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Through interviews with several representatives of Beijing and Shanghai LGBT groups and personal testimonies, a context is described that, although not as repressive as one might think, is marked by ignorance, tradition, prejudice, the indifference of society, censorship and lack of sex education, among other aspects. In the hope of changing their sexual orientation, some people go through the conversion therapies. The documentary gives voice to a minority group in search of recognition of their rights and their freedom.

Lak Boh Ki is a Hainanese term for "Drop Nowhere". A one-and-a-half year old baby who dropped his plush Merlion toy onto the ledge outside of his HDB apartment window tries to get it back, and in the palm-sweating process reveals the contemporary Singaporean landscape made up of foreigners.

A documentary film that chronicles the experience of two homosexual couples in China, as they cope with the pressure of starting a new family in an environment in which family values and duties are rooted in strong traditional beliefs.

FIRST International Film Festival Xining 2018

Some of the events themselves are forgotten, and they are excluded from copyright, and they are the co-creation and the word-of-mouth of people in a certain region. These events, which have little value but are attached to the landscape and time and space, should have a reserved meaning. When the scene of the event is gradually changing, will the event itself die? As an individual, I may be able to record something.

The film "Afar's Distance" tells the story of a poem-loving Alang who graduated from a middle school and worked as a language teacher in a middle school. Because he couldn't play his poetic talent in middle school, he resolutely decided to bid farewell to the hustle and bustle of the city. He went to the remote Erlangshan Primary School to teach. In this elementary school with only 16 students and 1 principal, Li Alang began to implement his "poetic cultivation" program.

This documentary concerns the growth of a particular child. Dajun and Xiaomei are a pair of siblings who live with their father and grandfather after their mother went to work in Shanghai. Without the presence of a motherly figure, both children gained more playtime but there seemed to be a conspicuous lack of motherly love and care. Nontheless with her frugal grandfather, their farm animals and the talented craftsmen of their hometown, Xiaomei's childhood has just began.

A film between two countries. A film between two realities.

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

In the summer of 2017, two Chinese filmmakers start their journey with four mobile phones, and they go through 16 countries from France to Damascus. As far as their concerned, they are trying to present the current situation of refugees’ life in the “post-refugee era” in Syria. It gives rise to reflection to the right and wrong in the “refugee crisis.” It is also lead people to find out a different Syria and a different Muslim World.

People say what happened in dreams is opposite to that in reality; however, sometimes, reality is like a dream, as well as a mirror image: although it can present a reversed reflection, it cannot reverse time. Like an island where its time and space are stagnating, a current moment may seem familiar in dreams.

Everyone has childhood memories of a zoo. The 1950s were a paradise with monkeys riding bicycles and lions jumping through rings of fire. Animals of today are placed in an artificial, ‘virtual’ natural environment, and are subjugated as ‘humanised’ animals. They lose their natural habits and become physically and mentally warped. As we see elephants dancing, does this signify happiness, anxiety, or a bottomless pit?

This harrowing tale follows a university student who escapes his impoverished mountain village, only to grapple with destitution that forces him into part-time jobs to fund his education. Amidst this struggle, he encounters a man who ignites an all-consuming love—a connection so electric it consumes them both. Yet, their respite is fleeting. In a society hostile to their love, they endure vicious mockery from peers and societal condemnation, culminating in the student's expulsion. His aging parents, heartbroken and disillusioned, grudgingly acquiesce, their hopes frayed but clinging to a thread. Tragedy compounds as the lovers, desperate to survive cascading calamities, begin withholding painful truths and even resort to selling their bodies. Each betrayal deepens their despair, eroding their bond until they teeter on the edge of oblivion—casualties of a world that weaponizes love into a death sentence.

Family: an eternal pendulum between escape and return, repression and fleeting joy. Our emotions linger in the liminal—ephemeral, half-detached. We grasp at shadows, mistaking artificial bliss for happiness, self-deception for identity, never certain where the performance ends and the soul begins.

With the grace of Shinseon, 'Go Gyo-ram' acquires the form of a woman after long training. Then , one day, while spending peaceful days helping the villagers of 'Go Gyo-Ram' who went down to the village with the herbalist 'Unsaeng Jang', whom they met by chance, a plague begins to circulate in the village due to a conspiracy of evil spirits to absorb human spirit. In response, 'Go Gyo Ram' treats the villagers with all their heart, but she is misunderstood as a witch because of her evil plot, and her life as well as her world are in danger of destruction...