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In a technologically advanced yet collapsed society, cyberpunk SF and traditional oriental martial arts converge. The story follows the emotional entanglement between a long-lost chivalrous couple and a person with regenerated organs starting from a fight for a mystic magic lyre. From the perspective of the capabilities of regeneration technologies, it prompts audiences to contemplate the amplification or dissolution of emotional value.

The film records the daily life of James, a 19-year-old autistic patient, and his mother. During the day-to-day study and work, we see that music brings a different power to his mother. Music also makes us look forward to the future.

Having left Yunnan, his native city, Yu Zhao moved to Beijing, where he has lived for more than thirty years. Since his retirement, his only occupation has been helping his son in the house and looking after his grandson. When Yu Zhao returns to Yunnan with the intention of starting a new life, he finds that things, his relatives, friends and loves of the past are no longer the way he remembered them. Everything has become colder and more routine. The people he knew now have their own lives and the dream of a new love disappears too. Gradually Yu Zhao realises that Yunnan is no longer his true home, and he decides to return to Beijing.

Ode to the Centaur considers the intersection of Chinese history and queer identities otherwise hidden from public view. The film centralizes representations of the centaur in ancient mythology, exploring how the horse-human hybrid can be used to question limited views of masculinity in present day China.

Two waiters in a Shanghai restaurant try to please a rich guest only to find out that he is not who he seems.

This is a story about Yang Yang, a lonely deaf girl who's finding friends, and about the director, Yuen Nanhsi, who meets her by chance. Their lives intertwine with each other, revealing the difficulties the youth face and their longing for the future.

A man gets trapped in a restroom and the ghosts of his past won't let him escape.

A hazy memory, an untouched scar, a powerless conversation, a fateful reunion. This is a visual letter from a daughter to her father, discussing the fate of another daughter.

This is a video diary of the surreal lock-down made by the filmmaker couple who were trapped in a small, rented apartment in Shanghai. In the face of endless madness, the camera gradually breaks free from the window and observes a vast social isolation unprecedented in the country's history.

A short film that explores gender on an international scale. Using gender and artistic expression alike, two artists on opposite sides of the world explore what it means to exist as an enigma, something that can never be defined, only expressed.

A news photograph capturing an ordinary event sparks rumours and leads to comical misunderstandings on a stormy day. This delightful graduation project from the esteemed animation department of the China Academy of Arts, which consistently showcases amazing projects to world audiences, will deliver joy in various ways.

During the lockdown, I wrote a letter to my friend Jacklynn, recalling a meeting we had before the epidemic, and the memories began to emerge with the extended urban traffic line.

In 2017, a large-scale urban renewal project displaced Grandma, a woman nearing ninety years old, from her home. She is forced to live with each of her three children on a rotating monthly basis. This situation leads to numerous adjustments, discomfort, and misunderstandings between Grandma and her children.

The documentary "Fungi Kingdom" is China's first systematic and comprehensive documentary on fungi. Over the course of two years, the production team ventured deep into primeval forests, using fungi as the narrative focus. Through the lens of a one-square-meter habitat, the ocean on land, and the concept of fungi giving rise to all things, the documentary gradually unveils the mysteries of the fungal kingdom from point, line, to plane, presenting a systematic and holistic perspective. It tells the story of the habitats within national parks—their ecology, the endless cycle of life, their diverse and fantastical nature, as well as the indispensable role fungi play in the ecosystem's cycle.

Even in the face of physical and geographic barriers, Yu Xiaolong can't be stopped from getting in his three-wheeled motorcycle, driving across China, and embarking on his quest for dignity and love.

A "village" was closed for three years. Some "villagers" tried to break out with their stories or resist with psychosis. In the end, they failed.Leave behind some stories：Wu Zetian in Gaoliying, dog-killing woman lived in tent, an engineer of an unfinished building. This is an artist’s survival catalog and a documentary about rumors revisited. The editing was completed in the winter after the epidemic ended.

As the old house slowly disappears, I try to find the memory of a forgotten family departed among the ruins.

An ordinary female college student Xiao Dong tried to find a hotel in Beijing to masturbate, but failed.

Departing from personal friendship and reflection, this video letter examines the visual complexity and paradoxicality of atomic bomb imagery in China. From 1960s’ military documentary to current days’ fictions with CG effects, a visual trope of the collective “People’s Bomb” was orchestrated against the imperial evil and the wild nature of the gobi desert. Living in the Anthropocene ecological crisis, in nuclearity we may find visceral connections, endurance, disenchantment of and re-politicization of the image.

The film explores a piece of a family past from a hundred years ago. Through the narration of a photo album by one of the family members, a history of regional migration caused by social changes is revealed. From hallucination, the protagonist's nostalgia for old photos and longing for the past merge into one.

Ainiannian,“Ai（亻厓）”means “My”in Hakka dialect,and I call my mother“Niannian（嬭嬭）” in Hakka dialect. This is a private image in memory of my mother,and also a hodgepodge of Hakka rural customs in western Fujian: The deep-fired rice cakes ,The Guanshe Kueh,The scripture of Wugong,The scripture of Luozu, Wearing one’s hair in a buddhist bun, The Dizang fast, The Tiansheng incense, The meal for the bodhisattvas,Reciting the scripture of Yuhuang, Redeem a vow to god,Selecting a date with the help of spirit-medium,The Lake of Blood ritual, The Zhongyuan Festival, Lighting the Zhutian incense,The ritual to transform the dead to ancestor.

While a retired shaman is asked to let a soul pass heaven, a cow is giving birth.

Between 2022 to 2023, the artist embarked on four filming trips into the Changbai Mountains and the upstream region of the Songhua River. She captured documentary footage of activities such as logging, hunting, ginseng digging, fishing, and more, using video mediums like 16mm film, digital camera, drone, and GoPro. Throughout this process, the artist not only experienced the changing seasons of nature but also encountered immense challenges posed by extreme weather conditions, particularly the harsh cold, which tested her physical and mental resilience as well as the filming process itself. The film A Darkness Shimmering in the Light portrays the frozen Songhua River as a gateway to a journey through time and space. By integrating segments from ethnography of Siberia and the Xing'an Mountains, Northeastern literature, and folklore into the documentary footage, the artist constructs a series of fictional ecological narratives.

During the Ming Dynasty, 100,000 pieces of gold stored in the Jinyang-seong station are stolen. The head of Jin Yang-seong Gwan-ah orders Geum-wi to take back the gold.

The one born from Chaos abandons his origins tries to find peace and in turn creates his own planet.

I invited six people of different ages to talk about their fears, and then tried to comfort them with pacifiers. People outside the cradle seem to no longer need pacifiers. Faced with a more complex world, they have learned to make their own pacifiers.

This is the first film in a series of works by the artist to engage with ways of coming to knowledge of the ecosystems of language. Its Chinese title translates directly as "the sky rained grain," the phrase used by the legendary Cangjie to describe the creation of Chinese characters, as recorded in the Huainanzi. Its first short film, but this is the language we met in, is where trees, teeth, and spoken words cross beyond the threshold of re-relating. Many elements in the film are of a learning process, of a word’s relation to language, a language’s expression to another, of wood in room returning to tree in soil, of teeth evoking bone memories — its 400 million year evolution from fish scales, of working together, and of a new story revealing itself. Instead of coming to terms with or tracing the complexity of a loss, the series proposes a different position in relation to the pain of losing.

A childhood investigation into the ancient book Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Xue Hai, deputy highway station chief, is appointed first secretary of poor Jiangzi Village. His dedication earns villagers’ love, but a road contractor, angered by Xue’s quality control, frames him, leading to suspension. Villagers rally with a petition, and higher authorities clear his name. Xue returns to work tirelessly, but collapses from exhaustion and dies. The villagers, heartbroken, bid him a sorrowful farewell.

This time, it is popular in Douyin A short video episode Presented in a series from beginning to end. The story is that everything can see the future It started from a magic mirror. Tin Hao Ha He is a recent heart transplant recipient. After heart transplant surgery, he saw a girl in the mirror Always seeing and falling in love. I love that girl too much Even his future wife was disconnected But this girl was not as pure as he thought When he realized that he was approaching him on purpose His future wife has left him. Behind the reason for approaching him What big problems will there be? How to solve these problems

The second part of the documentary trilogy "Northwest Lu", "Alzheimer" focuses on the state of life of the elderly in their twilight years, mainly by showing the relationship between mother and daughter (there are also a part of mother and child relationship) to describe the real state of life of the elderly in their twilight years; it also describes the daily conversations between the grandparents and the life imagery hidden in the details of life; Alzheimer is not a disease, but just a part of the elderly walking through life. Alzheimer's is not a disease, but just a part of the life of the elderly, which is equivalent to the process of the reverse growth of life consciousness, and to look down on the boundaries of life and death; in addition to this, there is also the significance of the quietness of the cozy village life.

In a small town in southern China, Peng Xu, a high school boy who hides his homosexuality, meets an online friend with a fake photo, and everything quietly changes. He struggles between the shackles of reality and the desire for inner emotion and finally plucks up the courage to decide to meet Jia Sixing, a male netizen. However, after testing each other, he finds out that both of them are actually hiding something.

A young woman in love embarks on a dangerous journey to find a man she met on the internet and doesn't know much about. Her stubbornness goes so far that the director is forced to stop her. The film thus opens up questions about the author's responsibility for the subjects she is following in documentary filmmaking.

The director of the local committee of the Women's Federation, Fu Yongju, and her husband, a 'barefoot doctor,' decided to seize the opportunity of moving to the city to open a clinic. However, there was a huge gap between their ideals and reality. The clinic encountered difficulties. After Fu's husband fell ill and passed away, Fu and her daughter struggled to survive in the unfamiliar city. Following Dreams of the Yangtze and Bing'ai, this is the third film in the 'Daughters of the River' series.

In the mid-1990s, the Yuanmingyuan Artist Village dissolved, and artists resettled in Songzhuang's Xiaopu Village in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. The affordable living conditions and relatively free creative environment attracted independent artists from all over China. They arrived with utopian dreams and a thirst for artistic freedom, surviving and creating in the name of art, and developing a unique way of life. Over time, more flocked to the area, leading to the emergence of related industries and small businesses. Streets, shops, taverns, artist studios, and village residences formed a complex network. Over the course of more than a decade, Xiaopu Village transformed from a handful of artists to China's largest art community, with a population of over ten thousand. The cohabitation and interactions with indigenous peoples, local government, and commercial capital, all contributed to Songzhuang's distinctive artistic ecology and made it a microcosm of China's transitional era.

Due to the severe air pollution, whenever it rains in summer bad moods keep popping up like mushrooms after the rain.