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A filmmaker embeds himself with an anti-smuggling task force but is eventually compelled to examine himself instead.

“To see a girl I fell in love with at the first sight, I imitated my idol Herzog to start a journey on foot.”

Wenfang came from the Chinese countryside to Beijing to be an actress – but as for many migrants that came to the city, she now lives in a 4 square meters room located two floors underground, waiting for her dream to come true.

TianAnMen sqaure documentary. About the Chinese goverment actions taken against its protestors in 1976.

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.

Wastewater from factories pollutes irrigation networks and contaminates rice fields. The compromised water supplies taints the soil in which rice is grown with dangerous levels of cadmium, chromium and toxic chemicals that then enter the national diet. But it’s more that a problem for Taiwan’s farmers. Can the public rely on our island’s food, water and environment, or ever feel truly safe?

After the death of her gentle grandfather—the only protective figure—the filmmaker's mother’s mental state began to unravel. In an attempt to find spiritual grounding and emotional clarity, mother and daughter travel together to Tibet, seeking distance and faith as a way to make sense of their fractured past.

Documentary on "people's teachers", teachers employed by the local people rather than the state, about their lives and difficulties.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

This documentary anthropologically records an 80-year-old Horqin shaman's final 3-day initiation ritual, showcasing traditional ceremonies and spiritual trances, with the passing of sacred instruments symbolizing cultural continuity.

The earlist Chinese film with confirmed written record, a short film made by the government army, documenting the autumn army manoeuvres in October 1905.

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.

Documentary on the two generations of the boatmen.

Second part of the Mare Senki (Malaya War Record) series produced by Nihon Eigasha in 1942. While the first installment documented the Japanese advance through Malaya, Birth of Syonan-to portrays Singapore under occupation after its fall in February 1942. The film shows the renaming of the city to Shōnan-tō (“Light of the South”), Japanese victory celebrations, military parades, and efforts to depict the transformation of the colony under Japanese rule. Designed as a propaganda feature, it aimed to legitimize occupation and emphasize Japan’s leadership in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

In a Yunnan border village, soldiers, police, villagers, and volunteer teachers live parallel lives around a school—until the pandemic intertwines their emotions and routines, creating fleeting, mysterious connections.

The Last Mongolian Horseman follows the life of a nomadic shepherd family across four seasons in the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Through quiet observation and poetic imagery, the film captures the rhythms of traditional Mongolian life amidst growing pressures from industrialization and cultural displacement. As the family tends to their animals and sustains their ancestral way of life, the documentary reveals the ecological and spiritual fragility of a vanishing culture. This intimate portrait becomes a powerful meditation on identity, survival, and the unyielding connection between people and their land.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

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.

Aired as part of People’s Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television. Chang Lixin encountered an abandoned child when she was only 24. This is the documentary on how she raised this child and other abandoned children just like her own daughter.

Aired as part of People's Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television, about one little shop owned by an elderly couple.

The film chronicles Angel's over-a-year journey striving in Shanghai from another city, during which she navigates three romantic relationships.

Documentary on a family of Nu ethnic group.

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 Endless Road

The film conveys the theme of love through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemma, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.

Gunmaker-BaoQiang, a Chinese rock singer, whose musician friend committed suicide a year ago. Since then, he throws his whole being into touring, howling for freedom in an authoritarian state which was rife with Communist ideology—all walks of life are under surveillance by the government. How does an idealist longing for a better country?

Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary Chinese youth. Including: love, career, family and so on. How to balance skateboarding with life choices. Both Fat tiger and Morgan are trying to come up with their own answers.

The Soviet Union, as the world’s first socialist country, was at one time glorious. The great Lenin led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its people to create this powerful country. The working class became the masters of the country. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union as a whole developed significantly and prospered. However, since the death of Stalin in 1953, a political thought trend has spread inside and outside of the Soviet Union to attack the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its leaders, and completely repudiate the history of the Soviet Union. This trend is historical nihilism. It continuously uses lies to slander and discredit party leaders, destroying the beliefs of the people. In the end, even the leaders of the Soviet Union became pro-American elements and the main culprits responsible for splitting apart their own country.

«Why do they stay? » The boss here is crazy. A group of people who have been living here for a long time have no jobs and spend all day teasing female guests... They dislike each other but rely on each other. I'm thirty years old, and I encountered a relationship crisis in my thirties. He wanted to buy an off-road vehicle to start a tourism business in Tibet, but he was very poor and a face-saving person. Raising money to buy a car has become difficult. Finally borrowed money to buy the car. Unable to bear the financial pressure, Bingbing hoped that the hotel could make changes, but a conflict arose.

Chen Xiaomei is an ordinary peasant girl, 17 years old, from Jiale Township, Jiangjin, Chongqing. Unlike other peasant girls, she was abandoned by her mother right after she was born. Xiaomei's adoptive parents are authentic farmers, picked up Xiaomei, they are old, the child died at an early age. According to their words pick up Chen Xiaomei is in order to "old after the tea water have someone ......". Xiao Mei's foster parents did not study, the family lack of labor, the economy has been very difficult. When Xiao Mei was in the third grade of elementary school, her adoptive father became seriously ill, and the family's economy became even more problematic, with no money to pay tuition, Xiao Mei became an out-of-school child. The year was 1994.

The film documents a group of underground conceptual artists and performance artists active in the folk art scene of Chengdu, China. It captures their process of engaging in underground art creation and organizing underground art exhibitions during the summer of 1999, the final summer of the 20th century. The summer of 1999 was a tumultuous period in Chinese politics. It marked the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the outbreak of the "Falun Gong incident," and the moment when Taiwan's leader, Lee Teng-hui, made the "two-state theory" declaration, almost leading to a war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. These underground artists used their creations to reflect their understanding and perspectives on Chinese history and contemporary society. However, their actions were constantly under official surveillance.

A group of young boys are going on a pilgrimage. Their journey gradually turns into a mosaic of spiritual pursuit, as well as jokes, games, laugh and moments of daydreaming…

Documentary on asbestos mine workers

Beixnuengx means compatriot in the Zhuang language. I was born and raised in the city. Although I am Zhuang (China’s ethnic group), am I Beixnuengx? I want to find my identity. So I started with Zhuang folk songs. I set off from Nanning to Wuming, Baise, and then to Mashan, my hometown that I have never been to. I met people singing songs in WeChat groups; I joined the Zhuang song festival at the entrance of the village, I visited 100-year-olds who still make Zhuang brocade... What are the stories of those singing folk songs? What Beixnuengx culture is revealed in folk songs? Along the way, I slowly uncovered the much advertised Zhuang culture and saw her in the most original form. In the end, how did I answer my initial question?

Geomancy is to say hinding winds to gain water. The earth is mother , burial brings peace to the deceased, symbolizing reincarnation. So the name of this story in English is “Revive”, which means getting into the cycle of reincarnation. The documentary is going to tell a story contains several elements such as Geomancy of compass, Hakka funeral and interment culture, General om teach, Seance. Moreover, it also porse deeply on the floating life with fleeting time- the sanguine life of a wise man in countryside. This is an old man whose life is full of hardships, he possesses real learning and stories, owns peace after overcoming severe difficulties, and has the special graciousness as being in such an age…

As a popular winter-sport, Ice hockey has been professionalized gradually in China since Beijing had successfully bid for the Olympic Winter Games. Qu ruichen (richard), qu lifan (steven), and zhai zinan (jason) are three nine-year-old strikers for a beijing junior ice hockey team. all of them have the dream of becoming a professional. while the three strikers are giving their best on the court, their parents stand at a crossroads: should they support their children to become professional athletes or to force them to forget their dreams?

The rich visual range and fascinating soundtrack of "Faith" invite viewers to travel through the spiritual world of southern Siberia, where shamanism, Orthodoxy and Buddhism coexist side by side, and local residents try to harmoniously coexist with beautiful, but merciless nature.

Xiayao Village, Youyu County, Shanxi ProvinceThe 7-year-old and big-footed Bai Nu and Liu Buhan, both of whom died because of their loved ones, were brought together with their three children more than 40 years ago. (Bai Danu 2 Men 1 Women) (Liu Buhan 3 (Daughter) Nowadays, the children have become grandparents, and most of them are not next to Bai Bainu and Liu Buhan. The children of both sides have differences over the old age of raising the two elderly people ... so despite the two They are all in their eighties, and still need to get up and return to the field to farm in the morning and night, and the old lady Bai is more because of her little feet, she has to stagger in the wind and rain, kneeling in the fields ... A foot-binding old lady faces the camera and talks to her little feet ...

Bai Sanming, a Chinese farmer, plays Mao Zedong for a living. This strange and absurd phenomenon has formed a unique and complete industrial chain in China. This documentary depicts this absurd and realistic behavior. At the same time, the documentary also brings out the special ideological trend that has existed since the last century, based on the crazy personality cult of Mao Zedong.

For years, urban people have seen the mountain country as a pure wonderland. When they get bored with the city, they visit the mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the ethnic minorities there. The director and cameraman go to the mountains with the typical expectations of urban people — that the local ethnic minority people are supposed to prepare meals for them, and that local labor should be cheap. Behind “Foggy Valley” lie the stories of Chinese country villages which are undergoing transformation.

A story of a female director who spends a hallucinatory night in quarantine in a hotel. She recalled her former lover and creative partner Liling, out of nowhere. And then, she was surprised to find That Liling is in front in her, they poured out their hearts and past experiences, once the story came into their view. The next morning, the hotel reception calls her……

This film records the production process of a book about the Covid-19 Pandemic in Macao, written by Choi Sio Man, who has been an active reporter for over a decade.

Part 2 of Return Home documentary trilogy.