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Restart, created between 2008 and 2010 and exhibited for the first time in Germany in the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, puts forward a series of decisively new approaches. Aspects of the clash of civilizations, the entanglement of our technologies in the forms of our desire, the role of cultural – and intercultural – memory in commerce with our contemporary situation intersect in a medial attentiveness that lays before us the ambivalence, the seduction, and the disquiet in the experience of the virtual 3-D space and the – transbiomorphic – animation in a completely new manner. Let’s be clear from the start: “RESTART” is frightfully beautiful, unsettling, and enticing all at once, and it thereby hits a nerve with our contemporary desires and fears without having to become involved in the subconscious innocence-deal of a crisis that has apparently affected us as unexpectedly as only a sudden extraterrestrial comet impact could.

The urban fringe of Beijing is the loosen bricks from fragmented land. A result of urban development. The dynamic and complex urban system produced and blurred out the edges between cities and suburbs. The size, scale and land use of different areas are at constant conversion to each other, which becomes the foundation to China urban development and relative space of the society and the economy. In the video, several domestic vacuum cleaning robots are released at urban fringe. The robots navigate randomly in a demolishing area - a scene that we already witness and it could be found in different area under urbanization; a scene that is exciting and also being the norm in China. The robots - as the visitors from the outer space, arrive in our world. By taking in the dust and ashes at the urban fringe, the land reality is collected and made into a sample; a sample that conveys our all time obsession and celebration of modern contemporary.

Wang Hongwei, who played the leading role of Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" twenty years ago, is still playing a role in the new film directed by the young people; there are always crowd actors at the entrance of Beiying, they are looking for job opportunities that day or a place tonight; a The students in the art test class are preparing for the film exam. The two girls were excited to see the idol at a premiere; the projectionist in a small city complained about everything about the film, and he missed the previous red film; one A new film critic has participated in her first film festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival. They share various dreams: make a fortune, maintain artistic independence, and have a full meal.

This investigative documentary gives a comprehensive record of the development of China's "August 3 Crackdown on Mafia" campaign. Li Xiaoming, the main character of the film, escapes from the incident and goes through many ups and downs. The film explores that period from a personal point of view, slowly revealing the untold story of that period.

Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?

A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special African enclave Xiaobei.

With groundbreaking honesty, performance artist Li Ning turns his life into art in this epic work of experimental documentary. For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; and his enthusiastic but disorganized guerilla dance troupe. Li's chaotic life becomes inseparable from the act of taping it, as if his experiences can only make sense on screen. Tape shatters documentary conventions, utilizing a variety of approaches, including guerilla documentary, experimental street video, even CGI. Much like Jia Zhangke's Platform, Tape captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.

Under the mentality of Chinese families in a post-colonial society like Hong Kong and through their marriage, how did the couple realize their family members’ hope regarding their union? As the couple got married in a relatively open society like Canada, how are the newlyweds influenced by the western society’s mentality and its marriage regulations? Director Yung Chiman, bypassed the points of view of his own sexual orientation, hence through the objective images of a heterosexual, had captured the marriage process and its meaning to this homosexual couple.

A young Chinese immigrant stands up against the prejudices experiences externally and within their home.

Short film by Yang Bo.

Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet, DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are rapidly turning into deserts. The grasslands of the Tibetan plateau are home to the source of Asia’s major rivers. Nearly half of humanity depends on this water for survival. Tibetan nomads, known as DROKPA have roamed on this land for thousands of years.

The Ewenki people, who live in the Daxinganling Mountains, have been infected by modern life, with most of their young people moving away from reindeer herding and the forest, and the old fading fast. But there are still some of them who have stuck to the forest and lived with the reindeer, never leaving them. They want their culture to be inherited, not to disappear, because it is something they have loved all their lives. The film focuses on the life of the director's grandmother, Balajeyi.

After losing her lover to suicide, a young artist tries to overcome her grief by succumbing to a mysterious request by a Tibetan monk.

Paia means old grandmother in Duan dialect of Zhuang language. I know that the Paya in the film was at a lecture about left-behind children at Pudao Caotang Bookstore in Nanluogu Lane, Beijing. The small hall of the bookstore is full of people. I can only squeeze in a corner where I cannot see the presenter and the screen. After listening to the lecture and Q & A for nearly two hours. The presenter, Dr. Zhao Junchao, is an associate researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council. He conducted a survey in Duan, Guangxi for five years and published the book "A Survey of Left-behind Children in China." I was originally interested in "left-behind children", but in his story, an old lady attracted me: she lost six of her seven sons, and she supported the orphans left by the six or seven sons.

Back in the Year 1998 Lina from the northeast of China struggles as the new one in class because of her accent and her classmates. Then she falls in love with the young goodlooking English teacher.

The government of Kaohsiung City re-create the 8th Plant Project which located in Yengchen and there’s an electronic-mechanical street played as a very important role to support economic development of Kaohsiung City after World War II. But now, it is dispersion and decline. Finally, there’s a park. Through this documentary, the TKHEMS* group tries again to appeal the municipal government with helplessness. They wish that the procedure of urban development to be cautious and prudent. T.K.H.E.M.S. = Takou Association for Preservation and Development of Historically Electronic-mechanical Street.

The Chinese government provides the villages in the mountains of Sichuan (China) with films. The main character of this film is a projectionist who, 37 years ago, used to carry his old projector on foot and bicycle. He would display a small screen across the road or between trees in front of a farm... It's the same today except that he rides a motorcycle, carries a large screen and that the films travel two thousand kilometers from Beijing to Chengdu by satellite, before he picks them up on his motorcycle. Up in the mountains, people bring a stool out on the road and watch. That story takes place in Beijing and the beautiful mountains covered with bamboos above Chengdu

Since 2010 WEI Xiaobo has been documenting his and his girlfriend’s lives and produced a series of films titled ‘The Days’. This film focuses on the happenings between 2013 and 2017, when the two get married and encounter some new problems.

One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Diaspora, and beyond. The director has known the author and her family since the Seventies. The film reveals a woman of unusual charisma, integrity and determination, and a person in continual exile. She is the author of 24 books. She also co-founded the International Writing Program in Iowa, USA, with her now deceased husband, the poet Paul Engle. One Tree Three Lives is also their love story.

Ye Shishi's perfect life – career, family, and fiancé Li Han – shatters when she develops a tender connection with esthetician Zhuang Yan. Torn between duty and desire, she confronts agonizing choices about loyalty and self-discovery amidst societal expectations.

Former fighters of the Colombian FARC guerilla report in letters on their most formative experiences from their time in the armed underground. University students from three continents adapt these personal memories in a parallel collective process to develop a touching film whose visual joy of experimentation is impressive.

Meili is a woman with a cleft lip and palate. Because of her physical defect, she never went to any public places. But this time her daughter is about to get married...

This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I graduated from college, when I was staying in my village, I was always suspected and judged by the village people. Xizhu grandpa was called ‘fool’ by other villagers, and Zengxiang aunty was looked down by others. They come into my life, and I stayed with them. Their naïve and strange thought made think about my village in a new way. In this quite ‘normal’ village, who are normal people? In those normal people’s eyes, am I another fool of this village?

A male teenager, Sheng, wakes up in a clinic with no memory of how he got there. His doctor and parents tell him that everything is fine and he will feel better soon; however, he finds that he has endured a peculiar and unknown change. He struggles to uncover the truth about his illness and resorts to reading his diary. When he finally discovers the truth, he faces a difficult choice: following his family's religious beliefs or accepting his true identity.

Director Vincent Lan returns to his hometown Chengdu and reflects on the past years.

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film.

"Coward" tells a short story about a black cat who was thought to be afraid of mice by his neighbor's kids, from once the cat was taken to the next time. Coward's role reflected in every role in various degree. The animation does not explicitly indicate who is a coward, but appeal to people to have more understanding and more love.

Painter Gao Yuan’s experimental animation is composed of a series of surreal scenes, based on her acrylic paintings made between 2010-14. Objects and people find themselves in unusual situations where rules of gravity and structure do not apply. The familiar yet unnervingly offbeat scenes are connected through unexpected sounds and rhythms. Under the dim moonlight, the characters are stuck in a dream state from which they cannot awaken.

The story revolves around a quarrelsome couple, Cannon and Mimi who are involved in an online photography competition. Only the theme of the competition is `Supernatural`, so keeping in line with it, the couple head to a mansion in a remote village that`s known to be haunted. Upon their arrival, the housekeeper Mr. Huang dies of sickness and his funeral is held at the mansion. Yi, the grandson of the housekeeper arrives for the funeral in hopes to inherit his grandfather`s fortune. However, when these new occupants of the mansion, Yi, Cannon and Mimi have to stay together for 7 days, they go through various conflicts that include a mysterious woman from Yi`s childhood and the other secrets the mansion is hiding.

Set in the unique landscape of China's Loess Plateau, Of Shadows captures the liveliness and resilience of a group of local shadow play artists navigating between the rural staging of ancient plays and the urban spectacle of national cultural heritage.

Look Love closely follows the lives of two families living in completely different environments in order to show the gap in education and in region, the biggest social issue in present day China.

The buddhist sutra educational film, 'The Shurangama Righteousness', was produced by the Shi-Fang Leng Yan Academy of Rui Ji Si Monastery in Fujian, China. Made in 2015 -2017, the film is based on the chinese Mahayana buddhist text, the 'Sutra of the Foremost Shurangama'. It opens with the transmission of the Sutra from India to China by the Elder Monk, Master Paramiti, during the Tang Dynasty, and its translation from sanskrit to chinese at a monastery in Guangzhou, China. The translators' dialogue in the film forms the narrative backdrop for unfolding the story of Ananda's predicament involving a Matanga woman, how he was later rescued by the Buddha with the power of the Shurangama Mantra, and Buddha instructing on the way to ulimate enlightenment (First chapter of the Sutra)...