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Living in a small town in northeastern China, Wu was once head of the workshop of the town’s wool mill but lost this supposedly life-long job when the mill went bankrupt, and worked as a janitor in his nephew’s bar to make a living. With his wife gone and his son living elsewhere, Wu was gradually despised by people around him as he started drinking his days away.
Artificially intelligent android maids leave their owners behind to gather at the seaside.
Alexander, a victim of school violence, tries to kill himself one night, but he meets a boy, Helen, who helps him through the hard times, and eventually finds out that Helen doesn't really exist, just a personality (alter ego) of his.
A story about escaping and searching for the same kind. A tiger escaped from the zoo and went to the jungle to find its own kind. A man who escaped from prison met another man in the cinema at night.
In the first scene of the film, the characters in the story enter a child's dream, trying to return to their childhood by looking for strange and familiar memory images in the dream. The film starts with the director's private memories. The still images come from the images and old films taken by the director back in the village where he lived in his childhood. Through the interpenetration of memories in dreams and the present, it explores how "people" deal with trauma at the psychological level.
On September 30, 2021, musician Yiran Zhao died of illness, ending his legendary life. He lived passionately, loved deeply, and brought a lot of music and joy to friends and his fans. In his later years, Zhao was tormented by illness, living in isolation and rarely seeing friends. "Farewell to 1988" records his life in rural Beijing suburbs from 2017 to 2020. audiences can get a glimpse of Mr. Zhao under the stage, his illness, his persistence and rejection, his thoughts and regrets.
Five years after living in New York, a young writer visits his best friend with a new novel he wrote.
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.
A young same-sex couple, detained on an island, comes into contact with a mysterious disease.
For the first time, Biubiu spends his holiday with his grandmother and uncle in the country. Everything is so different there, he is even told to eat fried insects. But even worse is that the boys from the village don't play with him. But Biubiu does not let himself be shaken off.
I'm a dog who lives under a bridge in a park...
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..
Shortlisted for "Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival" After "Ghost Hospital", South Korea's live broadcast is another terrifying documentary horror film. Do you dare to come here to receive authentic Korean "blessings", "if it's a ghost, come out, if it's a human, get out!!" The director's debut film: a film that confronts human nature, more terrifying than ghosts, and unpredictable development. Deep in the mountains of Gangwon-do, in an abandoned church known for its ghosts, TV producers, wizards and mystical experience groups want: Prove the existence of ghosts! Taking an unexpected turn, in this spooky church, mysterious figures begin to appear to those who come to experience these bizarre events.
After the COVID-19 time, the weather gradually turned cool and the octogenarian couple led a quiet life. The couple realized that there were only three people left in their generation after stumbling upon a photo. So they decided to visit their relative who lived in another city.
A man transporting his prize pig runs out of gas just as the COVID-19 pandemic breaks out.
Back in her family home, Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A Long Journey Home tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational and temporal journey that stirs up emotions while challenging contemporary China’s “making a family” from the inside. This is a brilliant quest for emancipation seeking a place among one’s own people.
Hu Jie short film.
Viewers are led by the young and energetic protagonist, the Material World Knight (an asexual figure) to travel through multiple identity transformations. In eight episodes they explore the universe, acquire energy, are destroyed and reborn, and experience internal battles with emotions and desires. Along the journey, accompanied by dramatic music and sound effects, the Knight makes observations, expressing views on life and death, happiness and suffering, desire, eternity and the cycle of transmigration, the passage of a soul after death into another body.
Spacewarp is a collaborative audiovisual piece commissioned by Audi & UCCA Lab. All visuals are programmed and generated using Processing. The soundtrack "Denatonium" is produced by 3ASiC.
A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she has thought as much about death as about living well. As the hospital has been her playground, the daughter is familiar with the scene of death, but the thought of losing her mother scares her.
Yang Yi and Brother Qi are like birds of feathers, both of them stepped into the society at around 16 or 17, they led the followers, collected the debt, solved problems, fought, thrived, it was in the 90s of last century. Now, they are in their middle age. Every time in reminisce, they would sigh how things have changed.
An impressionistic visualisation of sound through automatic drawing and a semiconscious state of mind.
A study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. Revealing the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and using them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
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.
What are we doing after the war？
A nine-year-old tomboy must choose between the neighborhood boys and the intriguing local shop girl
Bai Lu, a 12-year-old girl in a small village in China, is not allowed to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother because she has started her period for the first time. Bai Lu does not understand why her menstruation is considered "ritually unclean."
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.
An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of China in the 1930s, a young traveler's visions of the melancholic landscapes of his homeland, the narratives of movements in early Chinese silent films. Through these fragments of travelogues, the film explores the nature of consciousness in motion and what it means to use archives, images, and cinema as documentations as well as vehicles for travel.
A boy, a question, a pack of lies, and a knock on a half-sister's door for the first time.
'Pear Garden,' captures a fleeting moment nature's beauty, redefining the connection between fashion and the mesmerizing allure of a pear orchard.
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.
Since 2020, the beginning of Coronavirus, "Shouting in the building" this phenomenon caught my attention countless times. It does not seem to me that people are Shouting, but that the buildings, the rooms themselves, are Shouting, and it embodies the throbbing of the earth itself in the new age we live in.
It is a love story during a whole day between a girl who majors in fine art working on her graduation project and a director who wants to make his debut movie. A romantic love story like “before sunrise” happening in shanghai, with various homage to classic films like “the dreamers”.
A major athlete has an injury and a talented new recruit raises the spectre of jealousy.
Fang Junrui is a 30-year-old hospital guard who lives in an old tiny flat with his parents in the center of Shanghai. He has been passionate about relic restoration but couldn’t find a related job for years. That has led to his disappointment in life. He routinely buys arts and history books but runs out of space to store them, irritating his parents who own the flat. Things started to change when a friend from the church and the film director came to his life. He felt like that his life was moving again at God’s will.
A herd of elephants, leaving their homeland, journey over 1700 km across Yunnan. Humans guide them, reflecting on protecting wildlife habitats. The elephants build trust as they seek food, water and shelter during their epic journey.
A girl who is not aware she crossed over into the afterlife; is life itself but a dream within a dream?
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.