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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.

"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.

A documentary that explores the relationship between three families in Suzhou and their private gardens. Each family invested considerably in creating serene and classic gardens, seeking ancestral tranquility. However, they face challenges when trying to maintain a poetic relationship between people and their gardens in an ever-changing modern world.

Huilin confides in a Guan Gong statue daily, sharing life's ups and downs. However, over-fertilization leads to the withering of her cherished grapevine. With her husband's recent passing, his approaching birthday, and subtle life changes, she stands at a pivotal moment.

Kalibnur has many identities, my sister-in-law is just one of them. Kalibnur has many stories, and she writes letters to herself telling these stories.

In an accident, Lin Muer dies, and Lin Mu Yu accidentally finds her registration form for a speech contest. She aspires to be as confident as her sister, so she decides to enter the contest.

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.

The fantastic and romantic story of a boy from the rooftops and a girl from the basement.

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？

On the brink of a storm, Lin Lan finds a phone containing disturbing footage tied to three dangerous fugitives. When they track her down, Lin Lan and her husband face a life-threatening ordeal that tests their bond.

Two waiters in a Shanghai restaurant try to please a rich guest only to find out that he is not who he seems.

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.

The easternmost fishing town in China sits on the cusp of radical change, as this quietly devastating film details. Once a major hub for the Chinese fishing industry, Stone Town is facing seismic change. With its economic bedrock at risk, the small, secluded town is turning towards tourism as a way to support its local population. Jing Guo and Dingding Ke’s film balances intimate portraits of the townsfolk, whose lives are impacted by the coming change, with a wider perspective on the modernisation project driven by Xi Jinping’s government. The filmmakers capture the anxiety, sorrow and confusion of the people, in tandem with a perspective on a burgeoning environmental crisis, the ramifications of political turbulence and injustice at the way rapid modernisation impacts everyday lives. Stone Town is a compelling portrait of a world where feelings of despair and frustration are drowned by late-night drinks and non-stop karaoke singing in dingy bars.

During an unexpected air-raid lockdown in the 1940s, an accountant and a university teacher meet, and quickly fall in love. Then, unexpectedly, their connection was as momentary as the lockdown.

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…

Bai, a gay girl, discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant. She decides to hide this from her girlfriend, Chuan. Their tragedy unravels soon after.

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.

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.

Yongzhonglamu decided to fulfill her 96-year-old mother's wish to pass on their love to the children with her own hands and in her own way. With her hard work and the inherited skills, she saved enough money to change phones and complete the repair of the water mill, sending love to the children in this way.

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.

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.

On October 23, China's new national leader was born in Beijing, and the quarantine and lockdown management of the community epidemic prevention and control was still being implemented in remote Zizhong county. On that day, the single deaf woman who took care of her grandmother alone, with the help of the divorced male security guard, returned to the theatrical troupe to complete the rehearsal of the overseas performance.

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

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

This film tells the story of Liu Yifan, a Yao student on the China-Vietnam border in Yunnan, and Yang Yankai, a Hani student, before and after the relaxation of the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control.

Departing from personal friendship and reflection, this video letter examines the visual complexity and paradoxicality of atomic bomb imagery in China. From 1960s’ military documentary to current days’ fictions with CG effects, a visual trope of the collective “People’s Bomb” was orchestrated against the imperial evil and the wild nature of the gobi desert. Living in the Anthropocene ecological crisis, in nuclearity we may find visceral connections, endurance, disenchantment of and re-politicization of the image.

A young woman in love embarks on a dangerous journey to find a man she met on the internet and doesn't know much about. Her stubbornness goes so far that the director is forced to stop her. The film thus opens up questions about the author's responsibility for the subjects she is following in documentary filmmaking.

How to say "I love you" if it was separated from language?

Xiao Feng despised her backward hometown and her parents and did not want to stay at home for a moment

5639/5640 Green Leather Slow Train, the "mountain bus", has maintained low fares during more than 20 years of operation. You can get a rare income in remote mountainous areas.\r This film reflects the humanistic care of Train 5639 by showing the deep friendship between Wu Wenzhen and other vegetable farmers and the people and things on Train 5639.\r This trip The train serves as a bridge for the Miao villagers to communicate with the outside world, and it carries the desire of the mountain villagers to live a happy life. It is not the speed that is slow, but the patience to keep pace with the low- and middle-income people.

Yang, an underground killer with something on his mind worry, came to the fantasy underground billiard hall

How should I love you, my child? This story is a mother’s agonizing journey of parenting. Wu Jun, a mother in her 50s, has been in emotional turbulence for over a decade. In 2004, Quanquan, her then-16-year-old daughter, suddenly jumped to her death. Unexpectedly, Quanquan’s last words had nothing to do with her parents. The mother was filled with agony and bewilderment, questioing what she had done wrong, and her beloved husband, unable to bear the weight of the loss, moved away from Hangzhou. To start anew, Wu raised another girl, Tingting. Amid intense education competition, she racks her brains to pave the way for Tingting’s better future. However, the girl became rather difficult after entering puberty. Why is parent-child relationship so challenging? How should a mother face her own life? By the beautiful West Lake, Wu starts to read her late daughter’s favorite fable, ROOSTER THE GOLDEN COMB – Fate is as cunning as the fox in the story…

A hand drawn animation with 1352 paintings, every single one is a hymn to my body, which is mine, but not all mine. It belongs to everyone who has touched it, like a memory pillow, always remembering the marks left by the last person, while slowly rebounding and forgetting.

In China, beekeeping is an ancient and traditional profession. Every spring, beekeepers migrate huge distances with their bees in search of the best nectar to harvest the highest quality honey. Relying on the changing seasons and fluctuating temperatures, making a living is becoming increasingly difficult in this traditional industry. Flower Chasers follows the journey of young beekeeper Xiaolong and his family as they travel across China in search of flowers and honey, witnessing the precarious living conditions beekeepers face, along with the threat of an ecological crisis.

Deep in the snowy ridge, the young siblings who lost their parents were attacked by wild wolves. Snow monkey suddenly appeared to save the two, but took the younger brother away! The sister pursued them all the way. After facing all kinds of difficulties and dangers for seven years, she has become a huntress.

Piano teacher Hua Yuezhen has a strong personality and strained family relationships. After suffering a stroke, she wants to reunite with her family, but her daughter wants to take her grandchildren to live in Shanghai, and her husband divorced him a long time ago. In the face of the sudden change in her life, she wants to apologize to her family, but she has never been able to speak.

On the second day after the city’s central data center unexpectedly crashes and reboots, the server keeper meets the cloud system in a disordered digital world where they become a passenger and a woman who is a retired taxi driver. They drive through the city, get lost, and try to locate themselves. Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Group

A factory worker longing for hope in his impoverished life and trying to liberate himself from his unpromising future. A melancholic tale of modernity and the decay of liberty.

An advertisement celebrating Songmont's tenth anniversary in 2023.

When Manni turns off her camera, how would they face each other towards their intertwined past? This 14-minute docu-drama narrates lost and reconnection among two individuals.

This story is about a person who is in debt When he accidentally killed a rich man It was filmed about what will happen next. Because Wan Ying has lost money while playing shares and is in debt From his schoolmate during an emergency While trying to borrow money, he overreached and pushed himself off the cliff When he went to the rich man's house to pick up valuable items while he was acting Due to Yuan Thein's (50) attraction, he could not leave the rich man's house I got greedy and went on. Will he be able to escape the attraction of these possessions... Will you be able to get away from making mistakes?

Li Wei introduced his old classmate Shanshan to become an Internet celebrity in Jiang Zishuai's company. They lacked funds to purchase equipment, and several people began to think of solutions together. In the process, the relationship between the three people changed.

There was an outrageous news story in this city where a bus was driving on the wrong side of the road. But no one was paying attention ...... So we raised our cameras, brought our microphones, and wandered the streets for random interviews. Unconsciously, we found that truth and fiction, history and reality began to intertwine, and in memory, lies began to spread like a virus, and slowly we discovered the disconnect between the self and the other, as well as the funny thing about life.

An astronaut accidentally lands on the moon and witnesses Armageddon.