial manager who, of his own volition, in 2003, began planting trees on the banks of the Tiquatira River, in the east of São Paulo, and ended up creating the city’s first linear park, today with 33,421 trees, reason for the short title.

By filming Song Wei himself and witnesses over 16 years, this film aims to restore the life experience of Song, a pioneer in Chinese contemporary art collection and funding.

A man back to his hometown,and felt familiar with someplace he used to stay.

Sunshine is a 20 year old young woman who served a sentence for drug abuse. Having found to be pregnant on her first day in prison, where the child was born, Sunshine was left with a new reason to live. Although in the past the relationship with her family was not the best, during the time in prison her relatives made sure they would write every day, and visited without fail. On the day of her release, she was carrying over 500 letters and a chance to turn a new page in her life.

This experimental short, shot in a number of public spaces across China, explores the ways individual self-expression may in fact become codified in collective forms—or, if you like, how collective performance extends into the age of the supposed individual.

Between April and June 2003, the brutal SARS epidemic had a deep impact on Chinese people's lives, especially in Beijing. Flocks of migrant labourers who had come to the capital to find work started straggling back to their hometown in the countryside to escape the illness. I spent a day in the crowd packed into Beijing West railway station, trying to capture an event that made many feel emotional disquiet, while forcing them to meditate on their life and situation. Because of everyone's panic, many people are eager to leave Beijing to escape the disaster. On May 8th, the author recorded what happened at the Beijing West Railway Station that day, revealing the various mentalities of the Chinese people in front of emergencies.

The very ancient tradition of a storyteller going from one valley to the next spreading news from the outside world is in decline. A couple with great experience with this street art, Gai Ying Mu and her husband Gai Ming He, only perform upon request. Unfortunately, to make a living from this art has become more and more difficult. Now, ten years after first filming, the Director returns to the family when the couple is to give a performance in a neighboring valley. Even if the casting of the little orchestra is bigger - three young apprentices now accompany the duo - the few spectators are much less enthusiastic than before. However, the show goes on and our couple adapts the old stories to current realities. The tradition of ancient storytelling remains alive: ancestral China stands up against the assaults of modernity.

Zhou Zhi, the patriarch of the family, rules strictly following the handed-down 'hereditary tradition': listening to no one. In the face of new economic challenges, he decides and acts totally arbitrarily. Unable to adapt himself to "modern times", not the least because of his stubbornness, he runs into heavy debt putting the family in great financial difficulty. Turning to his daughters and sons-in-law for support, he receives a cold welcome. Around the almost larger-than-life patriarchal figure of Zhou Zhi, this film vividly portrays the difficulties of an ordinary Chinese family, with its members having to change their lifestyle in the face of economic difficulties and a shifting culture.

In China, most of the young people in the countryside moved to the cities for better job opportunities. Only children and old people are left behind. They live around this river and this bridge. This dangerous bridge has not been repaired for 20 years. It seems that all the problems, the persons and the objects in the countryside have been forgotten.

Fiction film about a young migrant worker who struggles to live an honest life in the city.

Sou Sai Tong, a form 2 student in Macao, lives in Zhuhai. He is a cross-boundary pupil commuting daily between two cities. This film mainly records Sou’s life and habits, exploring his studies and growing process at school.

Mi, the protagonist of this film still shares memories of her grandmother in different social media platforms, three years after her passing. On the face of death, people have different ways of coping with loss and moving on with their lives.

When my parents decided to take both my grandmothers under our roof, life remained stable, despite the fact that one of them was plagued by mental illness. As time went by, however, the problems slowly started to emerge.

Although the Family is society’s smallest unit, home education may influence the development of the city in a subtle and gradual manner. What kind of belief a man raised from a grassroots family will pass to the next generation?

The experience and reflections of a red guard. Every time after a political disaster, most people are turned into victims of the disaster. The individual actions of the victims in the disaster are always overlooked. These actions overlooked ran through the entire process of the disaster. The entire process of the disaster turns most people into victims of the disaster. In every political disaster……

An age-old ethnic group is known to the world as “Mosuo” inhabits the region around Lugu Lake, which borders Sichuan and Yunnan. While they called themselves “Na” since ancient times. Our documentary team went deep into the Mosuo settlements such as Lugu Lake in Yunnan, Yongning, and Muli in Sichuan, and the camera focused on the ordinary Mosuo people.

An ordinary old herdsman living in the pastoral area in tibet who became a vegetarian in his twenties. He never got married,while he used to live with his brother who died later. He usually treats domestic animals like life's best friends. Many people even think that reincarnation into his house to be a yak is the result of a good deed in his life.

Soil-Flowers is a portrait film of a woman getting ready to go on a trip to China to take care of her elderly mother. She lives alone in a house in Toulouse (France) filled with tones of objects and belongings after her partner passed away. Even though the filmmaker stays behind the camera he is also an actor and spectator inside his own films. By following the woman who goes back and forth between China and France, he starts questioning about his own living coditions.

It's never an easy work of making money. Some people in China devote themselves into their career in the US company AMWAY due to its rosy prospect. What they do is organizing meetings, seeking for new partners, selling products. They find it extremly exciting and inspiring. Mr Wang chose to enter in this game. He enjoyed it in spite of he never gaining from it. While his senior partner, Mr Li,was alway unstable. He confused with his future, but couldn't make a final decision of giving up. 'modus vivendi' is about people struggling, slightly, for a better life. Nobody benefited from the project, but it made things seem to be different.

The graffiti of a cat is seen everywhere in the small town in Tamsui. The artist is a middle-aged man always dressed in volunteer firefighter uniform. Driving a van, he delivers gas cylinders to the residents while maintaining the vivid colours in the graffiti.

A rural eye doctor helps underserved villagers in China regain their sight and their lives.

The documentary is set in the backgroud that the government replaced rural primary schools with town schools. It tells a story about the teacher Wu Zhisi and four students in Luming Primary School of Luming Village, Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province and recorded the choice made by teachers and students in this background. This work shows the disappearing process of a rural elementary school hidden in the mountains and the passive choices of this five families influenced by this event.

Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.

Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, illegally busking in China's big cities, trying to evade the authorities. Which he does, for a while...

"Idol" is China's first independent music series documentary, produced and produced by Beijing Maichao Film. The "Idol" documentary focuses on Chinese independent music practitioners, presenting their relationship with the world and telling how they use independent attitudes to prove that music is still alive. The plot revolves around the popularization of individual types, the restoration of objective records and the story emotions. Through "Idol", more people know and understand Chinese independent music and independent music circles, making "Chinese independent musicians" no longer just thin. The literal meaning of the word, let more people see the life and stories behind the "Chinese independent musicians" works. The documentary will be available for exclusive broadcast on the Youku Documentary Channel on January 10, 2019.

Guo Zequan went on a journey into the southern part of China.