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Shixue back to 9th Chemi, this is a three-line factory. For her, the factory is like her Disneyland, and the theme of this Disney is socialist industrialization. This Disney is about to disappear. What will be left?

Inspired by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poem, space that continues to the mountain strings an elastic bond between objects, providing viewers with a non-linguistic poetic visual experience.

A beer drinking party is organized by the owner of a paper mill “Fat man” and his employee “Blurred”, in order to celebrate the release of “Bald head” from prison. An unexpected event forces “Fat man” and “Bald head” to start a search for “a blurred good place”, with a river and trees…

Ziyue is cared for by her sisters in every possible way. Being used to being protected, she has repeatedly failed the exams. In the fourth elf exam, she met the mysterious elf Hei Linglong. The two unintentionally opened the seal of the Queen of Nightmare and plunged Rainbow City into crisis. Among them, in the end, through their own efforts, they finally won everyone's approval.

In 2012, after my grandfather passed away, my grandmother left the deserted village where she had lived for nearly half a century and moved to a strange county town. The next year, she was shocked to hear that her homeland would be leveled within two days - her "old world" was thus completely destroyed. After that, she spent a long time alone, often accompanied by her sick second daughter, and more often by an old TV and a deck of cards. When the wind blows, she dreams of the sunset, sheep, green grass, and curling smoke in her hometown. Every year, I go back with a camera to record her homesickness that has nowhere to go, listen to her reminiscences, and also take pictures of my childhood hometown that has also disappeared.

Driven by jealousy, the husband administered a memory-developing elixir to his wife. In his attempt to erase the potential rival for her affections, he inadvertently obliterated all of her memories of him as well.

In 1984, agricultural researcher Zhao Ersheng and his team arrive in Hainan, hoping to develop China’s first hybrid millet. Despite limited resources and repeated failures, Zhao persists. He pioneers a two-line hybrid method based on light and temperature sensitivity, overcoming major scientific hurdles. In 2000, after years of dedication, his team successfully breeds “Zhang Hybrid Millet No. 1,” marking a breakthrough in China’s millet breeding history.

For the sake of friendship, brave raiders Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang take a daring quest in the Long Ling Grotto. With perils at every corner, will they succeed?

There is a village with a clear founding date: 1953. Its residents share a common identity: they are all leprosy patients. This village was built for the isolation of leprosy patients, backed by deep mountains and facing the Pian River. How did they experience a life of isolation from the world for half a century since they entered the hospital in their teens? Many people grew up with the village and left it one after another. Years later, their descendants continued to live here, no different from thousands of other villages. The burial of the last batch of elderly residents marked the rebirth of the village.

One early morning in November 2022, Guangzhou announced the unblocking of the east and west corners of Haizhu District, and the middle blocked area was surrounded by water-filled barriers and tin walls overnight - which was called "one district, two regulations" by citizens. Hanlu, who lived in west Haizhu District, asked her friends if they needed her supplies before she leaving Guangzhou, and Wan Qing, who lived in middle Haizhu, claimed some of the ingredients. The two made an appointment to meet at the water-filled barriers at the blocked border and filmed along the way. After the editing of their own perspectives, they combined them to form this two-screen video.

Lei Lei is a female experimental artist. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she visited a sperm bank in order to select the ideal sperm for her IVF baby. This film is about her life in the past two years.

Jinshan Temple is the only Buddhist temple built on water in China, which dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), almost a thousand years in the past. Observant Buddhist believers often converge here to perform a rite known as "fangsheng", or "life release", which refers to the practice of saving animals from captivity and releasing them into the water. The film tries to form a slice of the history of this eternal artificial architecture through ecology, geography and folklore. A Gopro camera was tied to a turtle that was released in the river to inspect the underwater space of the temple.

This tells the real life stories of four queer Hong Kong (trans)migrants born in the 1980s, for whom the experience of immigration and diaspora is intertwined with childhood memories of Hong Kong under the no longer existing British colonial rule. This reconstructs their nostalgic homes in virtual reality (VR), that draws attention to diasporic narratives and cultural archives through the process of cognitively metaphorical ‘returns’.

This film tells the story of an adoption interview held in an orphanage. The interviewers were children who were about to be adopted. In order to pass this interview, many couples prepared what they wanted to give the child. The best thing. All parents in this world are imperfect, and no pair of parents can be perfectly prepared in advance. The relationship between parents and children is created.

This film is about the story of an old man who insistently took care of his wife, a paralytic old woman. As her illness increasingly aggravated, finally she couldn’t walk at all. One day, the old woman saw a butterfly flying over their yard. She yearned for freedom while she was helpless. The old man found that and in order to make his wife happy, he decided to make a butterfly shaped kite and fly the kite with her in a special way. This film is full of warmth and hope for all those who yearn for freedom.

Numerous planes of different sizes and shapes make up the three dimensional system. Increase and decrease of the number of planes are used to describe the physical change of the human body. When there are so few planes, the boundary between a person and a slice of plane becomes thin. Revolving between the morbid loner and the periodic insanity of the neighbor, the story reveals itself in reality and in abstract.

This film documents the real-life situations of live-streaming influencers, fans, and practitioners on Kuaishou in Guangzhou, China, in 2022.

As the first narrative film, DOKU the Self, which premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale, introduces six virtual reincarnations of LuYang. Reminiscent of superheroes, gaming and anime characters, as well as deities and demons, these avatars embody different aspects of LuYang’s self. At the same time, each represents one of the six realms of samsara—the karmic wheel of life—and refers to the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In LuYang’s work, Samsara takes on different forms: virtual landscapes that resemble worlds of experience in video games, or a kind of gigantic reincarnation roulette that can be controlled by the player with a video game console.

Wenjia Shou studied animation at China Academy of Art. In 2021, she directed her first film Existence, which was also her graduation film.

This Super 8 film captures the first sunshine after the rain, the reflection of bamboo in the water, and the dance of shadows of the bamboo in the wind. There seems to be an inherent mysterious connection between wind, water, sunlight, and bamboo shadows. Bamboo is one of the symbols of ancient Chinese culture. There are many traditional paintings about bamboo. This film uses Super 8mm film to shoot bamboo, looking at "Bamboo" with a contemporary eye and medium. It seems to be a dynamic Chinese ink sketch on film, with a poetic meaning. Shot and edited by Gao Wei on her rooftop garden. She plants bamboo by herself.

“It’s nothing” Said Du. Seems like there is no big difference between them, But Du decided to leave Chengdu after two month.

A woman scrutinizes her reflection where the self and the other get into a surreal battle. Meanwhile, her desires become an alien luring her to the outside world.

A girl returns to her native village in Tibet, where a team of doctors treats the condition she has had since birth. She recovers in her grandfather's house and makes a new, special friend there.

In order to finish her homework, the girl decided to shoot a fake documentary. In the process, she came closer to her grandmother's world and found herself.

A collision without warning, a relationship that pulls and pulls on each other. In this relationship, there are careful trials, mimicry, close proximity, unexpected betrayal... And when the relationship turns into a violent conquest of who wins and who loses, maybe you should be brave enough to end the relationship and say "I HATE YOU!" to that "he".

After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, I reached out for a Ukrainian who studies in Beijing. Born in Russia, his father was Russian and his mother is Ukrainian. As the war escalates, his hometown was also bombarded, and his family breaks apart while his mom seeks for asylum in Bulgaria and his stepdad staying at home. He is about to leave China, feeling lost about his next destination. Gradually Mark and I have more resonance. And the pain caused by war started to strike me too.

By chance, Qi'an attended a training camp based on the pyramid selling model, in which she experienced three-day brainwashing, telling her that she could get a healthy life through their products. She pretended to be deceived, so as to become one of them to observe the interaction between the deceiver and the deceived from the perspective of a bystander.

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks involved in working abroad and the traps she has fallen into.

Mr. Guan is a “grassroots director” who shoots short videos to sell products in Yiwu. “Besides showing you the source of the products, I will also introduce you to the spiritual world of the small characters in China through the products,” he said. Unlike the mainstream model and short-video shooting style of “9.9 yuan, free postage” in Yiwu, he had a dream of becoming “Stephen Chow of Tik Tok in China”. He was determined to show the spiritual world of the small characters in China through short videos. However, as time went on, his ideal blueprint became elusive after the invasion of capitalists. Being lost, he tried to find another way out. To pursue a spiritual world or monetize traffic and gain wealth, which will be his next step?

Because it was born with a heart that changes color, it had to wear clothes to hide that colorful heart. It wasn't until one day, when it met someone similar to it, that it realized that it wasn't alone. So it decided to show its truest self on an important day.

A flower dreams, a room appears, a sun is ticking, a tree says to the flower: "You are in a video game? Wait for the dream to end."

Unremarkable Zhou is a condensed version of the original music comedy film exploring Zhou Ning’s 2022 life under COVID lockdown in China. Blending nine songs with visual storytelling, it distills bittersweet, intimate, and absurd moments into a therapeutic and humorously introspective experience.

This has always been just your one-sided wish.

Looking back at the fear and isolation that began in 2020, bodies were absent, scenes were distorted, and individuals were scattered in nameless places on the map. 　　Students, teachers, freelancers, bookstore clerks, social workers, farmers, retirees... they are participants in the Civil Memory Project, witnesses to the epidemic, and survivors of history's ups and downs. 5, 10, 20 people... they gather online, from individual witnesses to rebuilding the collective. From returning to the ‘scene of the virus’ to learning to co-exist with the ‘New Crown’, they attempted to transform the memories and experiences of ordinary individuals into an expression and response to the times.