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In the 1990s, a car full of prisoners collides head-on with a large tractor rushing on the Panshan Highway. Injured prisoners struggle to get out of the overturned car. Prison police Yue Bing (Zhu Shunliang) and Liu Zhicheng (Fu Hengzhi), who were escorting the car, were also seriously injured, and severely warned the prisoners who wanted to take the opportunity to escape.

A man's restaurant business booms while his family falls apart.

The camera gazes at the crowd in Tiananmen Square. Accompanied by the music of Qigong exercises, the lives passing to and fro seem imbued with an immense weight.

In a small yard in Beijing Hutong, the Zhao family gave birth to a son named Zhao Xiaotao in the cry of babies. In order to cultivate his son's prosperity, Xiao Tao's parents made all kinds of efforts to create a better learning environment for him. Unexpectedly, Xiao Tao did not follow the blueprint that his parents had already drawn. As Xiao Tao grew up, he gradually understood a lot of truths, and his parents also reflected on their education methods. With the joint efforts of a family, Xiao Tao changed from a poor student to an excellent student. Parents love their children. Children understand that parents constitute a picture of human affection.

An artist's life in modern China mixed with his poetic memories of childhood, fairytales, and his imaginary world.

The melody of the hymn echoes in the old streets and alleys of the city. This is strange in a country that regards religion as a spiritual opium. The small, messy street was full of old people, and they began to pray with the sound of the room on the street. On the roof, a simple cross gleamed in the sun. During the Cultural Revolution, Christianity was completely eradicated. In China's political environment, Christianity has always been regarded as an extremely reactionary and evil thing, and openly believing in God would bring prison sentences. After the reform and opening up, Christianity also resumed activities. Although the Three-Self Church under official control is orthodox, house churches that are not under official control have also emerged in various cities. This film documents the activities of a house church in Nanjing.

A group of chinese students talk to the camera about love, sex, career prospects, decisions to stay or leave the country, and the impact events in Tiananmen had had on their lives.

A Self-Portrait is the story of the art teacher Qiu Sha, told in photos and the words of Qiu Sha, about his youth, the changes in his family and in society. Director He Yi: 'What I remember now is the material that I came to mind of a man who has lived through the different eras in China. From all this material I not only read the history of a man and his family, I also learned something about the demands placed on life in a society over several decades.

A documentary of 24th April, 1970 assassination of Chiang Ching-kuo.

Gullible Sin apprentices himself to a faith healer and discovers that his master is merely a sexually driven con man who takes advantage of the women seeking cures for their various ailments. After exposing the empty magic of his master, Sin is convinced that he has attained god-like status, resulting in a series of disastrous events revealing his unravelling psyche.

The award-winning documentary Empty Mountain is about a village in the Daba Mountain area. The people who live there are very poor, but nonetheless very hopeful, and enjoy their living conditions in the mountains. Peng Hui and two film crew members interviewed and filmed in villages with no water, electricity, and minimal food resources; they worked and lived for more than six months, relying on rain, instant noodles and two tents. The result was Empty Mountain, a documentary which has already been accepted as a teaching and observational tool by Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Beijing Film Academy, Shanghai Fudan University, and Shanghai Theater Academy.

The humorous short film provides a lesson in arithmetic with the help of five people and twelve mosquitos.

Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, artists, community activists, and people living with AIDS are mixed.

2H combines documentary and dramatic film techniques to depict the psychological passages of two Chinese expatriates in Tokyo as they attempt to accommodate their existence to the two universal events of life - birth and death. Ma Jinsan is a 95 year-old former Kuomintang general who defected to Japan nearly 50 years earlier, shortly after the Communist revolution. Bound to Ma by chance, circumstance, and emotional need, Xiong Wenyun is an avant-garde artist desperately seeking to fulfill an innate but inarticulate desire to have a child.

This short film reflects the story of a typical Chinese family around the birth and naming of children, thinking about the pressure from society before a life is even born.

After Mao Zedong's wife is killed in Changsha in 1930 by Nationalist agents, his three children are sent to Shanghai and kept in hiding.

Cui Jian and Zhang Yuan

Cui Jian and Zhang Yuan

Chinese film directed by Ah Nian. Embodies the historical views and values ​​of young people born in the 1960s. The Cultural Revolution, a very special and extremely embarrassing era in Chinese history, experienced reform and opening up during its adolescence, but also faced a wave of commodities during its maturity period. On the whole, they are a generation that has not been well developed. The film bureau considered the original title "City Love 1997" to be ambiguous, and proposed to change it to "Winter Love" or “Love in the City.” Since then, the film has undergone nearly a year of modification and waiting. The reflection of the Cultural Revolution is one of the main parts requested by the film bureau. The film was changed again and again, but was not approved, and then the director made a copy of the film privately, and participated in the 45th Spanish San Sebastian Film Festival without obtaining the "Film Release License."

Another curve ball from the Beijing 'underground', Guangli Wang's debut feature first tells a story and then wittily deconstructs it. Painter Jinian, undergoing eye surgery for wounds received in a bar fight, remembers or imagines his relationships with student journalist Xue and her lesbian lover Yu. On recovering, he sets about trying to write and direct a film about the three of them. His meetings with potential producers, actors and technicians eventually get the project moving, but not quite as he foresaw it.

Street mischievous, whimsical fortune. Make a wild bet and owe a foreign debt. So he took risks and robbed money. A promiscuous woman, jealous of colleagues, colluding with foreign ghosts to rob her own company. Be cautious when making friends

In the years before 1995, young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan, in the western suburbs of Beijing. These people settled in the rental houses of the village farmers, and then ambitiously bought paint-stretched canvases to explore and create art. The biggest difficulty they face is to make up for the monthly rent to be paid to the landlord. Selling paintings is not their only means of survival; they would also rely on other crafts to maintain their lives. Their works were very different; they have a spirit of rebellion, and they do not conform to traditional aesthetics. This is what caused Sate officials to intervene. (Shot May–December 1995.)

An erotic tale based on Pan Jinlian, an archetypal femme fatale in Chinese classics.

1995 short film

A documentary of the Yuanda Song and Dance Tent Show, a wandering troupe from the countryside of Henan Province that is on the road all four seasons of the year.