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What is going on in Chinese elementary schools where students go to school with red scarfs? The film captures the campus life of students and teachers in detail, such as gossiping in teacher's rooms, fighting among students, students being punished, school gatherings that are overly orderly, military like class recitals, and teachers who are already deeply captivated by the school system. Strangely, the images of the Chinese elementary school seem very familiar to viewers. Except for the few scenes such as kids pledging themselves to the Communists and dancing with red outfits, the teachers' attitude, school system, and students, seem to capture those of the Korean elementary school. Because of such similarity through the film, we Koreans will naturally reflect upon our memories than try to understand Chinese culture. One may ask what elementary school education has done to us. Interestingly, we Koreans can look at ourselves us through China.

Hu Jie short film.

This love story is set against the backdrop of the mountains and great plateau of Tibet. By focusing on a military commander and a female soldier during the 1950 march by the People's Liberation Army into Tibet, the film chronicles the hardships of the time and the hope and patriotism of the new China.

Qiu Sheng works in Beijing. He accidentally saves Tao Zi, a female university teacher, at work, and she loses her job. Out of gratitude, Tao Zi asks Qiu Sheng to be her babysitter. Although the two have different life backgrounds and disparity in social status, they gradually establish a kind of trust and a kind of friendship in the process.

On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous.

Like most local young women, Xiaohua met Chunling, a young man from another village, through a matchmaker and chose a good day to get married. After marriage, they live with Chunling's parents. The young couple fall in love with each other and give birth to a baby boy. According to the requirements of the national family planning policy, first-born males in rural areas cannot have further children. But farmers have their own ideas. A family should not have only boys, but also girls. If there are no boys, they will do everything possible to have boys to continue the family line. Therefore, the township government sends a family planning team. At the risk of being fined, Xiao Hua becomes pregnant again. When she’s in labor, Chunling finds a midwife. They successfully give birth to a baby girl. To avoid being arrested, Chunling takes initiative to pay a 3,000 fine. The couple leave their children with family and go to work in Beijing. (Shot from 1996-2007)

Director Wei Xing independently filmed the documentary "Jesus Bless You" in 2002, as both director and cinematographer. The film won the 10th Beijing University Student Film Festival Student Unit Professional Group Documentary Excellence Award (the best vacancy), the second Beijing International University Student Film Festival Silver Award in 2003, the 2003 Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Competition. the 2003 "Jesus "Bless You" is collected by the University of San Diego Library.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's first feature film. Our Love is a half-documentary, half-narrative telling the stories of Xiang Xiang, Ping Er and Raorao. Xiang Xiang is pretty and attractive, Ping Er smart and funny, Raorao honest and passionate. Physically speaking, they are male; but psychologically they are not. Issues such as homosexuality, transsexuality, and cross-dress are all touched upon in the film. Those who are different from heterosexual people are by no means perverts; their presence throws light on the ignored violence which has been taken for granted in the heterosexual world.

2003 film

Titi, an Indonesian domestic worker, cares for her Taiwanese grandmother, who is obsessed with the past, while Titi dreams of a future with a man she sees daily. Despite their differences, Titi realises the grandmother’s complex love and support during difficult times.

This is a documentary about some actor performing in a reverse performance at a gay bar in Chengdu. In reverse, men perform women's roles in women's clothing. The reverse actors in the film all have different sexual orientations from ordinary people. They are the marginal group of the marginal group gay. They performed roles different from their own gender on the stage, lived differently from ordinary people on stage, and pursued their freedom and happiness in their own way.

A small rural township called Red White was seriously devastated by the May 12th Earthquake in China 2008. A 62-year-old Taoist survived even though his temple was largely torn by the disaster. This documentary tells the story of how the Taoist practices the widely believed Chinese traditional religion and the local people’s daily life during the township’s post-quake reconstruction.

The Documentary record the life of a panda, Ying, and his Trainer, Bai, in their small residential room inside China Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe. They both share a life behind bars where the outside world is out of reach and only accessible through a television.

The gambling between two men leads to shooting and killing.

A parody short reworking Chen Kaige's film THE PROMISE.

A film about a popular neighbourhood in Beijing, and what happened there in relation to the 2008 Olympic Games. Qianmen is a popular neighbourhood in the very heart of Beijing, just south of the Tiananmen Square. In the perspective of the 2008 Olympic Games, the city decided that the six hundred years old neighbourhood has to be “rehabilitated”. It is now in the line of fire of the promoters, and the 80000 people living there are facing drastic (and dramatic) changes. The film follows the rapidly changing life in the neighbourhood for more than a year and a half, from one reality to another, completely different one. Little by little, fragment per fragment, the film is drawing a portrait of a neighbourhood, recording memory of a soon disappearing reality. A story of China today.

This correspondence between Spanish auteur Jaime Rosales and critical chronicler of contemporary China Wang Bing is divided into three short films each consisting of documentary observations.

Several young people shared their thoughts on life and their dreams for the future. One of them expressed his dream of becoming a punk rock artist.

This is a poem that asks about human nature, the world, friendship, love and faith.

A young woman receives a series of letters from a friend that provokes thoughts on the passage of time and how it affects the way we view the world.

XIONG,Jie-feng is naive but not easily-influenced. Different from other Chinese young people who prefer working in the cities, XIONG decided to go back to his hometown, Pingzhai Village in Yunnan Province, and started to plant the "Red Rice Seed," a kind of ancient species. The so-called organic agriculture has had an age-old tradition in China. The skills have been passed from generation to generation. This is the major reason why farmers connect to the land both historically and emotionally. The "Red Rice Seed" can only be planted in a traditional and organic way. If the plantation was to succeed, the problems resulted from scientific fertilizers and the overuse of chemicals since the 20th century can all be resolved.

Concert video of Jacky Cheung.

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A naughty boy had to stay in a young female teacher's office, receiving her separate and silent education. Finally, he decided to grow up as an obedient good student.

China today resembles night - filled with imagination. For a long period of time China was a country that did not like to discuss darkness or night. For decades the "Red Sun" was the most direct form of allowed imagination. Under today's sun office buildings and construction sights dominate one's vision. But in the evening everything changes, and you can see the spiritual life of the people. Evenings everywhere provide us with an opportunity to see ourselves, as through a mirror's reflection. In the evenings humanity is always more sensitive and vulnerable. In its darkness we are cloaked in intimacy and obscurity. All through the day, people work hard to put on and maintain appearances, and daytime resembles a stage on which people perform. Yet during the evening we are able to wander backstage.

New Hefei was done in the winter of 2007/2008 during a stay in China for several months through a series of photographs and prepared in the spring of 2008 in the provincial capital Hefei in black and white on 16mm shot. Hefei has an extreme economy growth rate and is one of the fastest-growing mega cities of the new China. The conglomerates from private and state-dominated industry dominated the economic growth and repeated this in the Chinese provincial city. Currently the process of urban transformation has been completed here, as in other urban centers in China. The presentation of new urban areas is an important issue in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese films.

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way. (Storyville)

Story of a sad love story lasting for half the century, letting out the cry for the union of the two banks of the Taiwan Strait.

This film is about China's first completely volunteer run rural school. The school, situated in Woyanglu of Anhui province, consists of one hundred volunteer instructors. Each volunteer has given up the security of a steady job and the material comforts of city life to become rural teachers. Their altruistic mission is carried out independent of all authorities.

The village of Haiyang on the Liaodong peninsula boasts 1,200 hectares of beaches rich in clams. At low tide, thousands of people walk nine kilometers there and back to collect clams. This documentary records their labor.

An essential background for Qiu Jiongjiong’s recent A New Old Play, this dazzlingly playful short documentary remixes a Sichuan opera company’s dress rehearsal for its tribute to Qiu Fuxin, the director’s grandfather – who was a legendary opera performer of 'clown' comedic roles, and the real-life subject of A New Old Play. This exuberant celebration of a not-yet-lost past re-activates the memories of ageing, but irrepressibly vital, stage artists.

Luo Liang, a young man trying to meet the expectations of family and work, has come to town looking for something better but is unsure of his lot in life.

Pan Tianshou was a Chinese painter and art educator in the 1960s. He studied Chinese traditional painting and built the foundation of Chinese traditional painting education. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution until his death in 1971.

The photographer Yilin grew up in a country village; now she lives and works on her own in the city. Increasingly unhappy, she decides to return to her village. But not even in her childhood home does she find the serenity she longs for. On the contrary, she is forced to face up to painful childhood memories and come to terms once more with her mourning over her father’s death. The situation is made even more distressing after she meets a strange couple who live nearby: the mother keeps her child blindfolded and tied to a chair in the stall.

A couple hilariously attempts to create and submit a home movie to win the prize of Singapore's Funniest Home Video.

People's Republic of Zoo is inspired by George Orwell's 1945 classic novella Animal Farm. Orwell described his book as a satirical tale against Stalin. Sun Xun's animation is at once a critique and a celebration of political allegory, as well as an exploration of myriad animal forms and the equally numerous ways in which humans have represented them. Xun produces his animations by hand, often in gallery spaces while the artist is in residence, drawing on the wall. He also creates his works with Pi Animation, an animation studio in Beijing which he founded and runs. His recurring topics are the contradictions and gaps between official history and personal testimony.

In an auction, Ye Ye spends 50,000 yuan on an envelope from an air crash dating back more than 50 years. Inside the envelope is a letter that was never opened before. The letter indicates the whereabouts of a box of gold bars. This action attracts the attention of three men: one is Ye Ye's ex-boyfriend; another is a a young man from Taiwan; and the last is the owner of a stamp shop. All three want to get this letter from Ye Ye, so a battle of wits and courage begins to take place.

Ge Bu, a poet aspiring to write an epic poem; A-Ying, a blind singer who traverses the countryside; Beima Nui, a shaman who recites traditional scribes depicting traditional farming methods. They live in Hani village with poverty and happiness, helping each other achieve their dreams. They connect with their ancient culture and their dreams by singing the songs and reciting epics passed down from their ancestors.