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Ye Yun (or Da San) is the third son in his family, born in 1970 in Zhaowu Dameng in Inner Mongolia, where he works for a local copper company. For the last 10 years of his life, he feels little has changed. However, he has always had an idea: to go to Tibet and see Mount Everest. Those around him have often discouraged the idea because of the region's harsh environment. Yet, Da San is determined to do something different life in his ordinary life. He determines to satisfy his wish, so he persuaded his friends to embark on a roadtrip to Tibet.

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

The Three Gorges Dam continues to cast a long shadow on Chinese society, Politics and environment. This documentary studies the project's final completion in 2012. Some of the prominent figures past and present - Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemi, are taken to task for rushing the project. The result is long-term ecological destruction, widespread elimination of local economies and forced relocation. Director WANG Li-bo lends his voice to the wave of criticisms of one of China’s most controversial projects.

The father and son are drivers of a scenic route in Chongqing Nanshan One Tree. Old Zhao has been busy helping his son find a "good partner", and the monotonous driving life has made the young and energetic Xiao Zhao very restless and in various situations. Under a peaceful life, Xiao Zhao had been reluctant to forgive his father because of the accident that led to the death of his mother because of the alcohol abuse of old Zhao. Finally, whether the relationship between the two can find a new balance.

In addition to deconstructing the development of Next Media in Taiwan, The Taste of Apple reflects the abnormal development of Taiwanese media and the casual adoption of self-censorship in the face of China and self-interests. When Taiwan's freedom of the press must rely on a Hong Kong-based media group criticised as "sensationalist" for its defence, we are truly witnessing the greatest ironies.

An experimental biography of Chung-I, one half of a once-conjoined twin whose separation surgery at age 3 was broadcast live on Taiwanese television. Forty years later, artist Hsu Che-yu produces a digital scan and ceramic cast of the man's body in a playfully analytical take on doubling and copies.

Wei and Xie live together after the graduation. Wei’s temper is getting worse and Xie is constantly changing her jobs. The camera sits at the corner and records everyday life of eating, sleeping, having sex, quarreling, daydreaming…

Some occurrences themselves are forgotten and being got rid of any copyrights. What’s more these occurrences were created and shared by people in a certain place. Although these occurrences are worthless, they are still meaningful for reservation. When the places that something occurred have changed gradually, will occurrences themselves die out soon? As an individual, I may record something.

网瘾战争 is an anti-censorship machinima advocacy production on behalf of the mainland Chinese World of Warcraft community, aesthetically notable for being made entirely in in-universe style. A protest against internet censorship in China, it was first uploaded by video creator nicknamed "Sexy Corn" onto Tudou.com, within days of its release it was banned from a few PRC video sites such as Youku.com, but has since struck a chord with the wider public beyond the gaming community, eventually becoming more popular on-line than Avatar. The 64-minute video expresses the frustrations of mainland Chinese WoW players being restricted to mainland servers and presents their grievances and normal feelings to the real world, inasmuch they are often marginalized as being Internet addicts dwelling inside virtual worlds. While the video was considered to be bold and rebellious by the Chinese government, it won the Best Video award in the 2010 Tudou Video Film awards. [from wikipedia]

Ju and I have resided for nearly a whole year in the area of South Stone, of which appeared to be a distant village completely abandoned by the city, yet maintaining its very own independent system of living. Our perceptive consciousnesses were re-ignited (by the situation of South Stone area), Our activities here made hap-pening of improvised scripts, of images, and of body exercises, on the new time path, we are to be the man who plants scenarios.

Sugan Yibu lost his father when he was young. He nearly died elsewhere while working outside. His mother, who lost her husband, and he stuck together and helped each other in difficulties in his home town. There are many volunteers come to the village, teach on their own in recent years. Sugan Yibu is pleased to see the children in village take due education. He also has class occasionally in the school. The village electrified in 2012. With TV. Sugan Yibu who looks forward to the outside world, has a new way to knows more about outside world. He watched NEWS everyday through TV. He gets plenty of praise for the policy and strategy. The more he knows about the law, the more he feels disgusted to the local government. The life of Sugan Yibu, substitute teachers public teachers in school. Because of the different perception, they all have different views towards different problems.

Ever since the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, Jon has been grappling with the loss of his wife. One night, a man appears at his doorstep, is he real or is he fantasy?

A villager stumbles across an alien's corpse. Convinced it is somehow related to his missing son, the villager doggedly guards his mysterious new find.

Newly arrived in New York City's Chinatown, a young singer’s vision of opportunity collides with a brutal world.

Home to a fifth of the world's population, the newly-minted superpower will soon be the largest economy on earth. Yet it remains little understood in the West. This three-part documentary offers a bold step towards overturning that ignorance. With the most sumptuous production values possible, it skilfully glides from historical enquiry to current analysis in a deep yet accessible tour de force. Timely, comprehensive, and magisterial.

Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.

During the process of re-reading all the diaries of the author's childhood, a long forgotten silhouette suddenly emerges out of an old memory. The artist returns to the scene of the memory to search for evidence of her existence. The entire film is rendered by computer software and is filmed in one shot from beginning to end, like a roamer roams about through a dream, where dreamland and one’s memories interweave in fabrication and deviation. This film is an overture from the project Corner of the Park, continuing the work which was done years ago. The project sets out to form a complex labyrinth-style network of narratives regarding memory.

A student found out he can travel back in time in order to save himself from his latest cheating failure.

This is a documentary about the armed violence in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Traces are spread out from the only left 「Cultural Revolution Graveyard」 in Chongqing, through looking for the kinsfolk of the victims and the survivors participated in the fights, ask them to recount their experience and the scene of the armed violence of the Cultural Revolution, recollect the impact of the bygones to their life in the course of their growth, listen to their opinions and reflects to the historical disaster.

May 12th, 2008, 8-magnitude Wenchuan massive earthquake happened in Sichuan province. In Bailu town, the Shangshu Seminary, built by French Catholic missionaries 100 years before, collapsed in the earthquake. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage planed to rebuild the Shangshu Seminary. During rebuilding, Tang Min, a Catholic parishioner of three generations in Bailu town, conflicted with his neighbor Jiang's family because of some interests, his wife and daughter were brutally killed by Jiang's family. Tang Min's faith also collapsed. Six years later, the reconstruction of the collapsed Seminary was completed, Tang Min also remarried and had a three-year-old daughter, life in Bailu town seemed to be returning to the calm it had been before the collapse.

This documentary follows Huang Yuechuang, a 77 year-old cormorant fisherman who is the last of his generation to carry on the traditional type of fishing in rural China. Yuechuang has recently become a well known personality online since a photo of him won a Sony Award in 2012 and he is determined to show the world why it is important to keep his family tradition alive.

Liu Renwang, a villager in Yaoyang Village, Zhongyang County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, was wrongly sentenced to prison for being shot dead with the former deputy director of the village village committee.

Two families' oral history of the Cultural Revolution and their current life.