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Fortune From Heaven

It is going downhill for the social environment, and with that development the proportion of the population that is infertile is growing. Due to low fertility rates, the Chinese government has reformed its policy in this area. In the past decade, this has, among other things, affected one of the largest IVF centers in China.

If healthy organs, like seeds, can be replanted and heal any failing body, will human life be longer or shorter? An ailing mother slaughtered a vagrant she had been feeding for years for her sick son. To save his mother, the cured son killed for the criminals. They were victims of exploitation as well as violent offenders.

This film is set in a remote town during the era of the Republic of China, where the poor Xu Tianyou and his mother struggle to make a living. During a thunderstorm, Xu takes shelter in a pavilion where he encounters three mysterious men gambling with a box of silver coins. The winner would take all the coins inside the box. Xu joins the game but one of the players suddenly drops dead after losing, and Xu realizes that this was a deadly game. Afterwards, several servants in the town are found murdered and strange occurrences begin happening. Detective Han Ming and the mayor's daughter Zhang Paner team up to investigate and track down the killer.

Into the Island is the first chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of engagement with new project sites.

The sleep-inducing viruses become active when humans fall asleep. One of the viruses, V, wishes to dream like a human.

The documentary that uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery. Through interviews and previously unseen archival materials, we follow three decades of this artist’s creative and spiritual quest far from his homeland.

As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary phenomenon might sit in the grand palimpsest of China’s history. As with all of Zhang’s work, this is a committed, reflective, formally assured non-fiction film, grounded in collaboration and blessed with an uncanny sense of unhurried time.

Guo and Pao, childhood friends who grew up together, face conflicts over a half-meter distance while building their new houses, nearly breaking their friendship. Nevertheless, fate has something else in store for them.

A feast for the senses, preserving memories forever Countless beloved songs, unforgettable stories 127 minutes of the most heartfelt musical hospitality Featuring a groundbreaking four-sided stage! A 360-degree rotating stage with rising and moving petals. The concert's sincerity is evident in its sold-out success. Chang Ching-fang personally serves as artistic director. Six thematic audio-visual feasts. Forty-nine musicians perform newly arranged compositions; 16 dancers recreate 1970s choreography.

In the months that follow the seventy-day citywide covid lockdown, three couples in Shanghai meet to talk, and to manifest their traumas in acts of fantastical violence.

Lingering Dream of Homeland (2023) is a feature-length film by writer/director Li Weinian, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, China. Centered on the story of a multi-generational family from Taishan in the 1920s and 1930s, the film explores themes of immigration, family separation and cultural preservation. Highlighting the history of Taishan, Li Weininan brings the beauty of its landscape and traditions to the big screen. In Cantonese, with Chinese and English subtitles, and with locally cast Taishanese actors, Lingering Dream of Homeland is appropriate for viewers of all ages.

At the end of 2019, Cheng Gong and his wife had a big fight over their household duties. His wife was fed up with Cheng Gong choosing work over his family. In anger, she left him a divorce agreement and took their daughter, Qiqi, to her mother’s house. Cheng Gong, taking the advice of his good friend Qiangzi, decided to go to South Korea to relieve his stress. Despite enjoying himself in South Korea, Cheng Gong still missed his wife and daughter. However, after failing to reach his wife several times, Cheng Gong began to collapse emotionally and started drinking to drown his sorrows. Under the influence of alcohol and the atmosphere, Cheng Gong gradually lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found himself alone on a bench in the park, having lost all his money and belongings while he was drunk at the bar. At first, Cheng Gong thought he simply got lost. However, he soon discovered that he was about to face a world-shaking change.

To regain her gender confidence, a 12-year-old tomboy tries to get her first kiss from a young tenant at her house, only to discover to her heartbreak that they are just two kids both confused about who they are.

A Chinese student who always want to be a film director came to Japan for the next step of his life. Then he contact his college classamate to do a documentary film project out of his love experience. Unfortunately he got dumped by a girl who is in Kyushu. Eventually, they created a hybrid film.

Altynai is an orphan girl living in a remote mountain area. though she is in her youth, altynai has never got a chance for proper education. a new administrative structure decides to establish the education system in the rural areas. one day, duishen an attractive stranger, comes to the village to open a school for children. young altynai also joins the school to study. together with the other ordinary villagers who don’t know the value of education, both aunt and uncle of altynai try to destroy the school.

Two teenagers, Lu Ang and Yu Ming, come from troubled family backgrounds. Lu Ang’s middle-class family struggles with a lack of communication, while Yu Ming’s single father resorts to violence to “teach” him. Both boys share a sense of loneliness, which deepens when they save a transfer student, Zheng Wanhe, from campus violence. The three form a bond and join the school chorus. However, their families face major crises: looming divorces, grandparents falling victim to scams, and personal trauma. As they navigate these challenges, Lu Ang and Yu Ming gain a new understanding of life, friendship, and identity. The film addresses significant social issues such as bullying, child abuse, and the emotional toll of growing up in a society fraught with pressure, offering a poignant exploration of adolescence in modern China.

Set in an ice castle amid a sweeping frozen landscape, “Windersweet on the Snow” expresses spiritual longing and connection as two dancers embody the flowering of a new dawn. Through the oblivion and desolation of the snow field, their flowing flame lights the journey through seasonal change and mystical evolution.

A woman who is highly punctual at her daily life encounters a series of paranormal phenomenons involving her partner, which ultimately forces her to face the love tragedy she refuses to acknowledge. The story is inspired by a true story happened in Beijing in 2019.

A giant sea serpent and it's horde of aggressive minions lay siege to a cruise ship leaving a mutated oversized gorilla breaking free from the cargo hold to try and save the day.

After realizing he will soon not be able to take care of his intellectually disabled son, Li Da, a middle-aged man embarks on a journey to his estranged brother’s home.

In a world where they are often unseen, misunderstood, and unspoken of, four members of a queer cultural collective led by Pharos navigate lives of shifting identities in China. It’s a story about the unseen, the misunderstood, and the courage to be oneself.

"Birds would fly, China caged at all." Unlike the West, China and its economic activities fend for themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exports have been halted overall due to the Chinese CCP's confidence in the totalitarian control and the mirage of domestic economic resurgence throughout the socio-political regime. The countless factories and plants like I recorded this time were scraped by the stress. China re-enters a dilemma of self-consuming, selling at home and being like the rest part of the world as well as enclosed again, similar as the circling laborers in this documentary film. The impacts spread to at least millions of manufacturing are as such as the Shangyu, Wufu plant in Zhejiang Province.

Bin and Yuan are brother and sister. When they’re not working, they share a small apartment in Marseille. This is their haven, a space where they can rest. Here they can be connected to the outside world at all hours of the day and night, and especially to their home country, China, to which Yuan is planning to return.

Two girls, returning to their hometown, Yibin, for different reasons, matched on Tinder. They were each contemplating their next steps: one had just lost her job in Beijing and moved back home, while the other was on vacation after returning from the United States. One of the girls’ question brought their thoughts together: would the world change us, or would we change ourselves? During their date, questions and discussions gradually revealed the issues between them. The river and the passing train illuminated their relationship.

A down-on-his-luck courier learns he has terminal cancer. With only months left, his greatest worry is his young son, so he spends his remaining time trying to secure the boy a loving home.

In the first 30 years of the PRC, in order to maintain and consolidate CCP’s rule, political campaigns were frequently launched. Landowner Liu Wencai’s home in Sichuan province became the "Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall," serving to educate people about the class struggle. Tens of thousands visited daily. The cluster of sculptures entitled "Rent Collection Courtyard" was the subject of a documentary film and the prototype for copies of statues exhibited across the country. The overwhelming media publicity turned Liu Wencai into the representative of the "heinous crimes" of the landlord class and he became a household name, influencing several generations. Liu Xiaofei, grandson of Liu Wencai, has suffered from injustice since his childhood and began his interviews and investigations into this catastrophe for his family twenty years ago, in order to “clear” the charges against his grandfather and restore the historical truth.

Packages may have gone through some incredible things before the courier reached us. The film is inspired by the author’s real experience of losing a courier. Made using stop-motion animation techniques.

Luo Luo looks after her father and granddaughter while she fingers the pages of a diary from her teenage years. “The joy of expression” overflows in her home as she connects with friends and gets her family involved even while they are shut-in due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cotton Candy has a big dream of becoming a robot scientist. Through a fortunate coincidence, she and her mother, Cloud, get a chance to design and invent robots. However, they must overcome challenges and repeated failures. Will they succeed in creating Cotton Candy's dream robot? What happens when the lovable Jelly Robot unexpectedly goes haywire? How do the mother-daughter duo support each other and work together to achieve their dreams？

As Dongshan Island has just lifted Covid-19 lockdown, Zhen, a 14-year-old girl living with her father on the fish raft, occasionally has the opportunity to accompany her friend Mei to go shopping in town. On the way, she secretly wants to go to the city to reunite with her mother…

Ten years after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Yushu, a group of professional musicians search for new voices of Tibetan folk songs in local primary schools. The new generation carries the hopes of Tibetan families, and in their bright voices, we can sense warmth, human resilience, and inner strength.

Short documentary by Hu Jie about his own 2014 art exhibition of the same name, curated by art critic Li Xianting.

Ten years ago, while my dad was suffering from depression, my mom hid all the truth from me. Years later, she entered a marriage again, and I found that she gradually became happier, and the void created by Dad’s death seemed to only trap me. So, with a little anger and a lot of confusion, I began to try to talk to her.

The door gods, as deities guarding the entrance, are deeply beloved by the people. In this story, the two door gods get into a farce due to their competition for superiority, which results in both sides suffering defeat.

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.

In the square, an officer is evicting a stall man. In the cafe, a man and a woman are talking about the rumors about them. And somewhere in the distance, three girls are pointing their phone cameras at the cafe.

A love letter to home and an offering to nature, this meditative personal documentary traces Shasha's native roots in Himalayan China as she evacuates from historic wildfires that threaten her home in Cascadian Oregon.

Far away from his parents, Xiaohui lives with his grandfather in the mountains. When a calf is to be sold, the witty nine-year-old does everything in his power to prevent the separation of mother and child. A soulful cry for love in capitalist times.

In a tiny, six-square-meter room, a young Chinese man named Eryang envisions a republic of his own.

Lin, 30, a single lady has helped her sister raise her daughter Xue (7) since she was born. However, the sister suddenly takes Xue back to live with her totally turning Lin’s life upside down.