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The connection between Chen and northeast China is more than overview. He is a witness, but he is also northeast China itself. Chen Haoyang, a seventy-four-year-old retired air force pilot, has cancer. He decides to embark alone on a journey.

A bunch of indie filmmakers came to the grassland，everybody stayed in a tent, just open their mind and be sincere. They made conversations, which were about their confusion for life and be puzzle for artistic creation. Multifaceted sentiments were created. The goats were not vegetarian animal anymore，and the interlocutors were eating goats. An old man wanted to possess a young girl, the so-called artists were actually a tribe of infantile children. The goats were naked and waiting to be sparked…

This story happens in the southern part of Beijing. Lee, the motor-taxi driver's and his family live in a dilapidated tenement yard. His disobliging sister always asks him for the relocation of the tenement yard and urges her brother's family to repay the money. Kai's classmate, named Er Dong, a bad boy whose father is the lecherous principal, frames a case against Kai that he had stolen the monitor's cell phone. The teacher always looks upon on Kai, he denounces Kai without any investigation and gives a slap on Kai's face. Kai hit the teacher with a brick in great impulsion and the principal dismissed Kai. Because of this, Lee has to beg the principal for retraining the punishment on Kai, besides, Lee has to offer a bribe for his son. At last, grandpa passed away quietly, lee was arrested by the police because of the prostitute's tip-offs. Kai stands lonely on the rooftop of his dilapidated house, sees the blinding sunlight and hears the cockcrow......

On April 6, 2001, a gas explosion occurred in the Chenjiashan Coal Mine of the Tongchuan Mining Bureau in Shaanxi Province, killing 38 people. On November 28, 2004, a gas explosion occurred in the Chenjiashan coal mine, and 166 people were killed. Five years later, Lin Xin, the son of the miners, filmed this film about mine disasters. Through the oral interviews of more than 20 people, such as miners and family members of the victims, and random interviews on the street, the film presents the real life of the miners and the cruel and complicated social reality behind the mine disaster from different angles. This film is the end of Lin Xin's "Trilogy of Survival".

I came to the "90 km-long traffic jam, road transport of coal (news)," the Shenmu and Fugu, Coal makes this town less than one million people among the Chinese economy in the forefront. And arrived here three days later, Pass me a tramp pointing to the front for me, "in front of you can find a dream." I gave up being shocked shoot spectacular traffic jam events. I start shooting those who rub shoulders with Seoul before, Children, adolescents, youth, middle-aged, elderly. We talked about the harsh reality of the real Titanic, We are also talking about the illusory ideals, My ideal also quietly began to grow from here.

In the mountains of western Fujian, mushrooms emerge in large numbers after rain. Hakka people pick mushrooms up the mountain with baskets at three or four o 'clock in the morning. The process of picking mushrooms is also the process of harvest.

Yu and Jun were in love for years. Their relationship interfered by another man from time to time. For love or just curiosity, Jun followed Yu to a bar. There he fell for this man. One night of stalking made the loneliness of three men became one sort of love.

He (she), as a small group of people who are not recognized by the current society, suffers from misunderstanding and discrimination caused by society and family, and they experience various violence problems, work discrimination problems and medical problems. Through 8 transgender people and their families, doctors, and our most real camera stories, take you to approach, understand, and get to know them.

Short film by Chen Dandizi.

Short animation by Tian Yulin

Every mother develops an indivisible bond with her child. This connection remains forever in their resembling personalities, even after they stop living together. However, with the fast social development, from time to time, the family structure changes. My mother is a casino dealer. I forgot how long ago have we talked and listened to each other. The gentle whispers of "good morning" or "good night" are long gone from our lives.

It's never an easy work of making money. Some people in China devote themselves into their career in the US company AMWAY due to its rosy prospect. What they do is organizing meetings, seeking for new partners, selling products. They find it extremly exciting and inspiring. Mr Wang chose to enter in this game. He enjoyed it in spite of he never gaining from it. While his senior partner, Mr Li,was alway unstable. He confused with his future, but couldn't make a final decision of giving up. 'modus vivendi' is about people struggling, slightly, for a better life. Nobody benefited from the project, but it made things seem to be different.

A monkey is kept in a cage by her master. She can’t speak, but we can understand her wailing. She won’t resist. She just swings her body in the cage so that she seems to have something to do. And almost like for us, every day and night for her becomes one long day from birth to death.

A short film about a groom, who kisses his best man the night before he gets married. Only for the wedding to end in blood.

Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.

The splash of water is like a bomb, about to break the tranquility of the pool.

A temple and a market coexist in a peculiar location. The story tells us about the daily lives of people and cats around here. The space plays the lead. Sound and shadow drive the entire plot of the story. It is an attempt to make a new type of animation.

The second short film in The Tale of Heroes from Chaoshan series, famous for being one of the most popular so-bad-it’s-good titles from mainland China.

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

ONE MIND is an immersive cinematic meditation on Zen monastic life in China, where a communion of nature, meditation, and labor reveals a carefully crafted way of life that reflects the very wisdom it seeks to cultivate.

In earlier times Chinese families were expected to take care of their aged parents. But in the new, competitive climate, family ties have been fraying. And 70-year-old Liu becomes its victim.

The real life of a low-income family living in the southern part of Beijing, which mainly lives on social benefits.

PAD YATRA: A Green Odyssey is the adventure of 700 people trekking across the Himalayas with a call to save the planet's "3rd pole," a glacial region now devastated by the climate chaos associated with global warming. Battling the most treacherous terrain on the planet, the trekkers spread their message of ecological compassion through human's most basic means -by walking on foot, village to village, and showing by example. Surviving harrowing injuries, illness, and starvation, they emerge with nearly half a ton of plastic litter strapped to their backs, triggering an historic green revolution across the rooftop of the world.