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Yang JiaZhi and her husband, Chen Chen, find themselves in the suburbs by the lake for a date. It is the same place as their first date, which took place eight years earlier, and within the confines of which precious memories are enshrined.

Ahman, a Buddhist laywoman in a serene temple, practices collecting moonlight for spiritual cultivation. After refusing to share her gift with a newcomer, she loses her powers. Only when she spreads moonlight over a river for others do her abilities return.

A failed product copywriter (Drago Lazetich) with an alcohol dependency crosses paths with a mysterious stranger (Émilie Ohana) on a personal mission, and together, they embark on an unforgettable adventure across the neon-lit Shanghai.

A personal, reflexive film that follows a daughter of Chinese immigrants who yearns to understand her transoceanic family’s expressions of grief. During a summer visit to the home her parents left behind in Beijing, China, she tries to learn what they never taught her: how to navigate a heat wave, how to cook watermelon, and how to say goodbye.

A poetic film titled "The Nearest Distance," filmed over three years and spanning thousands of miles, captures the essence of love in its portrayal. The closest distance is where love resides. Through dreamlike scenes and genuine emotions, the film narrates the story of a chance encounter between a girl from the bamboo sea and a city beauty, whose hearts connect instantly. It moves viewers to tears and awakens their souls. Throughout the journey, the director revisits childhood memories and quests tirelessly, braving numerous obstacles and challenges. Life is a convergence of endless storms and boundless beauty, where the weak find strength in spirit and the strong express tenderness, fostering dialogue through love and wisdom.

This guerrilla-style drama exposes the harsh reality of money-driven child marriages in China. The Chinese government wants to keep the subject of this film hidden, but it's undeniable that arranged marriages and bride-buying still exist in China's poorer provinces. The filmmakers witnessed these practices firsthand, through their own family members. In the film, we follow 14-year-old Hani, who dreams of marrying Pushiha. However, in the village, every bride comes with a hefty price tag. Desperate, Hani looks for ways to raise the money, even if it means committing crimes. This heartbreaking, real-life Romeo and Juliet story reflects a harsh truth.

A young Chinese woman living in the United States is waiting for the results of the visa lottery. This time becomes a period of reflection for her, as she is visited by the memories of family banquets prepared by her grandmother, together with the ghosts of the past. In this enchanting journey through time, noodles take on a Proustian flavour.

A solitary old man, estranged from his family, saves a troubled teenager from a suicide attempt, leading them to form an unexpected bond. As they share their deepest secrets and support each other, they embark on a journey of self-discovery that empowers them to confront their fears and pursue their true desires.

Unreleased Hu Jie film.

Yao Hong is an elite courtesan at a high-class brothel located in the International Settlement. She has rescued Su Qing, a female student who lost everything due to the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai. As the Pearl Harbour attack took place, the invaders officially took over the International Settlement. An unexpected pregnancy befalls Yao Hong, and the dire conditions of wartime compel her to terminate the pregnancy. Su Qing helps closely with this life-threatening task as her sole companion.

In Xinjiang, in northwest China, an underground river brings life to the desert for the Uyghur people. An ancient construction whose waters flow from the depths of the earth to the lush grape fields, the Karez is known to those who benefit from it as the Mother River.

On a foggy morning, a simple conversation between two anglers turns into a collective panic. The film explores the psychology of the mob in ambiguous situations.

In November 2022, the lockdown measures in Wuhan city became increasingly strict. A group of trailer workers dragged their carts through the metal barriers. This absurd game seemed endless, but an unexpected protest changed everything.

The caudal vertebrae (coxxyx), the most significant part of the body that distinguishes humans from animals. The symbols and images derived from it form the "signifier chain" of the body and objects And becomes narrative in the gaze of the viewer: An office in the middle of ecology and the jungle, The bodies of white-collar workers are alienated by the materials of their profession and office ...... PHYSICAL GUERRILLAS invaded the office space in an office building, where they checked in together every day in hundreds of trees, and fully integrated into this unique field with anxiety and involution: Different groups of people are spaces – any psychological and spiritual communication will create a "new space", and the sound environment of the area will regain a new space with a unique texture.

Drolma is a rural girl who works in a foot SPA in the city. For a traditional Tibetan family, washing people's feet is a particularly menial job. Her work as a foot-washer came to light when a customer inadvertently took a picture of her at work and leaked it. Undoubtedly, it’s unacceptable for the elders in her hometown, even her family. In the face of public pressure, what will Drolma do?

Chen Yanan, whose love life had taken a turn for the worse, found herself stranded alone on a remote island. While struggling to survive on the island, she rescued a trapped German Shepherd dog (Xiao Ba). On the island, Chen Yanan faced numerous dangers, all of which were averted by Xiao Ba. On one occasion, Xiao Ba was kidnapped by savages while trying to rescue Chen Yanan, prompting Chen Yanan to risk her life to save Xiao Ba. In her moment of desperation...

After experiencing the destruction and brainwashing during the Cultural Revolution, an old farmer, Lin Zhongshu, tries to reverse-brainwash the experts, media, and government officials to preserve a local musical tradition through a thirty-year long journey. Lin tries every means possible to protect this ancient culture and the affiliated organization: Qujiaying Music Society.

A drone tends to sugarcane growth, eliminating threats in a world where humans are extinct. An encounter with an ant reminds it of its first patrol, after the collapse of 20th-century collectivism and a sugar mill’s destruction by globalized predictive behavior.

Shuke and Beita are at it again! Follow the mice duo on an exhilarating adventure as they use their skills to stop evil-doers in their city.

During the Republic of China period, the Qianzhou area in Guanzhong was in a state of turmoil, with black and evil forces preying on the people and running rampant. In order to change the long-suffering situation of ravaging and oppression, the miracle doctor Li Daoan and the aspirant Su Qingyun want to unite the common people to rise up against them, but they can't come up with an effective solution.

This is Life is a documentary purely made with UGC footages. It tells stories about common Chinese people regarding four aspects of their life: what they wear, what they eat, where they live, and how they migrate. Stories presented in this film is not just showing people's life in first-tier cities, it also represents probably 3000 counties, 40000 towns, and 660000 villages in China. The way how this documentary is made guarantees you to see a raw, but vivid China you have never seen before.

17-year-old girl Tianyue is about to leave her home and her father to go to school in the city where her mother lives. Before leaving, she and her father came to the river where they often went as children.

A young woman had fallen to her death. The police officer Xiaobai recognized that Li Meng was the gay lover of her youth. She recalled the once bright summer days and an exclusive song of the two. She couldn‘t figure out why the girl she remembered became this and decided to dig in to give herself an answer. Li Meng’s parents gave her a locked tape recorder. In the recordings, she came to understand what Li Meng was going through and became complicit in her death.

In Yunnan, near the burmese frontier, a biker is engaged by a foreigner to lead him in ruins areas...

Departing from the traditional factory lines of production on the plastic plant manufacturing industry. From there, the film expands into the realm of synthetic nature, portraying a highly engineered landscape,developed by startups. The images appear to be bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence as a connection to the strange and gory logics of petro capitalism and global territories of extraction.Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, serves as a temporal vector: it is the raw material for plastic plants, Revealing the absurd techno-solutionist vision of the future.

A man and a woman don't find their place in their world, a world which a giant work office.

A lifeless old mansion hosts the liveliest birthday banquet. Guests enjoy the food and music while the birthday star remains silent. Only a peach seems to stir her soul. Adapting a story from Qing-era writer Pu Sonling’s zhiguai collection “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”, A TALE OF THE STOLEN PEACH narrates the traditional Chinese cultural sympathy for the deceased, “finding rest in the blessed kingdom for spectral spirits.”

In the hilly city of Chongqing, a painter searches for the old apartment where he and his parents used to live. He asks local residents for directions, walks through narrow passages between buildings, and calls his 90-year-old mother for confirmation. But the city has changed beyond recognition. Behind the camera, his daughter documents his journey.

The documentary Fen records the daily life of Li and Lianzi, a couple who have been migrant workers in a Chinese megacity for 20 years. Lacking local Household Registration, their adolescent elder son, Manshan, is facing a lot of stress as he prepares for the high school entrance exam. The younger son, a left-behind child, has been raised by the grandmother over these years. In hope of family reunion, Li and Lianzi want to convert to the local Household Registration through a point-based system offered by the government. If they cannot acquire enough points, Manshan will face more competition to get into public high school, and the prospect of bringing the younger son over will remain slim. What future awaits this family? Fen is the required points to convert to local Household Registration. It is the admission score for public high school. And it is the looming separation weighing on the family.

Chinese poet Xiuhua Yu, who has cerebral palsy, became instantly famous when her poems went viral on social media. When it happened she was stuck in a violent and loveless marriage in rural China. Director Jian Fan’s award-winning 2016 documentary Still Tomorrow followed her throughout her breakthrough year, when she gained the financial freedom to end her marriage. All that was missing was love.

Two families in Awat County, southern Xinjiang, China, the Uyghur family of Aierken and the Han family of Guan Xiaoyan, make a living by growing cotton. During the busy cotton picking season, they encountered various unexpected situations such as difficulty in finding harvesting hands, injuries, and continuous rain. But with the concerted efforts of their respective family members, the year's hard work of the two families finally paid off satisfactorily. This film uses the shooting and narrative style of real movies, with the connection of local folk songs and music, as well as the exotic audio-visual language, to show the real life texture and simple family values of Xinjiang cotton farmers in an idyllic way.

A fugitive named Kui sneaks back home to attend his mother's funeral, disguising himself as a Buddhist monk. Surprisingly, he is asked to chant scriptures at another funeral and while doing so, all his memories come rushing back.

A man goes out to buy a watermelon and meets his ex. Meanwhile, his current lover is trapped on the balcony, completely unaware of the situation. Both inside and outside his home, a heavy rainstorm is about to fall.

The rebellious mermaid girl Xiao Ai runs away from home and accidentally enters the human world, embarking on a fantastical, heartwarming, and adventurous journey.

A documentary of underground music culture in Beijing

This film looks at the process of two children who have lost their mother's love with a tender look and realize their dreams in an innocent and even whimsical way.

Considering the underground as both a metaphor and a manifest reality, Zheng’s film Sinking Latitude focuses on a myth about underground flooding. The city where the story takes place (Zigong city in the Sichuan province, China) has a history of salt mining that spans more than 2000 years, and generations of residents who have lived there have passed down a prophetic myth for centuries–that due to excessive mining, the city's underground has long been hollowed out and depleted, filling with salty brine, and that one day, when an earthquake occurs, an underground flood of salty liquid, the mine itself, will surge out and engulf the city.