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The world and I are lost.

Through the quiet rhythms of everyday life and her imagination, Chunyan drifts between two worlds—her hometown of Enping, China, and her new home in Manzanillo, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

Zhu Yudi’s almost painfully riveting debut feature chronicles the life of a gambler—the filmmaker’s own father—as he casts his family into spiraling debt with each new “can’t fail” investment in Chinese building construction. Zhu’s documentary project holds the promise of forgiveness and reconciliation, but as his father’s estrangement from his wife and sons grows increasingly acrimonious and desperate, one is left wondering about the countless other families who have become casualties of China’s real estate bubble.

In a Yunnan phosphate fertilizer manufacturing plant, a man and a woman with different concerns meet. Their love is entangled with a missing case, and their romantic story gradually unveils the truth of the case and a hidden past...

Rui Qi, an ordinary amusement park employee with a passion for e-sports, finds herself thrust into the competitive gaming world during the park's transformation. Facing prejudice from professional gamers and betrayal from former teammates, Rui Qi and her team endure numerous setbacks. Through unwavering dedication to e-sports, they overcome challenges and successfully embark on a professional gaming career.

A hybrid documentary blending dramatized reenactments and real-life interviews, exploring the revitalization of rural Fujian through the lens of the "Elderly Learning Centers," highlighting cultural inheritance and community empowerment.

Raised amidst the Hani terraces and ancient melodies, sisters Zaochun and Guyu choose divergent paths after university: one becomes an environmental investigator, the other a village official. Their differing visions for their homeland's future lead to conflicts, but ultimately, they find common ground in balancing preservation and development.

Xiaoxian's father is a policeman, and she herself is stuck in the monotonous confines of her cramped room. Until one day when, while reviewing her father's case file, she stumbles upon a diary that unveils the life of another Tibetan girl, Yicuo Ma. The present, the past, the diary, and imagination intertwine and ferment. As Xiaoxian sets out to uncover the truth, she finds that reality is even more absurd—yet Yicuo Ma's sincere and unpretentious spirit remains with Xiaoxian forever.

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After having a hard time finding a job in New York, Jiaqi decides to go back to China during the pandemic while her boyfriend Pingu insists to stay for his ambitious thesis film production. However, a sudden announcement interrupts Jiaqi’s plan. During their separation, both of them have a chance to experience a special period of their lives.

Fifth-grade boy Sun Yue was asked by his teacher to dress up as a girl to participate in the chorus competition to make up for the imbalance between men and women. Facing the pressure from the collective and the teacher, on the day of the competition, Sun Yue made a bold decision...

In this spine-tingling thriller, The Escape Door takes viewers on a heart-pounding journey as a group of strangers trapped in a mysterious building must rely on their wits to survive. As secrets unravel and paranoia builds, they realize the true horror may lie not in the building itself but in the dark pasts they each carry with them. Who will make it out alive, and who will be left behind?

Returning to his hometown for the Qingming Festival, a 27-year-old Chinese gay man grapples with hiding his sexuality to meet his family's marriage expectations, leading to a tense showdown during the traditional chicken slaughter ritual.

In a remote village, a boy struggles under the suffocating grip of his dictatorial father. As he desperately seeks freedom, he soon realises that escape is not as simple as it seems.

After being wrongly accused of causing a disturbance during her mother’s English tutoring class, teenage Xi Jinwen storms out in frustration—unaware that her impulsive exit will set the stage for an unexpected visitor.

This is a story built around a barber shop, two relationships, and three closely-related individuals; it is all about “moving on and getting over”.

Ordinary life repeats itself every day. The succession of moments that we repeat over is never the same, and everything changes. Only the feeling of the body touching something, which exists only in this present reality, can be recognized as “now.” That moment is lovely.

Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races—the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps—the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.

Late August, 2022, an unprecedented heatwave engulfed the historic city of Xiaoshan in southern China, which was undergoing a major transformation in anticipation of the upcoming Asian Games. Young boys Yu Jiajia and Zhou Chengcheng had just started middle school that year. On the final three days of summer vacation, their homework answers and electronic devices were suddenly confiscated. Faced with an overwhelming amount of summer homework they hadn’t even begun, they had no choice but to pack their backpacks, brave the scorching heat and sunlight, and traverse the streets, bridges, parks, and rivers of Xiaoshan. Along the way, they played and laughed, searching the streets and alleys of the water town for classmates and friends who could offer assistance.

Guang was left behind for ten years, live with his grandpa, then the cattle were lost, grandpa was dead, the land was destroyed.

Parallel lines sometimes intersect.

A grieving mother sets out to break free from the grip of haunting trauma. A meditation on memory, love, resilience, and the echoes that trauma leaves behind.

A young Chinese woman's healing journey overcoming her traumatic injury at a Moroccan hospital, laced with morphine induced forbidden romance out of a dream like garden.

After a queer Chinese medicine practitioner is brutalized at a recent protest, their community comes together in quiet acts of healing.

By the seaside, a woman waits for a man.

Don the crown that halts life; Even death itself favors lowered eyes; Walk through the palace of farewells; Connect to the world of the departed; Amid the icy depths and funeral hymns; Days and nights; Bow over this snow-covered land; Become the only song here; All sighs flow from her fingertips; All words of comfort are stopped by her hands; All cries of grief are swallowed by her palms.

The foreman, Lao Niu, is being pressed for unpaid wages by his fellow villagers. Unfortunately, the contractor and construction subcontractor, Manager Gao, is also owed contract payments by Song, the developer of the "Fenhe Garden" project. As the real estate market continues to slump, all those involved, burdened by their own wrongdoings, are trapped like a row of doomed grasshoppers tied together— roasting over a fire with no escape in sight...

Eight-year-old Xu Letian is called to bring his parents to school after getting into a fight and bringing tadpoles. Xu Letian must find a new home for the tadpoles, and on his journey, he stumbles upon a secret that sets his family apart from others.

Under the rules, we are in a box, and within the box is one game after another. This movie uses the game as a metaphorical vehicle to explore the conflict between social discipline and self-will.

Shi Yan, an optimistic and cheerful young woman who loves traditional Chinese martial arts, trains under coach Wang Mingyang and dreams of opening her own martial arts school. As they practice together, their mutual admiration blossoms into love, and they share a blissful romance. However, Wang Mingyang aspires for more than just being a martial arts instructor. He seeks fame by attempting to summit Kawagarbo - the unconquered highest peak of Meili Snow Mountain - planning to gain internet fame through a live broadcast. Unbeknownst to him, Shi Yan suffers from uterine fibroids and breast fibroadenomas, though she never finds the courage to tell him. Instead, she tries to dissuade him by citing the mountain's dangers.

Li Mingyang, an ordinary office worker, enters a desolate world called Extreme City after scanning a QR code. This world is devoid of rules and laws; it is eerie, mysterious, and filled with violence. Only by constantly killing randomly appearing enforcers can one advance and survive. Faced with this cold-blooded world, the kind-hearted Li Mingyang undergoes extreme tests of humanity, friendship, and love. As he and his companions search for an escape, the controller behind Extreme City gradually emerges. This film is adapted from the popular Chinese animation Blood Code (血色苍穹)

How does a woman navigate her actions and emotions after committing murder?

In ancient times, a foolish artisan attempts to remake the statue of God of Wealth, only to have it stolen and exploited by a powerful and corrupt family. In modern time, female director DENG Mulan is besieged by both her exploitative family and her capitalist discipline. The two timelines are interwoven and mirrored through the medium of shadow puppetry, reflecting the collapse of faith and the search for self-redemption.

A love story about live streaming business.

A 32-episode romantic comedy set in a parallel world ruled by women, where traditional gender roles are inverted to expose their absurdities.

The film focuses on the stories of three children with autism and their families. When a husband, unable to bear the fate of his child's autism, chooses to jump from a building; when 'mom' becomes the only word in the universe of a child who cannot communicate with the outside world; when an autistic child, carefully cared for into adulthood, comforts their crying mother by saying, 'I will take care of mom'... These are not just stories—they are real-life glimpses into the lives of over ten million people with autism.