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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.

A street photographer mouse meets a clock cuckoo bird, and they help each other find their sense of belonging and fulfill their dreams.

From the perspective and tone of youth, this article describes some gray emotions that the post-2000s generation did not embrace, as well as the spiritual state and life exploration of the youth.

In the late 20th century, the need for a new radio and television tower in Pudong led my grandfather and his colleagues to undertake a feasibility study in Shanghai. As a result of Chinese Economic Reform, my hometown's urban landscape has rapidly evolved, changing daily throughout the modernization process. Today, it looks completely different from the city I knew as a child—there, yet not there. At times, I find myself losing track of time, drifting through memories that circulate and return.

Li Hang and Liu Zhengyuan’s seven-year relationship, which began in college days, ultimately comes to an end under family pressure. Disheartened, Li Hang seeks a new start in Beijing, only to be plagued by a persistent toothache that traps him between painful memories and present realities. An encounter with a dental intern seems to offer a glimmer of hope in Li Hang’s life. Yet light can quickly fade in the concrete urban jungle.

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.

"Small Town Tale" aims to portray the plight of marginalized groups and ordinary individuals in a small town. It explores the various pressures faced by the protagonist in society, provoking thoughts about his ultimate fate.

Mr. 9.6, who was distressed by his terrible illness, attempted to cure it by seeking help from traditional Chinese medicine, the Institute of Brain Science, and a nature spiritual training class, but it seemed to have had little effect. However, Mr. 9.6 met a girl in a nature spiritual training class who was the "suitor" of his beloved virtual idol. In a certain space, Mr. 9.6 met Miss K who looked exactly like the girl. In the conversation between Mr. 9.6 and Miss K, the truth of the disease was revealed: this is a desire problem that all people in the cyber era/network society have to face.

A wall estranges two neighboring women, yet the desire for touches transcends the concrete divide and reaches the unknown other — through an intricate maze of sounds behind the wall, they expose their entangled existence to each other, until one's sudden retreat, haunted by the spector of fear for intimacy in the postmodern era.

At the tender age of ten, ZiLin found faith, conjuring a Little God of her own. Throughout the bloom of her youth, she was steadfast in her promise to this divine companion, striving to be a mother of virtue. Yet, when matrimony beckoned, life's harsh realities and familial pressures compelled her to relinquish the life of a second child they could not provide for.

Li Simiao, a girl who lives in Bali Village, Chengdu, China, has never traveled abroad. But she is convinced that she is a true Parisian at heart. And many others like her share the sense of "hometown disorder"...

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 protagonist does not want to inherit the solitary and selfish character of her father. One day, the young protagonist realizes that her father has gradually infiltrated her with this annoying character, so she decides to break away and move in the opposite direction and try to get along with her friends. At some point when she grows up, she suddenly finds that she has become what she once hated. In the end, the protagonist finds a new way of self-exploration deep within himself.

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.

This is a poignant tale about home as belonging, which explores the profound metaphorical significance of father and mountain. A father and his son reside in the mountains, where the father works as a stonemason, shouldering the weight of their family’s needs through arduous labor. Intrigued by what lies beyond the mountain, the son incessantly queries his father. Each time, the father’s response is the same, “Beyond the mountains, lies another mountain.” As the son matures, he ventures away from his father and their home, seeking his own path in a distant city beyond the mountain’s grasp, unraveling life’s meaning. After years of relentless pursuit and self-discovery, the son gains deeper insight into his father’s life and comprehends the significance of mountains to him. Filled with newfound certainty, the son returns to the mountains, where he answers his father, “Beyond the mountains is another mountain!”.

An old man accidentally throws away a precious item as he is moving out of his home. An observant raccoon rescues the memento, and the two share a special moment upon its return.

This film tells the story of a father (the director himself) who was trapped at home during the COVID-19 epidemic. In order to improve his relationship with his son, he took the initiative to bathe and wash his hair. The 3-year-old son has an "Oedipus complex". He is too attached to his mother and inexplicably resists his father, which makes his father a little jealous.

A short war film.

Ziheng who has severe HIV-phobia pleads with his boyfriend Chendong to take an HIV test, and they argue furiously about trust issue in the dormitory, with Ziheng trying to force a blood drawing. Meanwhile, another roommate is on his way there ……

Young female writer Wen Yiqing received a writing invitation from Shanghai. Olivia Qiu, a 32-year-old teahouse owner, hoped that Wen would write a novel based on her story with her late mentor, Mrs Choi. Three years ago, Mrs Choi was diagnosed with cancer. Olivia regretted her years of estrangement and dropped everything to rush to Mrs Choi’s bedside. They stayed together for a year until Mrs. Choi passed away. After that, Olivia received a mysterious box filled with postcards and letters she had sent to Mrs. Choi in the past, as well as reply letters that Mrs Choi had never sent… Wen, as a story recorder wandering in the unfamiliar city, met a stranger with very different personalities but sympathetic to each other. Her heart rippled and had a wonderful resonance this past event…

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.

There’s a third-rate planet (earth) in the Raniakhia supergroup; there is a city on the planet; there is a small restaurant in the city; there is a little girl in the restaurant; and this little girl is the protagonist of the new documentary “I” and my friends made. But one day, “I” and my friends watched the newly cut film.

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...

The film conveys the theme of love through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemma, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.

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 disillusioned homebody reluctantly joins his mother for a hike, leading to heated arguments and their separation. Lost in the wilderness, he discovers he's living in a virtual world, confronting his nihilism head-on.

Control steadily slips away in a metropolis trapped by the relentless grip of pollution. As the city evolves, its citizens undergo a subtle metamorphosis, both physical and mental. an untouched maiden mysteriously conceives new life. while the city may appear ordinary to the majority, this solitary wanderer meanders through the restrictions and smog-laden streets, in pursuit of the essence of human existence.

China is suffering from severe soil erosion and coastal flooding. When water covers the homes of ordinary people, they are forced to accept the fate of moving away from their hometowns. xiao yu' s grandmother just passed away, and he is wandering alone in the nearly abandoned village. he is full of confusion about the current future and doesn't know where to go.

A couple met again after separation. Under the strange atmosphere, the two began to search for the lost memories.

In some city down in the southwest of China, it was a muggy summer day chen yaochuan, a sophomore student, had to go through his first medical exam for pilot recruitment. but on that very same day, his older brother chen fujiang tragically ended his own life. right before chen yaochuan’s mock college entrance examination, his mom, zhou ying, insisted he go back to school and get ready for the tests. but when he returned, his teacher broke the news that he didn’t make the cut for the pilot program. so, chen yaochuan chose to study at home on his own accord.

November 2022, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, a mutual friend of ours, B.A.T., a sound and performance artists, and director of experimental art venue FA ZHAN in Chengdu, suddenly disappeared. Lost his track of all contacts. Until December, he still didn’t show up at Shanghai for the 5th Cement Park Live Art Festival. We tracked threads of info from fellow performance artists’ of his whereabout, until Covid ends and his art space was shut down······

Set amid the outsized period sets of Hengdian World Studios, the largest film studio in Asia, the film follows Iris, a young actress searching for her voice as she prepares for the leading role in a Chinese historical epic. Couched in the conceit of a “making of” special, In Her Time depicts Iris behind the scenes, rehearsing lines and describing the artistic process of coming to inhabit her character. Throughout, she deliberates over the demand the film places upon her to master performing pain and victimization. Iris’ Version introduces new content shot from Iris’ iPhone camera, intercutting the “official” footage with reflections on the filmmaking process from the actress’ perspective.

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

Using raw images as an exploration of a mixed feeling of loss, loneliness, and longing.

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.

In unspoken times, a man and a woman promised to die for love. Who knows, the woman died and the man did not. After the woman's body was moved home by the man, she miraculously came back to life and called herself Shinigami. The man used the power of Shinigami to alter the life of others, but broke the rules. At the last moment, the woman brought the truth...

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.

Paul Celan, a poet who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, ultimately met a tragic fate, taking his own life in the Seine River in 1970. More than half a century later, a young poet named K sits at her desk, engulfed in despair. Suddenly, she hears a rose humming. Responding to the rose’s call, she embarks on an extraordinary journey—moving between daily life and dream—to witness the destinies of poets who have fallen throughout history. A poet’s life may vanish, but poetry endlessly circulates, and a life beyond humanity continues to sing.

Mother and daughter, who live in the same room, spark a fire during their argument and eventually reach a settlement.

A strange cupping mark suddenly appeared on Jinmei's back, growing darker and darker, while the dampness inside her body worsened.

The Last Mongolian Horseman follows the life of a nomadic shepherd family across four seasons in the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Through quiet observation and poetic imagery, the film captures the rhythms of traditional Mongolian life amidst growing pressures from industrialization and cultural displacement. As the family tends to their animals and sustains their ancestral way of life, the documentary reveals the ecological and spiritual fragility of a vanishing culture. This intimate portrait becomes a powerful meditation on identity, survival, and the unyielding connection between people and their land.

Blending real family archives with fiction, Flying Fish tells the story of self-discovery through childhood portraits, cross-dressing, and imagination. In a dreamy photo studio, a group of crocodile companions dance freely.

While preparing for her film school portfolio, Tong accidentally witnesses a secret deal about funeral affairs. Meanwhile, she finds the inseparable connections between a missing social deviant and a suicide at her school. These coincidences let Tong make a horrible guess. Destined to grow up, she bids farewell to her childhood and steps into adulthood.

This film is one of the video documents of the retrospective exhibition "Qingming Project 2013-2024".

The girl waits for her mom every night, but one day her mom didn't come back. Maybe she will never come back...

In the 1990s in Nanjing, high school students Wu Nan and Chen Xiao forged a profound friendship. However, when Chen Xiao was about to leave Nanjing for family and academic reasons, Wu Nan began to question whether his feelings for him had gone beyond friendship. After Chen Xiao's grandmother passed away, Wu Nan's emotional struggle felt more intense. He eventually chose to confide in Chen Xiao through an email. When Chen Xiao returned to Nanjing, the dynamic between the two became complex, leaving Wu Nan confused and uncertain. Meanwhile, Wu Nan's relationship with Xiao Jing also faced its own set of challenges. On the day Chen Xiao left Nanjing, Wu Nan, overwhelmed with emotion, shed tears of farewell, marking the end of their story in the early summer.

A feature horror film.

Wulong City was divided by a mountain river until the first bridge was built in 1980. In local areas there is a mania for the endless connection of the two coasts.