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In this 40-minute film, VICE China brings us into the lives of transgender individuals living in Mainland China and Hong Kong. It is estimated that there are at least 400,000 transgender people living in China. This is by no means a small number, and the realities of their lives are almost never as simple as those of transgender celebrities, like Jin Xing. This documentary not only presents the realities of transgender individuals in Asia, it also provides assistance to those living with unanswered questions about their own identities, giving an inside look on the process of sex reassignment surgery, as well as the social support available to LGBTQ communities.

Bu Qinfu, Wang’s mentor and colleague in the Kunming Military Arts Ensemble during the Cultural Revolution, was executed because of her dissent. When the state began to rehabilitate the victims of the Cultural Revolution, Bu’s name was never cleared: the army claimed that she died of illness and the local government described her death as “in the line of duty”. Wang, who witnessed Bu being escorted to her execution, spent ten years searching for the truth. Through extensive interviews with Bu’s fellow prisoners and relatives, Wang reveals the atrocities behind Bu’s death.

The Peach Blossom Fan (Chinese: 桃花扇; pinyin: Táohuā shàn; Wade–Giles: T'ao-hua shan) is a musical play and historical drama in 44 scenes that was completed in 1699 by the early Qing dynasty playwright Kong Shangren after more than 10 years of effort. The play depicts the drama that resulted in the 1644 collapse of the Ming dynasty. The play recounts the death of the Ming dynasty through the love story of its two main characters, young scholar Hou Fangyu (侯方域) and a courtesan named Li Xiangjun. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature has called it "China's greatest historical drama".

The companies Ngan Kong and Ng Teng Kei are classic brands with more than 70 years in Macao. After long, prosperous days, times have changed, bringing numerous problems. One of the properties had no choice but to sell its assets ending a seven decade story. The other one, however, just went in the opposite direction…

Rachel Tan is a young female candidate in the Singapore General Elections. With the media hot on her heels and the weight of family responsibilities on her shoulders, will votes still swing in her favour?

Kaspar lived through a depressing suicidal phase in life to be reborn as a trans-man, and become the beacon of hope for all transgenders who are struggling to realign their body with their soul.

Cinderella attempts to rescue her prince from the Devil's clutches.

Two boys spend a life-changing night exploring the streets of Hong Kong, and one another.

Xuan, a talented young Chinese musician who lives in New York city has a big dream of having a world tour as an indie-rock star. Not only because she loves music, but to her it seems the only way she can reveal her relationship to her family.

An introverted man who is scared of women decides to seek out a prostitute. Another man, a stranger, has chosen to help him find one, but instead leads him through a bizarre and unexpected night that intersects with the supernatural.

A documentary on the different places of Chinese and Tibetan exiled intellectuals and activists.

Anthology of three stories about different people in different places.

An animated documentary exploring how a mother's abusive relationship shaped the director's own experiences in boarding school.

The movie started in primary school, and then the children came home during the summer vacation. In this summer vacation, they will form an important ideological change, that is, how to face the upcoming junior high school life. He accidentally learned the feelings of his brother-in-law and his female classmate. Even a short love touched him greatly and he began to realize that life is not always beautiful. The scene at the end was also in school, but it was already junior high school. He had completed the transformation of his life and stood on a new road. Everyone has his own childhood, and everyone's childhood will end. However, not everyone's childhood will definitely and accurately end in a certain year. The little boy in our story had a longer childhood until he was about to enter junior high school.

A unique live event restaurant in Chongqing holds a mirror to China – how long will the staff submit to the company philosophy with its authoritarian collectivism?

The largest recycling ground in Beijing is located north of the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), where some 30,000 Henan people live and get rich by collecting the city's garbage. People live in temporary shelters next to piles of garbage, forming a unique "garbage land". The film is made up of independent stories, depicting the process of modernisation before inevitable demolition.

Young people all over China face pressure to marry and start families early, but the problem is even more acute for gay men and lesbians, given conservative attitudes towards homosexuality. Many homosexuals because of various pressures get forced into marriages of convenience with straight people, or even real marriages. This sort of marriage situation is a form of disloyalty, for many gay people the great institution of marriage has really turned into love's graveyard.

Eighty candidates have passed the written section of China's rigorous civil service exam. This documentary follows them as they spend ten days and nights cloistered in a hotel preparing for the interview portion.

Fresh out of college, boy gets fired from his first job by the CEO of the company. Little did the CEO know this guy would vow to come back and be a big star, or that they would fall in love.

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

In this film, Liu Hua, a female petitioner and survivor of Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp, describes the torture she and other women suffered there.

A chance encounter between a widower and his old flame in Taipei leads to a spontaneous stroll at night through a city as moody and volatile as their own memories and regrets.

A woman poses as her successful twin sister.

In the beginning there is nature. Landscape footage of the “Five Dragons” in the Yangtze Valley, the third-largest river in the world, a Unesco World Heritage site in the Chinese province of Chóngqìng, is coupled with views of the gigantic city of Chóngqìng, which resembles a juggernaut and dominates the valley. The beekeeper Shé Zuŏ Bīn performs a traditional rite of spring on one of the rocks. He allows queen bees to be placed on his body who then summon worker bees. By the end, Shé Zuŏ Bīn’s body is entirely covered by bees. In a kind of trance, he stands utterly still. The buzzing of bees dominates all. He trusts the bees completely, and for a moment they lose all that is dangerous, terrifying. They are a protective shield.