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The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. This film documents the extinction of species currently happening around the world. But it also highlights hopeful initiatives as committed men and women on every continent fight to save endangered species and work towards improving biodiversity.

On February 20, 2022, the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

The Opening Ceremony of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, held in Beijing, China at 4 March 2022.

Last year, my mother used her mobile phone to read the news every day to earn gold coins. The gold coins earned at the end of the day could be withdrawn for a few cents. She started to get pain in her wrists from using her cell phone too much. I made a deal with her, asking her to shoot videos for me, and I would give her 1 yuan for each video. Starting from June 30, she would send me videos every week. Until today, she has sent 165 videos, and The materials I shot were edited together to form a book from two places... About the Author Dai Xu, male, born in 1995, is from Yunnan. Graduated from Hebei University, worked in documentary media and short video companies, and now is a bookstore clerk. In 2021, I will film my own life with my mother. The new film "A Book from Two Places" comes from the material shot by myself and my mother.

The No. 6 People’s hospital is one of the largest hospital in Shanghai. Through a range of crossed stories, of weakened lives, this is a portrait of China today that stands out.

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989 she started to film the leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests who escaped to political exile following the June 4 massacre. Though Choy never finished that project, she now travels with the old footage to Taiwan, Maryland, and Paris in order to share it with the dissidents who have never been able to return home.

A documentary on the making of China's war epic "The Battle at Lake Changjin".

In 2064, the human body no longer has secrets. The world record for the men’s 100-meter dash set by Jamaican athlete Powell more than fifty years ago remains unbroken. Twenty-three-year-old athlete Mara is preparing for the next Olympics until a gunshot shatters the highway order like a curse.

A journey over the seasons to discover the impassive and mysterious giant panda, in the heart of its natural environment. This series, filmed over 4 years, invites us to share the daily life of two panda families, from birth to adulthood. Up close, the black and white ursid is revealed as never before, in its most complete intimacy.

My Father's Journey explores how an individual of 82 years of age built his own spiritual castle to protect himself and his precious culture against constant political upheavals and the assimilation of the dominant Chinese modern culture.

In hopes of putting an end to the 70-year war that still does not have the peace treaty, a group of internationally renowned women peacemakers come together to plan a march to cross the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from North to South Korea. Veteran documentarian, Deann Borshay Liem, tells an exquisitely touching and crucial story that advocates for peace.

When the pandemic broke out, the filmmaker began to document the outside world from her window. A public space, Blue House, was finally realised but made empty for an indefinite time.

Documentary commissioned by the Communist Party of China which argues that Nikita Khrushchev "lit the fire of nihilism" by criticizing predecessor Joseph Stalin in his 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences' speech, weakening the image of cohesive socialism in the U.S.S.R.

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.

Aspiring Chinese athletes and their international coaches arrive in the island of Hainan. Together, they attempt to become the country’s first Olympic surfers. Surf Nation follows this team and two of China’s top surfers, Alex and Lolo, as they train, compete and discover what they want their lives to be.

A documentary chronicle that follows a number of denizens of the underground as they drift around individually and collectively, looking for (and speculating upon) a new cultural ‘scene’. The post-punk music they love proclaims slogans of resistance and revolution, but what we see is the groping for a sustainable lifestyle familiar from much youth culture worldwide. That lifestyle, in this case, involves queer sexual identity, drugs, ephemeral relationships, patched-together fashions, weighty discussions of art and theory, the tasting of foods, and copious amounts of alcohol

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.

A love story engulfed by the turmoil of Hong Kong, 2019. A city at war with itself. social and political conflicts insinuate themselves into every citizen’s life. families fragment, loyalties are questioned and long-cherished relationships succumb to the slow-motion disintegration of a once iconic city – tearing itself apart.

A short documentary about one of the cheapest cities in northern China--Hegang. A report about a flat for only 50,000 RMB (US $7,800) got a sensational impact on Chinese social media. So we went to Hegang and talked to the young people who moved there from big cities. Are they "losers" who failed in big cities? Or does Hegang give them a different picture of life? Check this out.

Through an intimate journey involving the filmmaker and her aunt, we see what remains and what is transformed with the passing of time.

Chinese photographer Weicheng Hua meets the vagabond Zhighuo Sun in 2015 at an amusement park just outside Chongqing. Hua’s first film is an affectionate portrait of the drug-using, possibly psychotic, sensitive and always cheerful Sun, who moves through the amusement park like a kind of shaman, holding forth about mystical concepts such as “the principle of zero” and “understanding the self.” The central figure seems to fit perfectly into this odd environment.

"Earth Summit Mission" is the first 4K documentary recording a scientific expedition. The 60-minute Earth Summit Mission documentary is a record of the second Chinese scientific expedition to Mount Qomolangma which took place in the summer of 2022. It involved around 200 scientists, led by Yao Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the course of the expedition, the scientists set a number of records, from collecting ice and snow samples from the highest point on Earth and setting up the world’s highest weather station, to sending up an observation aerostat to an altitude of over 9,000 meters.

An idealistic, young journalist in Beijing profiles China's biggest real estate speculator. Their divergent life experiences and clashing values challenge the journalist’s worldview, revealing deep generational and societal changes happening in the country.

The first documentary of the "Chinese Architectural Heritage Trilogy" directed by Ju Anqi. It focuses on the conservation and revitalization of architectural heritage in Chinese metropolitan cities. Over the past two years, Ju Anqi has interviewed more than 80 internationally acclaimed architects, experts, scholars, and practitioners with successful experience in architectural revitalization. He filmed the current protection and revitalization of old Chinese buildings with an artistic style. With 300,000 words of interviews and 3000 hours of footage, Building is by far the largest visual record on the issue of architectural heritage conservation during the rapid urbanization in China.

Tang’s son was stolen when the child was three. Twelve years later, the Chinese police found him but that joy was dampened by a new reality.

Five Chinese workers recount their dreams. Their nocturnal suffering reflects their difficult and precarious professional experiences. ZHAO Xu builds a deft and disturbing mise en abyme that conveys a surreal sensation, comparable to that caused by a science-fiction film, overtaken by reality.

Following the mother of martyrs Pro-Ukraine, Qingwen who missed her lost son Guo Zhenggao and accuse the brutal of the war that takes up so many life.

Yang Yi and Brother Qi are like birds of feathers, both of them stepped into the society at around 16 or 17, they led the followers, collected the debt, solved problems, fought, thrived, it was in the 90s of last century. Now, they are in their middle age. Every time in reminisce, they would sigh how things have changed.

A daughter accompanied her mother to visit her old friends on an island in South China. Subtle emotions that had been long hidden gradually emerged during the trip. As she uncovered them, the daughter chose to record them on her phone.

Technology and spirituality are parallel forces in an abandoned and possibly haunted Chinese amusement park taken over by outsider artists. An enigmatic work of a great, dark beauty.

The movie tells the story of Zhang Guo-Zhong, who since 2010 has measured the world with his feet, backpacked all over Southeast Asia, driven into Europe four times, held a variety of cultural activities along the way, and extended the tentacles of China's cultural exchanges with foreign countries to the streets and lanes along the way, which has led to the enactment of a monumental legend!

Jade, a Korean-born art student, writes in her diary about encountering anti-Asian racism, sexism, and homophobia in France. Her disillusionment with France, her rage at racists, and the lack of understanding from others all prompted her to reconcile with reality through art.

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.

After the COVID-19 time, the weather gradually turned cool and the octogenarian couple led a quiet life. The couple realized that there were only three people left in their generation after stumbling upon a photo. So they decided to visit their relative who lived in another city.

A study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. Revealing the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and using them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.

On September 30, 2021, musician Yiran Zhao died of illness, ending his legendary life. He lived passionately, loved deeply, and brought a lot of music and joy to friends and his fans. In his later years, Zhao was tormented by illness, living in isolation and rarely seeing friends. "Farewell to 1988" records his life in rural Beijing suburbs from 2017 to 2020. audiences can get a glimpse of Mr. Zhao under the stage, his illness, his persistence and rejection, his thoughts and regrets.

A herd of elephants, leaving their homeland, journey over 1700 km across Yunnan. Humans guide them, reflecting on protecting wildlife habitats. The elephants build trust as they seek food, water and shelter during their epic journey.

As a videographer of the villagers, I felt that this year's epidemic could be recorded, so I held the camera at the village's epidemic prevention duty post and spent it with the villagers.

An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of China in the 1930s, a young traveler's visions of the melancholic landscapes of his homeland, the narratives of movements in early Chinese silent films. Through these fragments of travelogues, the film explores the nature of consciousness in motion and what it means to use archives, images, and cinema as documentations as well as vehicles for travel.

What are we doing after the war？

In this talk, Li Hongqi reviewed his transition from fine art to cinema, and his aesthetic and philosophical exploration from his early 'So Much Rice' to recent 'The The'. Dir. Li Hongqi also shared his strong anxiety of his existence(born with melancholia), his thought on cinema art (actually, I don't think there's any movie worth making), his epistemology, his religious view, his consideration on contemporary cinema, and what he learned about living in seclusion.

This film cross-cut the "Odessa Steps" chapter from the famous war movie "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and the actual footage of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in 2022. It uses a 21st-century "Montage d'Attraction" to explore The circle of history, the contradictions of civilization, and the crisis of life.

Since the 1990s, women from Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia have been introduced or lured into mainland China, often becoming tools for childbirth. The film’s protagonist, Larry, was born in northern Myanmar. As a child, she broke her leg while collecting firewood in the mountains. Due to a lack of funds for treatment, she was left with a disability. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she followed her aunt to northern China and married a man much older than herself. They lived together for over a decade and had two children. During this period, Larry left home, married a young man, and had a daughter. In the sweltering summer, Larry returned to her hometown in northern Myanmar.

Over hundred years of development, the Chinese film industry has been through a lot. Lisa Lu, a nearly hundred-year-old Chinese American actress, stands for a book of Chinese film history herself. In the film, Lisa Lu talks about her life, career, and her on-going process of dream pursuing inside the movie world. During this journey, she’ll also bring out a couple more memorable Chinese filmmakers. Including one of the first Asian actress who has her own “star” on the Hollywood Boulevard, Anna May Wong; Minwei Li, who made a huge contribution to China by documenting the warfare, Chusheng Cai, one of the founders of Chinese feature film, and the world-famous martial artist, Bruce Lee.

Back in her family home, Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A Long Journey Home tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational and temporal journey that stirs up emotions while challenging contemporary China’s “making a family” from the inside. This is a brilliant quest for emancipation seeking a place among one’s own people.

A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she has thought as much about death as about living well. As the hospital has been her playground, the daughter is familiar with the scene of death, but the thought of losing her mother scares her.

Self-described “traitor to my male gender,” Da Xi Ge has known herself for some 55 years, but has never possessed the vocabulary to adequately express this knowledge. This documentary short, overlaid with a kaleidoscope of symbols of traditional femininity, follows the day-to-day life of a scavenger, as she prepares for her dream of sitting for a wedding portrait.