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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 young woman returns home to attend her father's funeral.

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.

100 years ago an archaeological expedition accidentally discovered a secret place, but they all died because of the earthquake. 100 years later Ma Wenjun, a researcher of Manas culture, died mysteriously, and his daughter Ma Siyu learned that her father had a secret from the Western Regions before his death, and went to find it. At the same time, Qian Wanli, a fake rich man who coveted the secret, uses a scheme to lure former members of the Little Wilderness team to the Western Region.

Hui Chang, who is pregnant, believes in Buddhism. She supports her family by folding and selling paper ingots. In a pregnancy check-up, she finds out that the fetus has a chromosome defect. In order to keep the baby, Hui Chang’s husband Guoliang Zhao takes her to a sorceress for a cure. In the process, Hui Chang’s faith is questioned and she suffers anxiety and pain.

Song Fei's time in the Yan household. Just like flowers, our life is timed. We grow in order to wilt.

G-Man and his arch-nemesis, the evil G-Head, have been enemies for ages. To fight against G-Head's wicked schemes, G-man assembles a team of heroes from various eras. However, G-man slowly realizes that his perception of being the hero is nothing more than an illusion, while G-Head simply desires to lead a normal life.

Xie Xiaojun and Lulu, his bride from Africa. return home to the mountain village, but Xiaojun's mother Li Cuihua arranges a match between her son and Shen Ying, a university student village official, and opposes her son's marriage to a black girl.

After falling into sleep, Jiang, a young painter, finds himself in a Taogu village where he meets a mute girl, Jiu'er and her foster father Old Bai who believed firmly in ancient Xiangchu gods. As an observer and participant of the dream, the veneration they showed to the gods deeply touched Jiang.

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

A young man couldn't bear poverty, so he went to the mountains to learn tricks and fell in love with the master's daughter. One day the young man came home and saw his wife having an affair, so he killed his wife, and then killed his master on the way back to the mountain.

To satisfy their families, Huanlin, a gay man, and Ziqiao, a lesbian, have agreed to have a marriage of convenience, which will be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, they have also agreed to have a baby and raise it together. However, this decision is changing their lives before they know it.

Kong is a screenwriter in crisis, who’s trying to meet a deadline. He is nervous, he has to get out of the current stalemate by hook or by crook. He tries but finds himself trapped in something new and unfamiliar.

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.

Saros presents a dystopian and speculative story. At the apex of a new cycle of solar activity, after the solar eclipse of the summer solstice, a family transforms into their domestic environment of a soap, plastic bag, simulated plant, and electric plug, in the shadow of the eclipse and the disruption of the electronic system.

This winter is cold and rainy. Unsustainable coffee shops, scientists who have disappeared, actors who are auditioning for the first time in their lives, and the last marriage contract that ends. They parted at this moment, they met at this moment.

Five young people who have never met each other accidentally enter a time and place where monsters are rampant.

An aspiring singer/songwriter, Hei, in his late 20s, has to decide whether to donate part of his liver to his estranged dad as requested by the dad’s gay partner, Oscar.

In late September 2008, Xiaomin, class president in her elementary school graduating class, is reported by her classmates to have been seen consorting with street hooligans outside the school. She must answer to teachers and then to her parents about the reason for her actions. But did she really do anything wrong? A story of everyday injustice based on actual events in the Chinese director's youth.

After signing with an "agency", a young singer moves into her new company apartment. During her first live-stream, she is hypnotized by a generous fan. The morning after, she wakes up from a fetishistic nightmare with black goo in her mouth. Soon, she develops insomnia and everything becomes a blur..

Meng Li was betrayed by his brother. After being injured, he ran into obstacles and his life was unsustainable. Li decided to get back on his feet for the sake of his family and returned to the corner with the help of Shopkeeper Zhou.

Diary based on my Instagram story; Documentary poetry about my mom, her fashion design career, my hometown Shenzhen (a city bordering Hong Kong), and myself in the summer of 2019. The more I traveled, the more I felt unbridgeable gaps among different cities, towns, and ideologies. But I wanna be a bridge.

Jinyintan Primary School invited a good singer Xiao Danzhu to perform, but parents and students don't like the Tibetan love song "Rai", which is a national intangible cultural heritage. Ye Ye, a beautiful volunteer teacher from the city, was attracted by Xiao Danzhu's singing, and the two fell for each other. However, they didn't know that Ye Ye's mother was the lover of Danzhu's father decades ago... .. Is it true that he fell in love with his half-brother? What's the secret here?

In this series of short films, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Shanghai Night", "My Own Life", and "A Proper Man".

“Surplus Intelligence” is a film that was written by Artificial Intelligence, simulated on a game engine, and directed by Miao Ying. Using Machine Learning Text Generation Neural Networks and Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the artist trained the AI to study different styles of writing, including behavioral psychologist, B. F. Skinner’s utopia novel, “Walden Two"; the most popular Chinese online novel style “ 霸道总裁体 ”/ soft-core sadomasochistic Cinderella story depicting a domineering boss; opposing ideological theories; and bible stories.

Isabella, a washed up former girl group idol who's suffering a dual crisis of career and age, decides to make a comeback with live streaming. She plans to become a lead influence through selling emerging biochemical funds. However, her live stream goes out of control with the intrusion of a hacker who claimed to be preparing to release a biochemical virus.

"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.

This time, "bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" uses lanterns to create scenes, plays to express love, and uses puzzles as colors to create a picture of Shangyuan with beautiful reunion and love. The whole program focuses on searching for Aoshan lanterns. Aoshan Lantern is a large-scale lantern for the Lantern Festival in ancient times. Its scale and grandeur are comparable to buildings and palaces, and it can be called the king of the lantern family. This program uses opera elements extensively, such as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Henan Opera, Pingju Opera, Qin Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera...the list goes on and on. At the same time, it cites the mix and match of opera and pop music, keeps the integrity and innovates, and combines new styles and new accents.

The artistic youth, who had been beaten up, finally found a job in the factory, bringing relief to the masses! Two misunderstood artistic young women showcased their hobbies in the film and eventually joined the workforce, becoming the historical dust that petty bourgeois despised. The film, also known as "The Chronicle of Liang Guo's Entry into the Factory," tells the story of Liang Guo, who, due to his excessive love for literature and art, failed to get into a prestigious university and ended up working in a factory. Liang Guo's experience failed to elicit sympathy from any petty bourgeois but instead led to their insults. This illustrates the grim future for literature and art enthusiasts, where only the pursuit of capitalist pleasures remains the future for urban youths.

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.

People’s experiences are combined with memories to tell the story behind the lost property. The little pencil, the shared hair cord – those we cherished become vanished in time and space. Do these things we lost want to come back to us?

How can one get back their memories, if the places they familiar with were all gone suddenly? An experimental short trying to use urban legends to analyze the situation in modern Chinese cities. Pieced together with 35mm film stills, super 8 film roll and digital still images, “darkly negative prints” reflects the massive urbanization movements in the city Hangzhou.

The girl ran away after the kite, and the grandmother went to look for the girl, but always missed her. When the girl grew up and found the kite, the grandmother became old and mute, but she still remembered the girl and the girl's kite.

In the Republican Era Shanghai, two women from different statuses are unexpectedly drawn to each other.

By exploring the possibilities of combining AI-generated content with hand-drawn 2D animation, it tells a story of a mobile phone that experiences the plight of modern people in a serendipitous epiphany, learning what it means to be human between life and death.

When Zhean finds an old letter from his now deceased grandfather, old conflicts with his parents return. Can he bury the past or does he have to leave?

A movie about the Spring Festival Gala, the homesickness and New Year customs of Chinese overseas. It records a group of Chinese who carefully prepared a Spring Festival Gala for their beliefs. However, there are many difficulties in the process of preparation. A series of funny stories have taken places.

Sachiko and Ming are living together, perhaps they are a couple. They discuss everyday things, slip into different roles and thus tell each other about their relationship.

Evoking the “Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain, this delightful film contrasts the lives of two young Chinese boys. The masterful intercutting of the boys’ lives is comical, heartbreaking, and profound.