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Standing in Still Water reflects a few damaged lives, including a crippled young woman on the road of recovery; a man who sinks a dark secret to the bottom of the reservoir; the tale of a man struggling to recover from the loss of his daughter, and a young father who fails to reach out to his autistic son. The reservoir, the life-giver and life-taker, connects these four characters who face loss, death, hope, and love. And they are ultimately swept away by unrelenting waves of change.

Documentary about Chinese art students

Shanghai Queer documents LGBTQ communities' pursuit of equality and freedom in Shanghai, China.

A documentary film about a Chinese family discussing and arguing about what to do with a relative in severe condition in the hospital.

In December 2014, Mama Rainbow -a film about six Chinese mothers accepting their gay children -was deleted from Chinese video websites with no explanation. Now the filmmaker, Popo Fan, is on a quest to fight it. Interviews with Popo's lawyer, journalists, activists, and commentators, alternate with the endless laws and regulations to interrogate China's systemic use of censorship.

This is an adventure story about a Chinese hero. It describes a battle between Shennong, the god-king of Chinese medicine, and a beast created by his own illusion.

This film depicts daily life at a school for students with hearing and vision disabilities in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. As these girls deal with their everyday teen problems at school, they express themselves in sign language, movement, and the beautiful song Caro Mio Ben, conveying their rebelliousness against the teachers, their feelings for a beloved turtle, their anxieties about the future, and their anger at the unfair gods. As if watching over the growth of these girls, the camera carefully captures their words and gestures, staring deep into their vacillating hearts.

A temple and Maoism memorial hall was built together at a small country town, a film crew came here to make a Maoism film...

A Tribute to the book "The Dark Forest" by Cixin Liu

Should you keep some things to yourself? A nerdy guy (Liu Xun Zi Mo) becomes a laughingstock among everyone he knows when he tells people that he has an "invisible girlfriend." Is it just a joke to get him through the annoying Valentine's Day holiday or could he really believe what he is saying? "The Invisible Girlfriend" is a 2012 Chinese Web movie.

A Chinese rural girl Chun Hua is forced by her family to marry a man she never met before. After influencing by her cousin -Tong, a modern city girl, she decides to change her life.

Princess Long Ji is the Red Luan star. She fell in love with Yang Jian once by chance, so she went down privately just to see him. In order to relieve the thought of the five poisons, Lan Hao seals all his own memories and turns into a stone of a pure young boy, acquainted with the strange and peculiar Long Ji who accompanies him all the way.

Liu Xiaobo is a middle-level manager of a real estate company. His wife was hit and killed five years ago, but the owner of the car that caused the accident has not been found, which has become a worry in his heart. Wang Xin is the company's elevator supplier. Wang Xin falls in love with Liu Xiaobo, who is single. After a dinner where the two confirmed their relationship, a drunk driver hit a person on the way back and the two fled the scene.

In August 2009, the comrades-in-arms who had enlisted in the Kunming Military District Defense Arts Troupe in 1959 gathered in Kunming for a reunion, almost half a century later. Upon their long-awaited reunion, each face showed traces of hardship and deep emotion. They reminisced about the birth of the Defense Arts Troupe in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, followed by its gradual growth and mature revolutionary experiences. However, what remained unforgettable was the devastating Cultural Revolution, which inflicted great harm upon this "Red Artistic Team." Overnight, more than 300 members of the Arts Troupe were accused of being "57 counter-revolutionaries," and Bu Qinfu, a female actress in the drama troupe, was brutally killed during a public humiliation parade. In 1985, the organizational structure of the Defense Arts Troupe was dismantled, deliberately burying a history of bloodshed and cruelty.

Nie Xiao Qian, a lonely girl controlled by a monster, accidentally ran into Ning Cai Chen, a scholar who went to Beijing to sit for the imperial exam. Xiao Qian was preparing for a tribute for the demon tree grandmother Lao Lao. After being in good-natured nature, Xiao Qian repeatedly approached Ning Cai Chen and was moved by his innocence. After learning about Xiao Qian's situation, Ning Cai Chen asked Yan Chi Xia to retrieve Xiao Qian's soul, but was blocked by the old Black Mountain demon, and went through a period of tortuous and difficult experience from demon to human..

Eric, an American father with a midlife crisis, came to China to attend a meditation class without telling his family on the eve of his 45th birthday, but never thought that the living conditions in the temple were difficult and strict. Missing the hustle and bustle of the modern city outside the courtyard walls, Eric slipped out of the temple at night to experience the nightlife under the neon lights of Beijing, but unexpectedly met Vivian, a young tour guide who was also trapped by loneliness...

This is a documentary about faith, narrating the stories of a dozen or so Christians in the city of Tongchuan, in Shaanxi Province. Through the lives and beliefs of four generations of preachers, the film reflects on the profound influence of 50 years of social change on the local church. Whether recounting personal setbacks encountered on the serving path or people’s weaknesses, growth, or disputes within the church community, the film becomes a neutral and faithful portrayal of a group of preachers, of the history of the church community and of the status-quo of belief in this faithless era.

The documentary "The Garden" focuses on the "old city renovation" project of BaDaHu Residential area in Qingdao. After the film was released online, the renovation project of this residential area became the only illegal demolition activity that was stopped in China in 2010. A special report by China Central Television revealed that this project was demolished and built without government approval by impostor, fictitious official letter.

Datong, the mining capital of the Shanxi province. Bai Budan interviews miners, the invisible auxiliaries of Chinese society in the throes of change.

Yi Sheng is an introverted boy who experiences domestic violence at home. He is often bullied and humiliated in school. When he falls in love with another boy, his life undergoes earth-shaking changes. As the two boys grow closer to each other, their secret relationship is revealed by a video. Facing discrimination from their classmates and rejection from their parents, where will they go?

This is a story about how a girl accidentally met a little monster, was inspired by him and now has conflicting feelings for him.

The Third Front movement described by sons of workers who relocated in Gansu.

In this documentary, we follow the twenty-three families strong nomadic Guoshan tribe, a sub-group of Yaos. They follow a thousand year old tradition of selecting a new temporary home every two or three generations, usually distancing themselves from their previous temp-home by several hundreds of miles. Provided now with a substantial piece of land for them to build their own permanent village and farm their own land, the tribe's leader as well as thirty members decide to precede the tribe's move. Although they have a strong sense of community they are used to operating individually for their survival. In this instance, as they learn to become farmers, it has been decided between them to operate under a collective scheme, just as in the early days of China's communist revolution.

A father struggles to hold onto the remnants of his relationship with his son in the uncertainty of the present.

2016 graduation work of Zhou Dawei, Huang Xiaozhen and Li Haolong from the Animation Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

The light guides the young archer and helps him find the courage to fight the darkness.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, a 19 year old boy tries to reconnect with his mother after going to kung fu school against her will.

An old lady in deep sleep, back in time, dreaming of her past lover...

This short film was commissioned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of May 13, 1954, in which a peaceful assembly of more than one thousand boys and girls in Singapore was brutally broken up by riot police. The students had gathered to seek exemption for classmates affected by a new conscription law. To continue their protest, 800 students proceed to occupy Chinese High School. The film depicts a possible day in the occupation.