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Before the mother of the 10-year-old girl ShuYan disappeared, she told her that once she had been capable, her mother would come back. She searched everywhere for “capable” until she saw the children in her village snatching the pink flag at the wedding and was praised by everyone for being “capable”. She then rampaged, fearless and competed for the pink flag, but waiting for her was even greater confusion…

Starting from the children’s party where Zhang Shengjia celebrated his ninth birthday at a KFC fast food restaurant in 2006, the Chinese artist and filmmaker’s essayistic archive film unfolds a cheerful cultural history of the birthday cake from a Chinese perspective. The convention reached China from Western Europe and North America in the early 20th century and merged with local birthday traditions. The constantly growing influence of Western consumer culture since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms of the 1980s was exemplified in 1990 when almost 13,000 customers were registered on the opening day of the country’s very first McDonald’s restaurant in Shenzhen.

A digital translation of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman (1918), exploring the power dynamics of language (text—sound—image) and sound (noise—language—music).

One day in winter, Xiaolin's father suddenly left. Afterwards, Xiaolin suffered from a strange illness and couldn't fall asleep. Xiaolin's old friend, A Bao, broke into his life as a courier. The two of them wandered through the city streets trying to escape the plague like pain but kept circling in their memories. A mountain of express delivery, a samurai sword labeled incorrectly in Japanese, red dots on the sheets, and a collapsed city village. The whole city was waiting for a rain that was about to fall, and Xiaolin had a dream.

During a hot and humid summer in the south, Mr.Wang mysteriously disappears after playing by the river, and the neighbor who secretly loves him, Xiao Fei, falls into sadness and confusion She works numbly during the day, and wanders the river like a ghost at night to find the traces of Mr.Wang.

Zhou, who enjoys growing flowers and playing the accordion, living in the same nursing home as Hui Zhen in their golden years, who has never seen Epiphyllum oxypetalum before. Their intimate daily act of admiring flowers and listening to music together captivated the attention and igniting conversations among the elder residents in nursing home. As the day of Epiphyllum oxypetalum bloom approached, Zhou determined to fulfill his promise to Huizhen, setting out to invite her to witness this spectacle. The distance seemed short, but Zhou was struggling to reach destination.

After being released from prison, Wei Dong, whose life was shattered by a drug lord’s actions, sets out to capture drug dealers and earn enough reward money to win back his family. Meanwhile, gambler Huo Sheng kills a drug mule to steal money and drugs from a crash site. Wei Dong and Huo Sheng unexpectedly become colleagues, driving trash trucks. As they unknowingly become entangled with the drug lord, a darkly comedic clash unfolds between them, with each pursuing their own agenda.

The story revolves around me as the protagonist, reminiscing about past memories while sitting alone under a tree in front of the ice rink late at night. Feeling uncertain about the future and confused by past memories, I contemplate.

A man and a woman trapped in a cage open the door when the baby is born, and only one of them can escape to determine the sex of the newborn.

After retiring from the People's Liberation Army in China, an officer relocates to a Buddhist monastery. There, he is tasked with managing the temple’s thousands of keys—but matching them seems impossible. Leveraging his computer science expertise, he attempts to establish a perfect key management system. Meanwhile, his daughter films his silhouette. The two exist in close proximity, yet every opportunity for communication remains unspoken.

The film ‘Lost Love’ is a tear-jerking love suspense film, based on Leng Ning's novel ‘Still - Love’ and his personal true emotional experience, through two entwined love, digging out the true meaning of human nature.

Lao San is about a boy named Erguang in a rural village, whose father is absent and mother plans to go to the city for work. He has to move to his aunt’s home while he is only obsessed with finding his friend.

After receiving a call from her late fiancé, an unknown force starts to disturb Xiaoxue’s normal life.

Dream versus reality. Persistence versus abandonment. In the game of life, what is the right choice? There’s no correct answer, ultimately. But as director Jo Leong said in an interview, “I’ve determined that I’ll burn brightly without any regrets!” Let's follow the director and go crazy together on the road to pursuing our dreams!

Sixteen years ago, a human trafficker broke into Wu Xinghu’s house and took his 13-month-old son. Since then, he has been on a relentless journey to find his son. In July 2023, Wu Xinghu reached out to Wang Meizhi and Wu Xuexian, the parents of another trafficked child, and they decided to meet up in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to look for their kids together in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Hebei Provinces. During the search, Wu Xinghu’s parents passed away one after another, while Wu Xuexian’s child was miraculously found and rescued. This only fueled Wu Xinghu’s resolve to find his own kid.

A female worker at a stone factory discovers a poster for a poetry sharing event at the local bookstore. From then on, her bleak existence becomes the subject of small streaks of light and color.

China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing and exhaustion.

A summer afternoon, the mother's sudden visit triggers some deep buried issues between she and her daughter. Homosexuality is a subject that would never be brought up between the mother and the daughter. As the woman keeps questioning her mother, the mother finally speaks up about the secret she hides deep inside. The conversation at the end of this scene is a goodbye from the woman to her mother, it is a cry from a lonely heart. To the woman, her mother is her each solitary moment.

Nick, as a Chinese director, sinks in the sadness of his break-up with Mandy, a Chinese designer, at his birthday night. He watches Mandy's favorite film and keeps drinking, until next day, they encounter each other outside a theatre which feels like a wish.

The stubborn man Deng is obsessed with the woman Hong Hong; Hong Hong is obsessed with the master; the master is obsessed with his own magic; the “spell” reflects the three of them...

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future versions of herself.

Against the backdrop of the traditional stone quarrying culture of Jinyun County in Zhejiang, The Stone Road traces the development of this craft from the Song Dynasty to the late 20th century. The film captures the daily life and work of the stonecutters, whose labor helped shape the bridges, streets, and houses of the region.

In 2013, in a small town in Guanzhong, a ten-year-old girl named Mimi was assigned to be a boy. In order to prove that she was a girl, she fought hard but almost made a big mistake.

While paying respects to her late father, Zian discovers a photograph of him with a young boy named Zitong, whom she doesn't recall. Intrigued, she delves into uncovering Zitong's identity, questions surrounding her father's death, and the mysterious figure shadowing her.

Fly through an abstract world, drawn in by digital ink. Inspired by Taoist philosophy and the writings of Zhuang Zhou, this interactive experience allows the visitor to fly, swim and soar as something other – and maybe more – than human. The game is controlled by moving on a custom-built balance ball controller, which heightens the corporeal experience.

Under the neon labyrinths of a futuristic Osaka, a man searches through data and shadows for the mysterious entity that has hacked into his body

The film revolves around the world's first space museum. Tour guide Elizaveta talks about space flights, planetarium engineer Dmitry shows the public the stars and planets, Tsiolkovsky’s great-granddaughter Elena helps local actor Andrey get into the role of her famous great-grandfather, an astronautics theorist. All characters are united by their passion for space and pride in their museum.

The day Lei Zi was released from prison, the glacier was about to open in a small northern town.

A short film showcasing Eevee and its Eeveelutions.

In her sophomore year of high school, Maggie lives a simple and boring repetitive life in order to fight against boredom, she holds a search for bad ice cream competition with friends every thursday, or eavesdrops on her mother’s phone...

Centers on a married couple in their 80s who decide to divorce, which proves shocking news to the small country-town community of Huaihua in Hunan province. Director Yang, who is their granddaughter, unpicks the story behind the separation and a marriage that began 60 years ago through matchmaking.

Through an intricately hand-drawn ink wash animation created frame-by-frame, Liu Yi explores the concept of dreams as a blend of personal memories and parallel universes. She delves into the recurring theme of parting with one's grandmother, symbolizing a cycle of sorrow. This reflects on the idea that dreams are shaped by our past, mirroring the 'information cocoon' effect seen in reality

The society we live in is like an invisible huge factory, which is involved, exploited and squeezed ... People have no choice but to be mediocre day after day. This film takes a social worker's daily life as the viewpoint, surrealises what she sees every day, and sees her fantasy digital god when she looks up on the way to work, which leads the audience to re-examine and think about the real world.

Three years epidemic later, many villages and towns in Sichuan Province began to resume traditional cultural activities-Temple fairs. For thousands of years, villagers usually thanked various gods by inviting opera troupe to sing and through asking the divinatory symbols to dream, making and returning wishes with inductive ways to interact with the gods. In the clouds of incense and fire, pray for their own worldly interests to be realized, but also obtain spiritual comfort.

In a Manhattan apartment in New York, there lived a 96-year-old solitary elderly person, Gao Yaojie. Seen as the first grassroots AIDS activist in China, Gao was forced to flee to the United States from China at the age of 82. The elderly woman’s long and tumultuous life mirrors the turbulent modern history of China. The film documents the lonely last three months of Gao Yaojie’s life. On 10 December 2023, Gao Yaojie passed away in New York.

A mother from China searches for her missing daughter in New York. Called to identify a dead body, she insists that the victim is not her daughter. Against the winter cold, she begins to post missing person flyers on the streets, day after day.

Mahjong Butterfly is not only his name but also his story. This film tells the story of how Patrick, Mahjong butterfly, found himself in the city of New York and how he took intergenerational work and fighting for the rights of the LGBTQ community as his mission.

This film has only one scene and one actor, and it only takes one night. All the stories are completed by the characters during the phone calls. This film is not a pioneering experimental film, but a genre film, with a certain suspense element and a reversal at the end. Late one night, insurance investigator Li Siqi accidentally learned that he was infected with AIDS, so he called all the people he had had sex with to verify who infected him with AIDS. On this night, all the truth about Li Siqi's life and all the emotions broke out in one night.