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This video records those appealers' New Year Eve in 2004 in the petitioners' village, Dongzhuang, Beijing, who are homeless or hard to go back home. It tries to face their life and record their experience, listen to their voices, learn the grass roots level in the Chinese society and approach a real, myth-like China.

2003 Project by Zhang Peili

Early film by Cui Zi’en.

experimental animated short

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.

A ordinary village in Jiangxi Province, is the hometown of the director. The youth are heading for the city, the author is anxious of his hometown to be changed too dramatically in the coming days. He records down the precious shots of the villages in its four seasons, and then turns to those youth struggling in the city: their worries, their joys and their missing of the hometown. In the film, the author tries to explore the meaning of hometown for those being forced to look for new chance in the city by the market, although his story is not ending......

Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Gin Gin's Bookstore is the one and only bookstore dedicated to the LGBTQ community in the Chinese-speaking world. The director explores the lawsuits and the discussion this iconic space has ignited, as well as its place in gay culture: hosting numerous public forums, book signing and promotional activities for queer films and television shows.

The desire of a 7 year old boy to be a member in a Chinese opera, his hard life at school and acceptance of his society.

A documentary pastiche about living in contemporary China, constituted by images of immigrant workers’ on-street KTV singing; open-air community dancing parties; the campus life and extracurricular activities of high school and college students; the job of killing mosquitoes done by children of migrant workers; fragments of gay love stories; the wedding of a film director; as well as a farmer coming from their hometown to Beijing, kneeling on a flyover seeking justice. This documentary film is intended to present a kaleidoscopic view of everyday life in contemporary China.

Adil Hoxur, descended from a line of Dawaz tightrope artists, performs nightly with his troupe in China’s Taklamakan desert, among the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people seeking religious and political autonomy. Shot over four months, this experimental documentary takes shape as a travelogue, ethnographic visual poem, and advocacy video for the preservation of a traditional art form. - MoMA

Shitou is Nuonuo’s girl friend. They have always loved each other. Nuonuo is the little sister of Mingming, who also fell in love with Shitou after their first meeting. Enmity began to develop between the two sisters.

In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, where four million people depend on it as a source of water. Songhua is a portrait of the varying people that gather where the river meets the city, and an ethnographic study of the intimate ways in which they play and work.

A couple twins of Azrael,who are in love,make a ablution for the people died in the age of automobile at a abandoned garage-dump.They try to make the Deads understand the different meaning of death.But what people expect,is to come back to the world of living.They always try to elope back to the life while the twins kiss themselves.But they fail all the time.Having no alternative,they start to learn from the twins,how to surpass the power of death "silently".Finally,together with the twins of Azrael,they stride in the brand new world of life.

2000 film

The film records the daily life of four generations of a Xianbei nationality family in northem shaanxi descended from clan lords. Integrated with the Han majority, they live a simple life. The documentary reflects their religious faith and spiritual world and their surroundings. On the edge of modernity, when they face frustration, hardship and loss, they interpret life in a unique way. Their attachment to the soil, religious worship and commitment to destiny all tell us a story about deep, loyal and truthful sentiments.

Shortly before he died, he had dated his old lover once again.

A Yi and A Bing are both working in the same company, living in the basement 4 of a luxury building with both business and residence attributes. A Yi went back to his hometown at Sichuan before Chinese New Year, so he could earn double wage for the Chinese New Year duty. The movie records the whole process of him back to home. His home is at a mountain, has elders and kids at home, has many trivial things waits him to settle. A Bing married when he is forty. After finish the marriage outside Beijing, he came back to company. He has no feel to his newly married wife, A Jiao. He still thinks of his ex-girlfriend who has cohabited with him for 3 years.

Documentary film about a private club owner, an American actor, a beauty salon owner, and a taxi driver trying to pursue their individual dreams in Shanghai.

Tsai Chin unveils her music universe once more. The veteran Taiwanese chanteuse who has been active on the music scene for a quarter century performed some of her best loved songs live at Hong Kong's Coliseum during January 24-28, 2007. Now the live recording of this memorable concert is available as Blu-ray karaoke disc. Tsai devotees will be pleased to find such classics as "When Will You Return" (Track 33), "Evening Fragrance" (Track 7), and "Kiss Me" (Track 8) on this 34-track release. She also performs "Honey Sweet" (Track 19) and "Moon Representing My Heart" (Track 20) originally performed by Teresa Tang. The sound of one of Chinese music's legendary voices comes alive again on Tsai Chin In Concert Hong Kong 2007.

HIP HOP is a music which humorously expresses negative energy, it is popular yet it is belongs more to the public; Hip Hop comes from the street, from the lower class, it is marked by proletarian. HIP HOP is a kind of accusation, is a means to express one' s depression and refers to social reality. HIP HOP Project, endeavors to combine HIP-HOP with different cultures and to give HIP-HOP realistic meaning, to let HIP-HOP that comes from the common go back to ordinary people, go back to doubting and questioning reality. Hip is butt, Hop is a move. Hip Hop is the dance of moving one' s butt. HIP HOP Project makes everyone (not only the young ones) interpret Hip Hop through their bodies, feel and relieve in Hip Hop and outline the true contour of a city.

Bao, a blind woman, sings every day on the streets of Peking to make a living. She is caught up in an endless lawsuit in the hope of having some money reimbursed while doing her best to rear Ming Ming, her mentally ill daughter. After a car accident, and to her mother's great despair, Ming Ming decides to drop out of school and become a street artist. History seems to repeat itself.

The emotional story of two men who are in love. He lived with "her" for many years. Because of various social pressures, he decides to find a woman to marry, so he posts "personal ads" all over the streets, and "she" follows silently to tear up those "personal ads" until one day an actual woman appears.

Obscure Ah Nian film. Doctor Li Hong has a husband and a daughter in high school -- this looks like a happy family, but in fact, Li's marriage is in name only. Li's husband has confessed that he has a lover, and Li has suffered through and coped with it. After Li's daughter finds this out, she decides that she wants to save her parents' marriage...by jumping off the building.

YB BOX reveals the unique culture of Korean autonomous prefecture in Yanbian, Jilin Province, China. It narrates the journey and unforgettable experience of three young beatboxers as they travel from Yan Bian to Beijing and Shanghai to support one of the worldÂ’s top beatboxers, Killa Kela. Yan Bian is the capital of beatboxing in China. This relatively small city has a vibrant creative culture, where beatboxing, DJing, breaking and other forms of hip-hop thrive. While the main sounds are drum-beats, the masters can add a range of other sounds until a magical and unbelievable effect is created. Born in the 70s in New York, beatbox arrived in Yan Bian via the internet. Led by Gui Jing, the film shows how creative culture can emerge and grow in the most unexpected places and reveals the energy, curiosity and innovation of ChinaÂ’s youth.

A boy with a hidden life and a mother desperately trying to reach out.

A boy returns to Singapore from his studies in Europe, two days before he is enlisted into the army. A sensitive depiction of an 18-year-old’s struggle between national duties and personal liberty.

20 days after the horrible earthquake in May 12th, people who suffered just stood up after the strike. A mother who lost her son, a student who lost his school, a wife who lost her husband and an old lady who lost her home. For these people, the real pain was just coming.

"If the old doesn't go, the new never comes" recites a teenager hanging out near a demolition site in the center of Chengdu, the Sichuan capital in western China. In Demolition, filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki deconstructs the transforming cityscape by befriending the migrant laborers on the site and documenting the honest, often unobserved, human interactions, yielding a wonderfully patient and revealing portrait of work and life in the shadow of progress and economic development.

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.

University is a transition to society, where one experiences the changing dynamics of human relations and personal growth, while facing struggles and self-doubt. Young men Houjue and Lissa, passionate and dedicated, form a close bond but are overwhelmed by financial difficulties. To help Houjue achieve his dreams, Lissa sacrifices herself by trading with Zhao Ding, but the situation takes a dramatic turn when Houjue discovers the truth, leading to a tragic confrontation.

Male A’s girlfriend was drowned, and he seemed indifferent to his girlfriend’s death; his good friend male B went to visit Male A immediately after returning from the army to comfort him, and at the same time reluctantly asked: Why didn’t he reply to his letter later?

Short film by Liang Yue.

Xiao Xue is nineteen and lives in a town in northern China. During the day she works as a sales assistant in a fashion store. At night she accompanies her boss on his various social engagements and activities. She makes herself useful as a hostess when he invites his friends out, joining him on outings to karaoke bars and nightclubs. Xiao Xue sees all of this as an opportunity to improve her standard of living. But then, out of the blue, she falls pregnant and this changes her life in an unexpected way.

Short documentary about people involved in Cosplay.

This film is an observation of the public space of the areas that link the city and village. It tries to show the great changes of this age. Because of the rapid change of land ownership, the relationship between men and the environment is changed also. Furthermore, the film tries to capture the vivid expressions and appearances of the people in this public space.

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.

A low-budget independent film made on 35mm, that was screened only four times in a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set in the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism (Chinese Independent Film Archive).