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A look at the life of Ange Li, a former Chinese national volleyball coach and other seniors enjoying life in their golden years, demonstrating that one is never too old to achieve new goals.

This film is about birds and dreams. Birds dream is shot using stop-motion technique, and it's 'actors' are bird models handcrafted by the artist. Its concept derives from the artist own live performance the sparrow and the raven (2012), which had been performed both nationally and internationally.

Cling and I are friends. Both of us are lesbian. Being frustrated in lesbian relationships, we decided to get married with men. However, we couldn't make love with men at all. Eventually, I got divorced. Cling still struggles about continuing her marriage. Both of us are trying to gure out what happiness is.

A dark comedy about a married man who is having an affair with a student. Together, they decide to kill his wife. However, the student and his wife have an homosexual love.

In China, there lives more than 21 million gay men, and about 65% of them choose to marry ordinary women, in order to conceal their sex orientation, because of the family traditions, social pressure and other reasons they are facing. In order to win the custody of her 7-year-old son Tong in court, Lisa, a woman whose husband is actually a gay man, decided to gather evidence of her husband's infidelity with another man. Though she tried everything she could to keep her son from this family crisis, Lisa found the surprising fact that Tong knew everything...

Let us dive deep into the infinite water of the beautiful universe, and feel the heartbeat of life itself resonating through the city, celebrating its inhabitants.

Through interviews with several representatives of Beijing and Shanghai LGBT groups and personal testimonies, a context is described that, although not as repressive as one might think, is marked by ignorance, tradition, prejudice, the indifference of society, censorship and lack of sex education, among other aspects. In the hope of changing their sexual orientation, some people go through the conversion therapies. The documentary gives voice to a minority group in search of recognition of their rights and their freedom.

A monkey is kept in a cage by her master. She can’t speak, but we can understand her wailing. She won’t resist. She just swings her body in the cage so that she seems to have something to do. And almost like for us, every day and night for her becomes one long day from birth to death.

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.

The film documents a trip that the filmmaker took with her parents. Both in their sixties, they had lived their lives in rural areas and never seen the sea. Thanks to the film, she had the opportunity to take her parents to the seaside. She found the island closest to home, Weizhou Island, and asked a photographer to film this trip. Different layers of reality — her parent’s fear of modern society, the daughter’s doubt about her own motivations, and the photographer’s change from an impartial documentarian to an emotional participant — emerged together. In the course of this short trip, the filmmaker started to reflect on art, family, and self, all through the recorded images.

On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.

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

The first ever Mr. Gay China Pageant. The event was canceled by the police just hours before the start, causing a huge media storm both in - and outside of China.

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.

We are born naked the rest is drag: five people explore their identities and define themselves through clothes and makeup. They perform in the urban context because that is the space where their sexual identities were created, then imposed.

A short film about the relationship between a mother and her lesbian daughter and how they deal with it in Singapore, a country with its roots very much set within traditional Asian values.

In the summer afternoon, the story of two boys accompanying each other.

University teacher Gaoyang Chen and her husband Ziren Zhou lived in a respectful relationship. Faced by his wife's inexplicable indifference, Zhou worked hard to improve their relationship, but he could get it. Until one day that Zhou unexpectedly found out that his wife and his same-sex partner had married in a foreign country years ago. A conflict between three people while two families then broke out.

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

Some of the events themselves are forgotten, and they are excluded from copyright, and they are the co-creation and the word-of-mouth of people in a certain region. These events, which have little value but are attached to the landscape and time and space, should have a reserved meaning. When the scene of the event is gradually changing, will the event itself die? As an individual, I may be able to record something.

It's the best vending machine ever! Insert to NTD, choose your manpower, and he/she will pop out and do anything for you! 2026, financial crisis crashes global economy; the government introduces the "Manpower Vending" policy. Freshly graduated, Wei-De becomes a cheap labor who waits for a coin in the machine.

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

The money worshipper Wan Jincheng runs a mysterious master house in Las Vegas. Legend has it that he possesses the psychic scepter of the Indian family from ancient times and has the ability to control the heart. Financial giant Shang Guanjing found Wan Jincheng and entrusted him to rescue Shen Xiaoyu, a daughter of the upstart who was under house arrest by the upstart Dong Geqiu. After Wan Jincheng rescued Shen Xiaoyu, he found that this rich lady was actually a wonderful girl and suffered from severe difficulty in choosing. The two accidentally triggered the soul scepter in the process of entanglement to lead to soul exchange.

The filmmaker spent years in a Chinese village to record daily life’s every detail. He drank many a glass with the villagers and observed them for so long that he started to recognize their repeating patterns of behavior. That is why there is no end to this tale.

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

Nicknamed "Mayor of the Night Market", Ninth Uncle has been a temporary worker managing the night market for over 30 years. Despite of his success in the night market, his family life appears quite the opposite. Almost 70 years old now, he continues his life in the night market. As the night falls every evening, Zhong Shan Road and its hundred years of history are now facing reconstruction and the night market full of yummy food venders [sic] is soon to be gone. Ninth Uncle helplessly watches the empire he worked his whole life for slowly fall apart.

The story of Lao Meng, an old man with the dream of building a world peace village.

In the summer of 2017, two Chinese filmmakers start their journey with four mobile phones, and they go through 16 countries from France to Damascus. As far as their concerned, they are trying to present the current situation of refugees’ life in the “post-refugee era” in Syria. It gives rise to reflection to the right and wrong in the “refugee crisis.” It is also lead people to find out a different Syria and a different Muslim World.

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.

Xun, a platoon leader in the Army. On the eve of his discharge, one of his soldiers, Xiao-C, chooses the most brutal way to accuse his abuser. In these barbaric barracks, to endure violence is the law of survival for every recruit. Somehow violence, unconsciously has become unspoken legacy between seniors.