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Biographical film based on the life of Luo Yusheng, the master of modern Chinese folk art, the master of drum music, and the founder of Luo Pai Jingyun drum section.

Legend has it that the forest that makes noise in the morning is the home of monsters. When the demented old woman (played by Wang Yan) and the monsters were distressed about the forgotten way home, the old woman met university classmate Wang Xin (played by Xie Qiongnuan). She accidentally opened up the inextricable past, but also quietly unravels the mystery of the monsters' origins, and clues emerge as to the mysterious location of the forest.

She was taken in by a cultivation master after her family was slaughtered. Vowing unconditional loyalty to her newfound teacher and savior, she followers her every step into adulthood. Can such reverence save her when a demonic cultivator comes into the scene and shakes up the entire villa?

After a massive earthquake razed a Chinese city to the ground, thousands of parents who lost their children are encouraged to give a new birth so that they can move on with their lives. AFTER THE RAIN follows two of these families for over a decade. Haunted by fear, resentment, and unspeakable grief, the families find hope beyond their intergenerational trauma is hard to build.

An Anshan Story uses a real family's life as its backdrop. The director casts his grandpa, the revolutionaries of the left wing as the film's lead, retracing his family saga of post Chinese cultural revolution history.

Following an accident that the grandpa of the family slipped in a public bathhouse and couldn't be cured, an ordinary, modern Chinese family - composed of four generations from grandma to great granddaughter - struggles to confront their respective challenges at different life stages.

At night, the escort girl Muduo and the writer Mianshan stroll in the People's Park. Mianshan tells of a novel he dedicated to his fiancée, which takes place after the end of the world, where a boy travels through an abandoned aquarium to rescue a dying mermaid. As the story progresses, the park seems to gradually become isolated from the world, and Mianshan searches for an exit back to reality, while the clues seem to be hidden in the experiences that Muduo shares with his fiancée.

Bats have been living happily in the forest, until the day a huge shadow appears, changing the fates of both the flying mammals and humans…

When will the most shy child cry? There may be times when you don't want to cry, but there are times when you can cry out loudly. The story tells the story of a child never cry. One day, she cried. See this kid cry maybe you can smile. A child is born unwilling to cry. Every day to kindergarten, eat vegetables, other children crying, this kid does not cry. One day, the doctor came and the other children were crying. Because of the injection, the child was drawn blood, hold back tears; Until the end, the evening the child's mother finally finally came to pick her up from school, the child cried.

A Day of Trans is a groundbreaking, intimate look into the lives of four individuals – across three generations set against the backdrop of China's rise on the global stage. The short documentary film explores their lived experiences, professional career paths, community involvement, social barriers, and their unique approaches to life as transgender individuals across the generations.

Jin scowls into the camera when her sister – the filmmaker – asks about her earliest memories. No wonder: these memories are anything but pleasant. Jin was born in the 1990s, during China’s one-child policy. It was normal then for unborn girls to be aborted – right up to the last month of a pregnancy, because boys were preferred. Living babies were also ruthlessly dumped in the garbage, or in the woods. Jin survived for a week in a box on the streets.

The love story of four young people in Jingnian City, a scenic spot, goes in an unexpected direction due to an "epidemic"...

Liu Xiaoguang is 32 years old this year. He is an air-conditioning maintenance worker. He divorced his wife because he loves playing cards and drinking. He is stuck in danger during an air-conditioning repair every day. At the last moment of his life, he chooses to redeem himself or himself Freed, will he be reborn from the ashes?

After her college graduation, Yezi comes back home to spend her last summer vacation with her grandmother. The house is filled with grandma’s memories that gradually begin to take shape in reality. Her grandma slowly slips into the abyss of amnesia and time begins to lose meaning. Haunted by those memories, Yezi finds herself wandering among fragments of her family history.

She who plays all day long, either being lazy or stealing food, it is impossible to practice well... And then she who seems to be strict, but is, in fact, gentle and pampered. Together, these two live a happy life.

With the following motivation: Every brick in the great wall of China was carried up by a man. More than 800,000 men, for more than 20 years. As we follow the reconstruction of a very small part of that old wall, we feel the dimension and Sisyphean effort carried out almost 2000 years ago. At the same time, this small part of the wall portrays the different social classes and transformations of modern China. A society that moves from the collective ideals to the personal capitalist aspirations of individuals.

24 follows the journey of a deceased sound recordist through twenty-four diverse environments after his death. These include a forest, a theatre, a cinema, a temple, a cemetery, a truck carrying migrant workers, an apartment bathroom – and the set of a gay pornographic film.

Zhusheng's father suddenly died under the watchful eyes of the old dog. The dog witnessed the whole process of Luo's arrangement of his father's funeral. When Luo is embalming his father's body, outside in the forest comes a gunshot. As the forest ranger, Luo has to put down his father's body and patrol the forest. During the night, Luo sits alone on top of the hill, and he can't help crying bitterly. On their way home, Luo and the old dog rescue a lamb that has almost been eaten by a wolf. Luo takes the injured lamb home, give it herbal medicine, and the lamb gradually recovers. Luo continues to handle his father's funeral affairs in an orderly way. He digs the grave, prepares a hearth, makes dough figures, and the coffin. He follows the ancient rituals handed down from generation to generation in every process. At this moment, the dog, his companion, smells danger outside the door. The wolf is approaching…

It tells the story of the abandoned child Xiao Yunjie (nicknamed Dwarf), living in a mountain village with his grandmother and two half-sisters. In a village where there are no young people, the 12-year-old Xiao Yunjie not only has to study hard, but also bears heavy housework.

An animation short full of plot twists.

A once-prosperous coal mining town is now in decline, as Chinese economic policy has pivoted away from coal. Through the director’s own family, the film depicts the source of life—mined from the darkness of 800 meters underground—that has given, as well as taken away from them.

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia plant thousands of mu of ammodendron and euphratica to fight against expanding deserts.

Haohao and Zhouzhou, two sisters aged five and eight, spend most of their days at an electronics market in Shenzhen. A year earlier, as new immigrants to the city, their parents opened a shop on the market’s ninth floor. The girls’ gaze turns the soulless world of electronics into a universe full of monsters and ghost stories that make life more magical.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of the establishment of the West Factory, a large number of forces were incorporated to serve it. The Hu family of Shaanxi was also included. Escort Master Mu was unwilling to succumb to the West Factory, but he knew too many secrets, and Hu killed Mu.The youngest son Mu Xiaobai stabbed Hu's eyes and finally escaped.

After six years of being ordered to go undercover in a gang, Xing Jiangfeng is tired of his undercover life of crisis and dreams of finding his true self. A conspiracy for power leads Xing Jiangfeng into a death trap, and his recovery becomes a moot point.

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a new generation of the country's youth. Puning City in Guangdong Province is known within China as the 'Cultural Hometown' of Chaoshan, with the folk dance Yingge being one of its most famous customs. Yingge, meaning "Hero's Hymn", combines Nanquan routines and opera acting skills, and is a vibrant and upbeat performance in which dancers don intricate costumes and facial makeup, and play the role of the heroes in Water Margin《水浒传》- an ancient Chinese novel about brotherhood.

In the summer of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Qin Huai, who will soon be 10 years old, accidentally learns that his good friend Xiaohe's father is seriously ill but can't afford the treatment. To help his good friend, Qinhuai and Xiaohe embark on a journey of growth together. However, things are developing in an unexpected way.

The newest instalment in a series set in a small village in a mountainous region in China. In the winter marking ten years since the director began filming, she tries to get a new building constructed in the village. The girls, who had thus far been the subjects of her films, take up the camera themselves, and begin recording scenes of the village.

On his way to school, the boy finds a bill. The classmates want him to help buy things, out of vanity he agreed. After school they went to the shop, the shopkeeper told him that this note is fake.

A woman attempts to attend an academy but instead falls in love.

The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.

Dezico sets out to sea on an adventure with his magical pet, Bean. The pair get separated in the dangerous ocean. While looking for Bean, Dezico has to face many difficulties on his own. Drifting along, he unexpectedly meets Chief Azure, a girl who's searching for the Heart of the Ocean. Together, they go on a fantastic adventure to the Forgetful Island where they find Wheeler, Azure's missing younger brother. In the end, Dezico reunites with Bean and does a lot of growing up along the way.

An old coffin painter, whose son was murdered, waits for the killer to leave prison. A mother and her daughter move to his neighborhood, which changes him. Will he still want vengeance?

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a new generation of the country's youth. Its first episode, Young Masters: Bajiquan, spotlights Wu Hao (吴昊), a young man in his twenties from Hebei province who is a stalwart practitioner of Bajiquan—a traditional Chinese fighting style known for its graceful stillness and sudden moments of targeted and ferocious violence. Director Haonan Shen traveled to the Mengcun Bajiquan International Training Center to profile Wu Hao whose paternal ancestor Wu Zhong (1712–1802) was the first recorded Bajiquan teacher. In this evocative portrait of a young man’s passion for sharing his family’s rich heritage, we get up close and personal with the violent elbow strikes, staff jabs, fierce rising and firm falling stances that characterize the martial art.

A short film based on a combination of the director’s personal experience and social reality. It tells the story of Li Yun, a middle school girl who seems to be strong and has no weakness. When “menarche” comes, this secret becomes a huge test for her. Her good friend Chen Xue keeps this secret and helps Li Yun in her transition into adulthood.

At the beginning of 2020, the new corona virus epidemic broke out. On January 23, Wuhan city went into a lockdown. 9 million people in Wuhan, together with front-line personnel from medical systems and other industries across the country, started the fight against the corona virus in Wuhan! The content of "Wuhan Day and Night" comes from the thousands of hours of material that more than 30 local photographers in Wuhan have been shooting for several months on the front line of the fight against the epidemic since the beginning of the epidemic. The film takes the medical staff and patients in the intensive care unit of the hospital as the main line, and the volunteers who transport pregnant women late at night as the auxiliary line, showing the touching stories of fighting against the epidemic.

After the outbreak of the war with Japan, all Beijing universities were closed or bombed. A group of young students, aged 18 or 19, set off in a hurry, moving south on foot, crossing Xiangqian and Yunnan, and eventually forming a temporary university on the Kunming plateau - the Southwest Union University, a joint venture between Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai. They crossed a city to listen to the "best Chinese language class ever", to listen to Toselli's "Serenade", and to join the Flying Tigers. For these "post-90s" seniors, who are now in their nineties, SWU is not a dusty piece of history, but a memory of youth that is still as fresh as ever. Yang Zhenning, Xu Yuanchong, Pan Jiluan, Yang Coix, Wang Xiji and Ma Zhitu - 16 students of the University with an average age of over 96 years old are cast together to take you back to a time when war was raging and stars were shining.

Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula.