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“My 17 Gay Friends” is an experimental romantic comedy that explores the interconnected web of relationships in Beijing’s gay community that surrounds an unseen narrator. It also pokes fun at stereotypes and labels that often cut across the LGBT community such as femininity and masculinity in the gay community and how it affects our perceptions of gay people and categorizes people into distinct groups. This Chinese rom-com seeks to portray an optimistic, light-hearted side of gay life in urban modern cities in order to show that homosexuality need not always be associated with depression, suicide, and a life of tragedy.

A documentary that explores identities, human nature, and happiness. While the larger society tends to define a person’s life with wealth, property, stability and sex, protagonists of the film choose to abandon them all and reconsider their identities and lives. The film follows two Brits as their lives push for mainstream society to rethink the relationships between wealth, family, stability, sex, gender, and happiness.

In two intertwining narratives, a migrant worker alternates between different realities. In the first, depicted through a rapid montage of black-and-white photographs, he explores a film prop warehouse, reciting and rehearsing old tales and traditional texts. The second, shown in languid colour footage, reveals the same worker’s daily routines, his return to his hometown, and a deadly act of revenge.

Wenwen (Yang Yuhan), a girl who had been buried for 3 days in the earthquake, was rescued. After being rescued, she has always believed that her father is still traveling in the heart of the earth. She travels to the heart of the earth wherever broad beans can be painted.

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In Hainan, there is a Guanyin Temple. The Guanyin in the temple decided to make a movie based on her personal experience. Two friends and I planned to make a documentary Guanyin Also Make Movies built from this event. Gradually, the act of us shooting the documentary, starting to echo with the act of Guanyin making the movie. To every single person, the image has its own unique significance. Therefore, we also turned the camera to ourselves, deriving Three Men Who Made a Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made a Movie from Guanyin Also Make Movies.

We see people crawling on the ground like ants in a world of giant steel and cold, a desolate world with no earthly atmosphere.

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Short film by Yang Bo.

The movie "Xiaomei" tells the touching story of the protagonist Niu Xiaomei and the unrelated Guo family in a flashback. The film shows the great love between people with little love story, and presents a vivid, lively, rich and real picture of people in all aspects.

The story of Two Men takes place in a highly theatricalized setting, namely an arched iron cage. Two men fall in love with each other in an all-male world. As their relationship develops, however, it is no longer their own personal matter, but rather a jarring dissonance in this masculine world. The minorities express their needs, but their expression seems so powerless and fragile in comparison with the society at large. Nevertheless, the yearning for ideals in their tender souls never fades.

Set in Taiwan and Hawaiʻi, territories where languages of the Austronesian family are spoken, this documentary focuses on the questions, desires and challenges of young indigenous peoples to learn the languages of their forebears— languages that are endangered or facing extinction.

"XIII" follows an isolated young man named Mark, who believes there is a mystery behind the disappearance of the number '13' on elevators. His only friend, Billy tries to assist him, but finds himself surrounded, with the lonely friend, in bizarre dreams, visions, and memories.

How should poetry live on in our ethnic group under the impact of contemporary culture?

A reel of propaganda film about the Red Army, shot during the Cultural Revolution, faded to red as time went by. Blue paint was smeared on the filmstrip, invaded the original red, and gave birth to this abstract dance of images.

With Chinese society rapidly changing around her, one young mother finds it is not so easy to bring ancient ways into her modern family.

Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real. ——The Story of the Stone

"Happily Ever After" chronicles the emotional, relational, and life changes of four lesbians six years after they entered into contract marriages. The documentary explores how their relationships with their same-sex partners, their "husbands" in these contract marriages, and their own parents have evolved. This film delves into how these women have constructed their own queer families, prompting reflections on mainstream marital values and family dynamics.

Two countries, eight hundred and ninety kilometers apart, with different civilizations, and a troubled girl is looking for her long lost father from Tunisia to China. It's all about a mysterious and splendid dream, a conviction that a girl would give whatever she'd get, and a journey full of charms and suspense.

Rise of a man from the lower castes of society to become a "Big Brother", managing prostitution and gambling businesses.

A chance encounter led a pair of old ex-lovers to unite again under the Five Trees.

In a Chinese prison yard every week, Ding Yu, a beautiful TV journalist sits face to face with a convicted criminal. They discuss his crime, his kids, his hopes, his ambitions. Her camera crew captures it all. But these are no ordinary prisoners, shortly after their interview, they are executed. This is the story of a remarkable woman and her equally remarkable TV series, "Interviews Before Execution".

There's a kind of feeling that I want to express, namely a different kind of love. Normally love stories happen to people of similar ages, or people growing up together. But the kind of love that I want to shoot features an age gap between the lovers. There's not only romantic love, but also family love, and the love between a brother and sister." - Zhao Ye

Huang Da-wang , an extravaganza from Taiwan sound/ performance art scene, is also known as Black Wolf or Yingfan-Psalmanazar. He has developed a distinctive style of improvisation and electronic noise, and has a unique performance - the "Black Wolf Nakashi" show. This film follows him in the city, from sound to body, from bedroom to ruins.

At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxieties surrounding his mother. Set within the world of the post-'90s generation of Chinese youth, BURROW is a dark coming-of-age story about the paralyzing nature of self-doubt about the primal responses we have to our fear of failure.