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Eleven members of a traditional theatre troupe perform daily and live out their lives in a small playhouse in the Sichuan region of China. Their three-hour show combines various forms, from classical Chinese opera to acrobatics, and is adored by the locals. Their star actress Dandan has performed in the troupe with her mother since she was little, sharing a living space with a group of performers who share no absence of fights. Though she worries about her future, she continues to earnestly perform the heroine for her elderly audience.

A heartwarming tale of Lucas, a Singaporean boy who faces up to his fears in the neighbourhood playground, and reunites his neighbour Angie with her lost doll.

I bought a VHS player to watch my parents’ wedding video. My mother came by and chatted with me as I was rewinding the VHS tape.

Remarkable short documentary "My Sister Swallowed the Zoo" layers old family photographs over an international telephone call of increasing intensity. Deftly experimental and wonderfully efficient, Zhang captures the liberation and the torment of being away – from home and from the expectations of daughter- and sisterhood. The work is not afraid to be loud, claiming a speaking and cinematic voice, and calling attention to the visibility of personal histories and anguished transnational futures.

The prince and the Devil seek a doctor for the princess, but end up breaking into an animation studio where characters like them are being forced to act in a thousand-episode series.

Vincent Lan's short film made during FIRST training camp.

A Chinese future commission arrives in Mariannelund in Sweden. They have done their homework: Sweden is ranked 7th, China 112th. It's about happiness. But can happiness really be measured? This film can be viewed both as a contemporary satire and a poetic depiction of a condition common to the new global age, in rural Sweden and the Chinese metropolis alike.

A film between two countries. A film between two realities.

A family went to the old town for a trip, then they lost their way when going home...

Wei and Xie, a couple living together since the graduation of college, had experienced all kinds of everyday problems. Now they have to face the problem of marriage.

Where I Should Go explores one of the most pressing issues in contemporary China, the interaction between the rural and the urban, telling the intertwined stories of two families who move from the countryside to the city in order to try and get a proper education for their children.

Guan Kuanyi is seventy-six years old this year, and is the only surviving shaman of the Elunchun. Every first or fifteenth day, Guankani put tribute on the throne and worshiped the gods in the traditional way. After recovering from an illness, Guan Kuanyi had a mindset and hoped that in his lifetime, he could find a shaman's heir and inherit this ancient religious culture. But the young people no longer believe in the gods, which has become the biggest obstacle for Guan Kanni to find his heir. She focused on her daughter, Daisy, and her son, Rongrong ... Recording Notes November 22, 2007 In the morning, the world has become quiet, silent, simple and pure. I began to enter the state, into the world of shaman.

A veteran, Mr. Long’s life was full of legend. Yet, he lived his life in silence and never told others about his experience in the battlefield. There were many scars on his body and he got three shots only in the Songshan Battle. One of them went through between the bones and the scar had been apparently seen so far.

Min Min keeps her best friend Claire's note from being delivered to a boy they both like and opens the note one night out of jealousy.

Ran Ran is about to leave Beijing. With only ten days left, how will she decide to spend the rest of her time?

It tells the story of looking for true love in an era of luxury

When a coin falls into an ancient city of Langzhong with the sound of the wind organ, it seems to be floating in the air. Everything in the world no longer exists, there is no past and no future. It is like flying in the air.

All About Gay Sex is a documentary about love and sex between men. The production of the film spanned seventeen months, from November 2008 to March 2010. A total of eighteen men were interviewed for the film, sixteen of which are featured in the film. Twelve of them are gay, one is bisexual, and three are transgender people. These men are ordinary and inconspicuous individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from retired workers, barbers, students and merchants to clerks, freelancers, rural accountants, sex workers and high school teachers. The youngest is 20 years old, the oldest 53. They all live in Kunming, Yunnan. Kunming is an inland city in China where the economy is ailing and people adhere to conservative values. The men interviewed exhibit a love and sex life that boasts vitality, diversity, and open-mindedness.

A feature documentary by Oscar nominee Shuibo Wang, on the life and music of a group of rebellious punk rockers in China.

In 2017, four bands from the Chinese mainland toured in Taiwan. It marks a historic moment in the cross-strait subcultural communication. The tour is the biggest underground rock event made by rock bands from the Chinese mainland in Taiwan. With the GT Bitches's tour as the main plot, the film is an interview of 10 punk bands, gig organizers,and music fans from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. What is the punk cultural difference across the strait? The interview in the film might provide a partial answer…

Su has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where his wife and children still live. He isn't exactly welcomed back with open arms.

In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. "The Land of Many Palaces" follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move. The film explores a process that will take shape on an enormous scale across China, since the central government announced plans to relocate 250,000,000 farmers to cities across the nation, over the next 20 years.

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought him a green plant, only existing green in that world. People desire his plant and start to scramble for it.

Yike Su failed in the latest National College Entrance Examination. While his mother tried hard to push him back to school for an extra year, his granduncle moved in since he had nowhere to...

A vampire film by Qin Dao, a piece of work that transcends celluloid, screen, and the social milieu of post-socialist China, while interrogating the nature of cinema.

BBR 1 – No. 1 of Blossom Bud Restrainer is a fictional promo-video for a plant hormone developed by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Landscape Architecture in 2014. Its major effect is to restrain the growth of blossom buds of poplar trees so that poplar catkins can be controlled.

A terrible flood destroys the home of the AH family in a small village in China's Southern Guangdong province. Life was already a constant struggle for them, but this disaster turns their existence into a nightmare. Over a period of 12-months the filmmaker follows the family during the challenging period of building a new shelter. During this time they will have to confront many obstacles, material and emotional as well as those associated with local and regional governments, which in the end profoundly changes them forever.

Zheng Yaokun was arrested by police for an illegal deal with the cultural relics dealer Zhu Laowu by blind means. The cultural relics accidentally fell into the hands of designer Li Jun when he fled. From then on, a crazy game in which Zheng Yaokun looked for Li Jun, Zhu Laowu looked for Zheng Yaokun, and Li Jun assisted the police in handling the mantis catching cicadas and cardinals.

In a cold mountain village in northeastern China,when a peasant gets sick they invite the local shaman to do trance healing. In the village there is Shaman XU, a renowned shaman in the area who is almost 70-year-old. He had been a teacher in his youth and an accountant for a factory production team. In his later age, serving as a spirit medium became his profession. He beats his donkey-hide drum and sings ancient melodies, inviting all kind of spirits to come.

If the two conditions of self-control are long and long, they will linger in the pilgrimage. Because of the pains of parting Acacia, they will know more about cherishing the lifelong observance of the future. Whether you have experienced a strange land relationship, or are about to start, are still sticking to it, or you have already regretted it, or have a successful outcome, the “Faith of Distance” animation is for you!

A 90-year-old man struggles to care for his mentally handicapped son.