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All phenomena are without self; people suffer because of their expectations of themselves. May we be liberated from the self and realize our true nature.

In a Shanghai park, Shandong elder Lao Li, driven by loneliness and a need for assistance, befriends an elderly gay couple, only to gradually uncover the nature of their relationship.

A boy, weary from relentless bullying at school, steps into his house just as rain begins to fall. The moment he crosses the threshold, he transforms into a tree-like figure. His mother, without a word, approaches him – an axe in hand…

This observational documentary focuses on the former residence of Hai Zi, a Chinese poet who rose to fame following the cultural revolution and committed suicide at 26. With his residence turned into a pilgrimage site, it films the poet’s mother living there and visitors of varied backgrounds and purposes.

The film tells the story of the late Yuan Dynasty, when many warlords rose up and established their own factions. Hua Yunlong, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang, feigned surrender to Chen Youliang, leading to a fierce battle with veteran minister Zhang Dingbian, who was dismissed from his post. Later, Chen Youliang nearly died, but was rescued by Zhang Dingbian at the mouth of Jiujiang, a story of a loyal hero.

A poor young couple learned that their unborn child was stillborn. When they tried to abort the baby themselves, they discovered that the baby still had vital signs...

Just as she stopped making choices, she felt she could be in a “bilocation”！ After the 3-year pandemic, her perceptions began to reboot alongside the outside world. Together with her, the camera observes herself with dual and opposing identities. She was torn between the traditional Sea Maiden and a modern museum curator, unsure of which identity she wanted to embrace. Cognition is personal. Drawing from her personal memories, she curated beliefs and worship, scientific truths, and historical wonders to create a space for discourse. As the chaos world occurs, she came to realize that perhaps the museum is closest to ‘experience’, while the fishing village can touch the ‘truth’.

In the chaotic and intermittent narrative, we enter a grotesque world and gradually understand the content of the film. That is, it is easy to cause carbon dioxide poisoning in low places, which is also the director's personal experience.

With her husband passed away and her daughter working far away, 55-year-old retired Zhao Na felt confused about her life. She decides to leave Shanghai and embarks on a self-driving journey to revisit her second hometown, where she went to Tibet with her parents when she was a child. However, the place has long been changed and there is no belonging. Zhao Na is searching for her peace of mind during the journey.

Du Liniang and Chunxiang went to the backyard to play, admiring flowers and longing for spring, feeling sad and tired while sleeping. In the dream, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei were both in love. The next day, Liniang returned to the garden to search for traces of love, and the lingering memories and desolate scenes made her mix with sadness and joy. In the end, lovesickness turned into illness, and he passed away filled with longing for love.

This story is applicable to today's war-torn world: we have different skin colors but the same color soles and souls. Why can't we stand side by side on earth instead of trampling each other?

The ancient craft of horsetail embroidery empowers Shui women while connecting with the global fashion scene.

On Halloween night, Xiao Wei's mobile phone charging cable suddenly failed. He was anxious about battery power and had to find a charging cable immediately, but he couldn't find one either at home or in a convenience store. In desperation, Xiao Wei thought of his roommate, a girl he had been following and peeping at. He managed to enter the girl's room and charge his mobile phone as he wished, but as the girl suddenly came home with her boyfriend, Xiao Wei was forced to hide in the closet. Xiao Wei in the closet witnessed the passion between the girl and her boyfriend and also watched the girl die tragically. What was even more frightening was that the charging cable—the murder weapon—had Xiao Wei's fingerprints on it.

A queer filmmaker meets an underground bookstore owner, a dead poet statue, a boy he crushed, and a Chinese friend who also drifting away from home. Through these fleeting encounters, he gradually remembers why he is on this journey.

During their stay in Beijing, two Uyghur girls attempt to navigate reality through their fantasies. Drinking, dancing, binge-watching classic rom-coms—these activities help them forget the cruelness of the world. Just when they're searching for the meaning of love, they meet an angel in their dreams, but the rendezvous doesn't go as expected.

Chengdu Rainbow is a nonprofit organization focused on the LGBTQ community — originally, it was known as Chengdu Milk. The film showcases the organization’s restructuring, efforts to build itself up, and subsequent decline. The main subject of the film, Matthew, is the founder of the organization and a member of the LGBTQ community. His initial motivation for founding it was to help LGBTQ individuals facing mental health challenges, but ultimately he also left due to his own mental health struggles.

The struggles of a small-town woman grappling with her child's organ failure, exhausting all efforts to fight for her child's survival. Concurrently, a young delinquent, confronted with the profound questions of existence after his mother's brain death, resolves to honour the meaning of life by donating her organs.

Late at night, a 45-year-old rural mother searches the city for her missing son. Exhausted, she must face her worst fear when informed that a body matching his description has been found.

Marseille, Spring. Two Chinese women spend several days together in a 19th-floor apartment overlooking the city as they both look for direction in their lives.

The People’s Commune Assembly Hall was an iconic site for political gatherings and propaganda during China’s national collectivisation period between the 1950s and 1980s. Its physical space, the projected space and the reconstructed filmic space are juxtaposed, amplifying the inherent narrative capacity of the commune hall.

A short war film.

"Sovereignty at Stake" is a groundbreaking CGTN documentary that explores the complexities of the South China Sea issue, addressing global inquiries on this contentious topic. Through individual narratives and authoritative interviews, the documentary offers valuable insights into the historical background, legal principles and geopolitical dynamics.

11-year-old Yangyang goes to visit his father in his mother's new red car, but he needs to keep mother's affair a secret. Seeing his father's deserted farm, Yangyang begins to realize his father's desolation and the uncertain future of his family.

On the eve of the adult ceremony, the girl fled from home late at night to fulfill her wish of “rebelling once”. She encountered a middle-aged woman in a tunnel on this rainy night, and then a crude emotional game started. After this chance reunion, they bid farewell to each other.

After the end of a relationship that went nowhere, a woman's complex emotions seem to be amplified, and in the midst of insomnia she feels she can touch the many subtle voices...

Compromised by a finger injury, Xiao grapples with intricacies in her sexual life, provoking a profound sense of remorse towards her girlfriend. Driven by an earnest desire to ameliorate their shared experiences, she diligently seeks to redress the situation through meticulous preparations. Despite her assiduous efforts, the intricate of pleasing and appeasing takes an unexpected backfire.

In ancient times, Zhuanxu separated the path between heaven and earth, thereby changing the state of coexistence between humans and gods. This event was later referred to as Juedi Tiantong. After an indefinite period of several billion years, the separation began to reunite with the awakening of human consciousness and the communication channel was re-established. The result will either bring a harmonious integration of life or lead to a catastrophic event akin to the Tower of Babel. Open end.

A one take recording of a family's visit to the bamboo green at the foot of the Helan Mountains.

Shot from the perspective of urban strollers, this short film uses symbols rooted in childhood and fragmentary information from the self-media era to construct a heterotopia in the city and the mental experience of the internet generation.

Will you still remember me when I leave this world? A group of ordinary elderly people who have reached the end of their lives, in order to prove their old age and achievements, they come together to do something so that we can remember them for a longer time. They never met in the first half of their lives, with different professions and life trajectories, but for the same purpose, they formed the oldest men's relay team in China to participate in the world's top veteran athletics championship and ultimately broke the world record!

An independent filmmaker meets Xiaojie at a LGBTQ event. She keeps following and recording Xiaojie's life, until she dies in an accident.

As China's aging trend becomes more evident, the issues facing older people are gaining attention. Once active participants and builders of society, older people are increasingly marginalized in today's world. Under societal pressure, many feel discomfort with contemporary life. This film aims to draw attention to older people and discuss the transition of old and new, giving strength to viewers as it's a natural law that everyone ages.

This anthropological practice focuses on cultural practices within specific cultural contexts through the concept of the “cultural chain.” Centered on nomadic herders in Fuyun County, Xinjiang, it examines modernized lifestyles on the southern slopes of the Altai Mountains, exploring contemporary cultural transformation through visual anthropology methodologies.

The film takes Guangzhou-based independent music label "Qiii SnacksRecords" as a lens to show how this mosquito-sized label stirs up the city’s indie music scene through DIY music practices, rebuilding connections between people and with the "nearby."

Chinese opera film.

"A-Da-Sao" is a term used by the people of Southern Fujian to describe women who enjoy joining in the fun, are kind-hearted, willing to fight for justice, and are carefree. Ata Sao, after rescuing an injured notary and returning a lost child, becomes embroiled in a child kidnapping case, unfolding a comedic yet heartwarming and touching urban story.

As Song reminisces about the past, long-lost memories begin to surface. It’s about his best friend Zhao, who has been searching for, and deciphering, the hints Zhao left for him after his sudden disappearance, and when he comes to his senses, Zhao is already dead. When he comes to realize, Zhao is dead. The secret between them gradually emerges.

Henry suffers from severe insomnia, increasingly disturbed by visions of his own doppelgänger. Seeking help, Grace, a skilled hypnotherapist, guides him deep into his subconscious, where Henry confronts his silent, ominous double.