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Zho ston ཞོ་སྟོན་, pronounced ‘shodun,’ is a festival celebrated from the end of the sixth and during the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar (August). Monks of the Gelug School དགེ་ལུགས་པ་, the most famous of which is the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, were restricted to their monasteries during the previous month, supposedly to spare the lives of insects at the height of summer and, when the interdiction on movement was lifted, they would be greeted by lay people with gifts of yoghurt (zho ston means ‘yoghurt feast’). The festivities also feature the ‘sunning of Buddha’ tapestries, theatrical performances (a lce lha mo) and picnics at various public parks, including Norbu Linka, formerly the summer residence of the Dalai Lamas.

Chen Yunxuan and his daughter Xiujuan escape from China to Taiwan in 1949 but leave Chen's pregnant wife behind. 30 years later Xiujuan meets her mother and a brother she never knew.

In a coastal port city’s middle school, Principal Han Qiong bundles the lowest achievers into a “Class 2-7,” hoping to boost overall scores. Instead, students Wang Haiyang and Liu Yei fall in love, illegally run a tourist photo stall, only to have their camera seized, and are expelled for cheating on exams.

Little Panda learns carpentry from Grandpa, but he lacks concentration. So when he goes out to do carpentry by himself, he makes many mistakes.

A folktale of the Zhuang nationality of Guangxi province about the daughter of the King of Feathers wedding night.

A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her further inhibits any impulse to go it alone.

First part of the two series about Senior General Gen Chen of the People's Liberation Army

Hong Kong comedy starring David Wu and Meg Lam directed by Chi-Lien Yu.

The Deputy Director of the Qinshan County Bureau of Commerce makes poor business decisions and opposes his daughter's relationship with a man who points out the Deputy Director's errors.

In order to obtain the top secret information of the military bureau to decipher the password, a thrilling international espionage war was launched.

The relationship between Meng Chunyu and He Yudan is affected when Meng is appointed director of a mine, replacing Yudan's father.

Two young sociopaths are bested by an old blind woman and an ancient deer spirit.

Hong Kong movie.

Lou Ye's student work during his study in Beijing Film Academy.

The first post-1949 Mainland production to shoot on location in Hong Kong, this seagoing drama has a dual timeframe connecting pre– and post–Cultural Revolution China, along with introducing one of the era’s most popular movie theme songs. It was a milestone in the career of Mainland film icon Yu Yang (who also directed the film) and provided Paul Fonoroff with what proved to be his largest screen role: a liuxuesheng (foreign exchange student) majoring in oceanography and serving his apprenticeship on a ship helmed by Yu, marking the captain’s return to the sea after the tumultuous Cultural Revolution.

During the days before the liberation of China, a young boy questions the landlord's right to enslave a peasant girl working on his land. With the help of his loyal dog, Saihu (meaning "Racing Tiger"), the boy saves the girl from the landlord's son and breaks the bonds of slavery.

Documentary on the political topic of economic reform.

Based on the old tale of Du Shiniang, a courtesan who falls in love with a student.

A group of young intellectuals return to the city after the Cultural Revolution.

On Tomb Sweeping Day, in 1988, a film crew set out for the monument of the Tangshan earthquake to shoot a memorial ceremony for the victims. This marked the beginning of shooting for a documentary called "The Great Earthquake." The crew continued to shoot through the rest of 1988, even staging a large-scale rock 'n' roll concert and performance art event on the Great Wall, and into 1989, including footage shot at the famous 1989 Avant-Garde Art Exhibition, where one artist fired two gun shots at her exhibit. More footage was shot during the Tiananmen protests, up until the events of June 4th shut down production for good. Shortly before, a two-hour "rough cut" was assembled by main director Wen Pulin and Assistant Director Hao Zhiqiang, which screened only once (and is preserved at University libraries in the U.S.). The footage has been recycled in some of Wen's later films, notably "China Action," but "The Great Earthquake" itself was never finished.

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on film.

It tells a legendary story about a bandit who is an official during the day and a thief at night.

An overprotective mother frets over her son's desire to learn to swim.

Feature film produced by Shanghai Film Studio in 1980 about the growth of young football players in China, showing the game, training, and their lives. Adapted from a play called "3 to 0." At the beginning, the football team loses their game 0 to 3. In order to restore their dignity, the team makes quick adjustments -- strengthening team management, replacing the head coach, and rethinking their training method. This is the first football-themed film in Chinese film history.

Former rustler Snow Wolf is just released from jail and goes to find his lover. He meets and fights his rival in the way. He finds his lover later, but she is tormented to hell. Snow Wolf revenges his lover finally.

A man is murdered on a bus for trying to stop a pickpocket; no one lifts a finger to help him. He returns as a ghost and questions the empathy of the onlookers.

Three delinquent schoolchildren discover a group of sea turtles on the beach. They bring them into town to much consternation from the local adults

Remnants of Taiping Rebellion plan and carry out an assassination aimed at a traitor.

Yi Ru is falsely accused of being a rightist in the People's Republic of China and severs all connections with his family.

The story takes place in Xinzhuang Village in western Henan Province. Due to poverty, Heidun (played by Li Wangxiong) has not yet married and started a family at the age of 27. Ding Yunhe (played by Yu Shaokang) is a retired railway worker who has a unique skill in growing melons.The village party secretary Zhang Migui (played by Yang Zichun) was initially opposed to everyone abandoning the farm to plant melons. Now after the melon farmers harvested a good harvest, he refused to pay Ding Yunhe a large amount of remuneration according to the contract. He began to fabricate baseless charges against Ding Yunhe and took advantage of everyone's small-scale farmer consciousness to defraud Ding Yunhe. Ding Yunhe received the reward he deserved, and organized a farce to catch the rapist, falsely accusing him of having an affair with the landlady. Ding Yunhe angrily left this dishonest village.

Former Taiping Perak, General Liu Hedong lives in Baling Kedah with his daughter, live by running a small sculpture shop. One fine day, a wealthy businessman named Yang invited him to his boat, and pleads for him to copy the famous Yueyanglou plaques. Liu believes Yang is quiet sincere person , so he readily agrees. Within a day and night of hard work, he made replica worthy of the original plaque.

A young boy convinces a Buddhist monk to help him find the man who abducted his mother.

1981 film

A young teacher in the first seventeen years of the People's Republic of China approaches the teaching of her students with a humanistic philosophy, which leads to problems with authorities.

Ten years of turmoil have ruined the country and rocked the lives of the people. Not only were ideals destroyed, but souls crushed. Yu Ping, an overseas Chinese woman singer got married because of music, and her husband Liu Xin, who was the band conductor, was targeted during the Cultural Revolution. They were framed by Liu Xin's classmate, Fang Wei. Liu Xin was tortured and died tragically; Yu Ping took her child, Jingjing, who inherited the music gene of the couple. Li Dunhou, the chief violinist, who was 'sent down,' becomes enamored with Jingjing's talent and persuades Yu Ping to let the child learn music.

The first short film by Chinese sixth generation filmmaker Hu Xueyang.

In the dense forests and mountains of Southeast Asia, there is a mysterious "Golden Triangle", where the greatest evils of the world's drug underworld are hidden. An international anti-narcotics police officer, alias White Tiger, accepts a special mission to break into the Golden Triangle in disguise, and after enduring the perils of the primitive forests and maneuvering between various rivals, he finally unravels the dark secrets of the drug world and cuts off the claws of the Golden Triangle stretching out to the sacred motherland.

The rebellious rich girl An An (played by Yang Lijing) ran away from her father's pressure to force her to take college entrance examinations, and met a well-off gangster who had both died of her parents since childhood. The two went to Taiwan together, but were chased by the underworld on the way...