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Zhou Xiaoting tried to use film as a love letter to say goodbye to her mother, while Han Xia wanted to prove her perfectionism. Each person has their own intentions and meaning when making a film, but they all face different challenges on their journey to becoming a director.
First Second tells the story of two solitary figures - one aboard a never-stopping train, the other waiting endlessly at a forgotten desert station - whose worlds collide when the impossible happens: the train stops. In the wreckage of silence, they draw from one another the first moment of change, the first second of time that truly matters.
Xiao Gao’s life can turn upside down in just a few weeks. Along with her friends, she stumbles into the messy world of adulthood, searching for real love. Meanwhile, her parents keep pressuring her to settle down and give them grandkids. But when she looks around, the men she meets are… well, a total mixed bag. Sure, some are good-looking, but they’re also selfish, greedy, and full of lies. Every time she tries to get close to someone, she ends up getting hurt or mocked. And now, with society’s expectations breathing down her neck, the fear of ending up alone hits her out of nowhere…
During the rainy season in Dali, within a small bookstore, two women and a man encountered each other in pairs over three days, awakening a secret and the past. The first two days might have been real events, the third a fiction—or perhaps it was the reverse. Perhaps all three dissolve into the narrator’s fabrication: a single raindrop unmoored from time’s river.
A short film by Zhaoguang Luo and Shuhan Liao
A housewife NPC can no longer tolerate the player's wanton destruction in her house, so she decides to rebel.
A dreamlike, fantastical drift around a fractured identity, with dazzling visual inventions. Like a diary that visually conveys a state of being between two worlds.
A film produced in collaboration with Beijing-based collaborator Yuan Yuan which interweaves 16mm film and DV video with textual intertitles and fragments of voice-over narration. Merging aspects of visionary cinema, landscape film and home movie, the film combines footage shot in Manhattan Chinatown, Hong Kong, and Beijing into an intimate reflection on the act of physical and spiritual passage between a series of pressurised and rapidly shifting temporalities governed by different myths of order.
Putting himself in front of the camera, Chinese film student Kai attempts to reveal the complexities of his friendship with Hal, an older African American spare change newspaper vendor he met upon his arrival in the U.S. As they reenact the events that happened a year ago, both begin to struggle with the authenticity and ethical issues of the project. However, no documentary form can claim moral superiority.
Chinese immortals descend to a glitching, digitally scanned world, competing to inhabit statues that mirror China’s collapsing class mobility, pragmatic faith, and viral worship culture. Each statue reflects a social stratum—from state power to forgotten rural elders. A VR fable where tradition culture collides and coexists with modernity.
City boy Fang Fang is sent to his rural grandfather’s home during his mother’s business trip. Initially resistant to his mute grandfather and local girl Xiao Duo, he gradually warms to simple countryside life: working, playing, and forging meaningful bonds as his emotional walls thaw.
"Ice and White Blood" is a suspense film that tells the story of forestry inspector Zhang Jun who is accidentally involved in the attack on actress Zhang Ziqi at the Ice Resort. In his search for the truth, characters such as the resort owner, the owner's wife, a writer, a ski instructor, a deer farm owner, and a racing driver appear one after another. They all have a love-hate relationship with Zhang Ziqi, and each of them seems to have a motive for attacking her. Zhang Jun unravels the truth bit by bit and finds the real culprit who attacked the actress.
Hong Kong at night, neon flashing, Green, a girl from the mainland, in a cab car being asked questions all the way by the driver.
A neon-lit room is rigged and re-rigged by cameras, as shifting points of view change the power dynamic of a sexual encounter.
Over the span of a decade, the director, as a family member, records the mental odyssey of his sister after she was trafficked, confronts the person who bought her directly, probes into the secrets of his AIDS-stricken father, and listens to his mother’s unspoken laments. In his eyes, this remaining, clan-style family gathers and parts, and as death looms near, they sing heartily.
The Wandering in the Garden · Startling Dream, a court‑style Kunqu Opera production by the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre, is adapted from Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion. Taking “the dream” as its narrative core, it deeply explores the philosophical love transcending life and death between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, and embodies humanity’s eternal pursuit of love and freedom. This film is a stage documentary of this performance.
For decades, preserving Angkor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been a global effort. In this documentary Chinese journalist Miao Xiaojuan explores northwest Cambodia’s jungles to uncover the long-forgotten Royal Palace at the heart of Angkor Thom, once home to Khmer kings.
The village of Guochang ("fruit farm") was established during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) as a labor camp – built by prisoners, including the director's father. Later, the traces were covered up: the place was at times both a village and a prison, and later even a drug treatment center. The film is directed against forgetting and silence and attempts to give the spirits of the dead and disappeared a form of redemption.
8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection... What is a film without a camera? This question was explored through cameraless filmmaking techniques such as photogramming 8.75 archival prints onto 16mm. Here, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation as a medium through which other forms of narrative appear...
Inspired by the Chinese internet slang 摸鱼 (mōyú) or “touching fish,” this documentary project delves into the dynamics of work and leisure within Chinese society. MoYu symbolizes a rejection of rat racing, a compromise under societal pressure, an aspiration for freedom, or simply laziness. Focusing on the delicate balance between individuals and their work, the documentary sheds light on the complexities of the Chinese work culture. Blending storytelling with striking visuals, from scenes in The Sims 4 and authentic CCTV footage to everyday moments in modern China — Touching Fish offers a compelling lens on the complexities of Chinese work culture. As it navigates themes of labor, fulfillment, and resistance, the film invites viewers to reflect on their own relationship with work and time. Touching Fish is not just a portrait of a social phenomenon — it's a conversation starter about what it means to live meaningfully in an age of burnout and overwork.
He Shi, who had studied Maoqiang opera since childhood, saw his career fall into difficulty after an unexpected accident. To restore Maoqiang to its former glory, He Shi formed a new opera troupe with his apprentice, Su Lie, and his "senior brother" (fellow student), Jia Shihao. With the support of Ning Meng, they began to perform, and together with their fellow performers, they successfully passed on the heritage of Maoqiang opera.
This documentary traces Shanghai’s experimental music scene through Shanghai Community Radio founders, with sound and music framing both the city’s fragmented underground and the challenges of censorship in 2020.
The short film tells a mythical story set in Dunhuang, where the bird god Kalaviuka awakens from the ruins of a time of nuniversal extinction. She still hears the chirping of birds and walks on the lake of tears, where she sees a door in the wilderness. There is a hole in the door, and the old god with a broken hand looks at her through it.
fú píng (“duckweed”) is an essay film that follows a woman as she drifts through memories of home, family and womanhood. Through quiet imagery and poetic voiceover, the film reflects on generational trauma, cultural displacement and the unspoken tension between mothers and daughters—floating between time, language and place.
Simulation of an algorithmic language that plays on a base of 0’s and 1’s as well as decomposed Chinese characters that are supposed to be recomposed via retinal persistence.
The Recluse Dongpo is a VR immersive experience co-developed by PICO, Shanghai Library, and Shanghai Theatre Academy's Virtual Performing Art Lab. It recreates the life of SU Shi (Dongpo) by blending his poetry with traditional ink-wash aesthetics and richly detailed depictions of Northern Song scholarly life. Through VR, viewers are transported into SU Shi's world, witnessing the dramatic journey that inspired his literary legacy.
When they first met at Yuan Bo's secularization party, Li Xinran was still an actress suffering from depression. The two, both at the lowest point in their lives, fell in love at first sight and quickly came together, welcoming their first child. With several million yuan in savings, they envisioned an ideal life, but due to extravagance and a lack of financial management experience, they fell into an economic crisis. To turn their situation around, Yuan Bo planned to establish a handpan instrument factory in the mountains of Anji. The lush greenery seemed like their utopian dream. However, with the birth of their second child, their business failed, their business partner left, and they were burdened with debt. The daily grind and financial pressure gradually eroded their once passionate relationship. Deep in the mountains, they loved each other until they had nothing left but each other.
In the dead of night, a daughter is jolted awake to devastating news: her younger brother has been in a car accident. Faced with her parents' demand that she assume criminal responsibility for him within China's deep-rooted patriarchal system, she confronts an agonizing moral crossroads.
Luo Fuxing is the ‘godfather’ of Shamate, an alternative Chinese subcultural movement. Two decades into his career he takes on a new challenge: theatre.
Her disappearance began in the early hours of one morning. We took the wrong suitcase at the airport before the typhoon hit. After that, her life and ours have continued like this.
Two middle-aged men with very different looks roam between the bridges of Shanghai. One, in a suit, wants to find a rich wife through short videos in order to achieve social advancement. The other, unkempt and unwilling to work a regular job, hopes for the eternal support of his fans. Under the influence of the live streaming economy, the absurdities of the lower classes of the time are gradually revealed...
Chen Zhuang plays an elephant in the troupe, the prop master’s inadvertent words are misunderstood by him, the flowing sincere feelings suddenly stop, and he has fallen into memories since then. On a windy day, he decided to finish the date with himself, and it was also a final farewell.
In the summer of 2005, Mala, a young but under-talented 14-year-old boy, decides to take a stab to get himself selected in the city swim team.
Sanhe, a young man making a living by selling replica watches, tracks down his estranged father after many years. He hopes to borrow a large sum of money to “bring back to life” his and his girlfriend’s child – a dog.
The beautiful Tang style composes the sound of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The girl accidentally obtains a time bell and embarks on a journey through ancient and modern time and space. The hidden mysterious kingdom is about to be revealed. The work draws inspiration from historical relics, uses a unique art style to show the humanities of the Tang Dynasty in China, and carries out reasonable imagination and development on the basis of restoring the shape.
In China, a high school teacher has introduced a death education class for young students. On the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, they bury unnamed ashes at a public cemetery where they contemplate and contextualize the meaning of death.
In a future where quantum computers can simulate time travel, an elderly man is tempted to recover a lost crypto wallet, transforming into his younger versions in a simulated space. After numerous cycles, the hero realizes his mistakes and decides to pray for the girl's forgiveness, giving up the opportunity to return to the real world.
In a cursed village abandoned for a thousand years, humans and spirits are bound by ancient rules that must never be broken. When a group of young people dares to enter the haunted forest at night, those rules collapse and vengeful souls awaken. Terror strikes relentlessly, claiming lives and trapping the survivors with no escape. Now they must confront the horrifying truth behind the curse—before the final rule delivers its deadly judgment.
This documentary retraces the memories of dozens of individuals, exploring themes such as childhood, love and marriage, survival, faith, illness, and death. It serves as a visual taxonomy of memory.