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Through the span of a taxi ride in Singapore, an immigrant mother reconciles with her son on their notion of home.

In the era of China’s big famine, a maiden called Flower gets sick due to long-term malnutrition. In order to have her recovered, her father steals some millet to make a bowl of rice. Restored to health, Flower tells how she had the rice. An official heard about it and Flower’s father is immediately arrested. Feeling guilty and heart-broken, she believes that her words have killed her father.

Late Summer captures a centuries-old Beijing theatre in its incarnation as a modern-day transient space.

A fable of fear and rebirth that unfolds through a man’s pursuit of a mysterious white bird, Valley of White Birds utilizes a hypnotic, engrossing style of animation to encounter the magic that exists all around.

In a small canal town, a rapist lurks in the shadows. A schoolgirl, a young woman and a young couple, all seem unable to cope with both the visible and the hidden dangers they all face from their morally corrupted compatriots.

Lei Suyun, the directors grandmother, vaguely remembers she was a great person. She was the director of the bureau of finance, NPC member. People used to call her Mrs. Lei. Now Lei Suyun doesn't remember things, she laments the passing of time. Her once brilliant achievements are gone with her memory.

A Chinese rural girl Chun Hua is forced by her family to marry a man she never met before. After influencing by her cousin -Tong, a modern city girl, she decides to change her life.

Li is over 70 years old, he sits in front of his window in the afternoon every day and smokes the cigarette to pass the time. The sound of water drops in the kitchen, two pigeons are roosting on roof of the opposite building, and the sunshine comes into the room, which make Li feel alive. His emotions usually could be fluctuated with the plot of the TV programmes, because he even could find out his own fitful memories from it. One was is the whole family, another one also is the whole family. During worshipping of the ancestors, he listened to his mother's arrangements and felt sincere concern from his brother. However, happy time was so short. After he returned to his rental place, the only thing that he can do is to look at the dream which was outlined in the New Year's Gala, and which gradually away from his dream. Everything just was the same as the past in this new year, he was still feel so lonely.

Short film by Yang Bo.

Since 2010 WEI Xiaobo has been documenting his and his girlfriend’s lives and produced a series of films titled ‘The Days’. This film focuses on the happenings between 2013 and 2017, when the two get married and encounter some new problems.

Newly arrived in New York City's Chinatown, a young singer’s vision of opportunity collides with a brutal world.

This experimental film manages to capture the relationship between man and nature without using words. We witness the painstaking activity of a fisherman in a Chinese village. Spring has arrived after a long winter, and it’s time to get the fishing boat ready for use. The work looks simple enough—making holes in the ice and scraping away thick layers of snow—but it’s vitally important, literally a matter of survival, to do it right.

The Boss is the Campus Belle is a torturously romantic story in which an overbearing chairman is transported to a different time and space by a pocket watch and gets to meet a sweet and lovable girl. A romance that transcends time and space soon ensues.

Two countries, eight hundred and ninety kilometers apart, with different civilizations, and a troubled girl is looking for her long lost father from Tunisia to China. It's all about a mysterious and splendid dream, a conviction that a girl would give whatever she'd get, and a journey full of charms and suspense.

This film documents the final conversation between director Hao Jian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

Two boys fall in love during Summer.

INNER EAR INFLAMMATION can be regarded as the answer to the title of my first music documentary, ARE WE REALLY SO FAR FROM THE MADHOUSE? Both films were shot on the spur of the moment; the difference between the two is that ARE WE REALLY SO FAR FROM THE MADHOUSE? was made specifically for Yang Haisong, whose music I had regrettably never used even though he had suggested it many times, while INNER EAR INFLAMMATION is 100% ruthless contraband. The shooting and production were completed in a very short period of time, but this doesn't mean it was sloppily done. In fact, INNER EAR INFLAMMATION is by far the least regrettable of all of my works to date, including the feature films. -Li Hongqi

Yike Su failed in the latest National College Entrance Examination. While his mother tried hard to push him back to school for an extra year, his granduncle moved in since he had nowhere to...

Su has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where his wife and children still live. He isn't exactly welcomed back with open arms.

In a cold mountain village in northeastern China,when a peasant gets sick they invite the local shaman to do trance healing. In the village there is Shaman XU, a renowned shaman in the area who is almost 70-year-old. He had been a teacher in his youth and an accountant for a factory production team. In his later age, serving as a spirit medium became his profession. He beats his donkey-hide drum and sings ancient melodies, inviting all kind of spirits to come.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We keep performing ourselves hard. Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us. Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments. We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space.

"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is a story about two sisters in a small Chinese city. The main character struggles with guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder and continues to see her sister in her daily life as if her little sister was still alive. The film has won the awards for Best Short Film from Stingray International Film Festival (France), Best International Short Film from Rohip International Film Festival (India), and Best Thriller from SpringTime International Film Festival in 2023 (India).

Original version of Hu Jie's film The Vast Suffering (辽阔之痛).

Li Yun Feng, a rich second-generation Sunshine and a good-natured senior student, Zhou Yu Ben, is a good brother, but he likes Liu Xi Qi, a temperamental class flower. In order to win the good feelings of Liu Si Qi, the two decided to compete fairly. The skill attributes of the two people are completely different. One is as hot as fire, one is as deep as water and evenly matched. However, Li Yun Feng’s sudden departure from the country made this competition unfair, so they set an agreement...

The world is full of flaws; life is far-from-perfect. It is all the more challenging for people with disabilities. Joanna and King are facing their darkness, as they are losing their eyesight bit by bit. Baobao is hearing-impaired since birth, she cannot communicate with the others but her greatest desire is to speak and express herself. Hazel has cerebral palsy and cannot walk; even though wheelchair can replace her legs, she is fed up with the prolonged pain. Life is strenuous, but Joanna, King, Baobao and Hazel rediscovered the passion for life when they embarked on a journey to the theatre stage, making the impossible possible. Light Up is a documentary about the struggle of the four protagonists against their personal restraints in the Hand in Hand Capable Theatre, witnessing how they made their way to the stage after difficult but ultimately positive training and rehearsals.

Off Takes consists of discarded images from Jingban Hao's extensive Beijing Ballroom Project (2012-2016), in which the artist explores the individual memories and personal stories of ballroom dancers.

They are both high school friends who are like Tom and Jerry. Constantly teasing each other. As time goes by they become closer and hang out more often until classmates start spreading the rumor that both are gay together. Qiao Ke is a person who can't handle bullying by others and rumors and thus stops talking to Yunan.

Accordion Class explores the under-examined history of the accordion and its legacy in China, as the only permitted western instrument during the cultural revolution. Since then, the accordion’s popularity and influence has risen and fallen over half a century. Looking at accordion classes and competition today, the film presents how the instrument is taught, performed and received by a younger generation in the city of Changsha.

As a man fights to save his relationship, he discovers that being good is simply not enough.

Liu Shidong is a young man set adrift after his father's death. He meets Wang Yuzi, a melancholy and introverted girl who pursues him, but he spurns her. Soon, he meets a bright and extroverted girl named Yao Ye; they live together for a month, then go their separate ways. Having known love, Liu Shidong goes into business and tries to make his way in the adult world.

The frustrated painter decided to burn his failed paintings. Unexpectedly, when the paintings burned down, they turned into paper cranes and returned to his memory. As memories shuttled, the painter wanted to recover the waste paper again, but it was too late.