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Born in a remote mountain village, Lan is a transgender woman missing home but unable to return to it.

One night in Songzhuang, a young thief named Xiaochuan meets a mysterious man. The beautiful night turns a simple theft into a walk around town with little talking and sometimes just silence. Upon separating, Xiaochuan secretly returns the wallet he stole from the man, along with his phone number, in the hopes of seeing him again. What he doesn’t know, however, is that the man already sent him a message long ago…

YAN Difficult separation entangled with spirituality and Intuition, Germinating in the reality of atheism cry The soul of the universe in the experience of slowly melting At this very moment, the joy of escape indicates that in the past and the future EVOLVE Real standard forgotten? Waiting for death ... There are a lot of problems, There are a lot of answers ... Destiny’s belief, Walk in the air every corner of suffocation Why do we choose a quiet, the joy of choice, to choose the movement of a moment Forget the depths of the sea, hush ... EMPTY Illusory dreams ,City of memory Sleeping in the restless,Belief in the dust false or true of the world ,dreamful reality

A labourer from Anhui has been working in Beijing. In June of 2000, he went back hometown to get married. The day following the marriage, he brought his bride to Beijing and spent a night there. On the way to visit his sister, the couple was accommodated by the police without reason. From then on, the bride disappeared, and he began his search for his wife.

"Xi Hai City" of male leading role is a looming demolition in the villages of the youth of the world confusion about the future, he wandered around every corner, in the village from the lock the door when you leave, to go to the toilet, to meet others, to buy breakfast, until get to the sea met a woman finally clashed with her and tried to a relationship, finally dull left, alone quietly walked into the sea.

Short film by Cao Kai

Short film by Liang Yue.

Traditional opera is well known in Fujian, and the women clown (played by men) of Gaojia Opera are the most famous. This film records the last days of Master Ke Xianxi, one of four most famous 'clowns' in China, and his caring for the existence and development of Gaojia Opera in modern times. It depicts the major challenges facing Chinese traditional opera today.

On the Tibetan Plateau, the majestic Potala Palace rests on endless snow-capped mountains. Snow flies above the mountains, the cold wind is bitter, and the melodious singing echoes in every corner of the valley. A certain highland was covered with snow, and there were branches in the snow, which were Tibetan antelopes lying in flocks in the snow to avoid the wind and cold. After the heavy snowfall, the head sheep was the first to stick out its head, and it screamed into the air, announcing the arrival of the sunny moment to the companions.

3D rendition of traditional Chinese ink and was animation techniques.

The voices in this film are all conscientious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their ethos is: “Where affairs of state are concerned, we cannot stand idly by and watch.” And yet the reward for their concern is a lifetime spent in political turmoil, years of periodic intimidation and surveillance. This film illustrates the perils of seeking freedom in a time of darkness, in a time when critique requires transformation. It depicts the harsh realities faced by three generations of activists—young, middle-aged and elderly– and allows us to better understand their anxieties, hopes, despairs and above all, their persistence.

A village in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing has been home to young rock musicians and bands from all over the country since 1997. From 1999 to 2000, there were hundreds of people and more than 30 bands. The art and life style of this generation of young people starts from here...Sun Zhiqiang surpassed the status of an ordinary documentary worker, shooting as a member of the underground rock scene to the most calm and calm appearance of the original ecology of underground music. The film seems to record only one thing, that is love. Since Sun Zhiqiang came to Beijing from Xinjiang in 1997, he never stopped observing and filming the lives of Beijing rock bands and marginal art youth. He has adopted the closest and unique perspective to silently capture the era of cultural turmoil. A generation of youth movements destined to change the direction of future culture.

The documentary about Zhu Xiaoguang, a man came to Beijing with the dream of being a director, he used his DV to record all these happiness and sadness in Beijing...

Using the same interview techniques applied in her highly successful Speaking Up (2005), Tammy Cheung turns her attention from Hong Kong to Mainland China. In Speaking Up II, she interviews around two dozen students from a well-respected primary school in Jiangxu (near Shanghai). They are asked to express their views on different topics such as personal issues, family, gender, society, and more. Presented in a skilfully edited montage and intertwined with footage of their daily lives at school, their answers highlight the changing face of today’s China.

Since the end of eighties, Hong Kong has been through tremendous changes -- re unification with China, economic downturn, political reform, etc, have all greatly affected our way of life. In the film, about sixty people are invited to talk about their views on several major socio-economic and political issues.

It has been forty years since the Sanmen Gorge project, a great dam high across the Yellow River at Sanmen Gorge, was completed. It's construction has had a large impact on the environment and the people. Among these are conflicts with local farmers, resettlement and life in exile of villagers, flooding and economical development.

A woman and a man stroll through a zoo. They chat about God and the world in Serbian. They part, meet again, look at animals and other zoo visitors.

This film follows the hardships Lahu girls face as they come down from the hills to enroll at a Chinese primary school. The Chinese students laugh as the Lahu girls who finish last in races and on tests. One girl falls ill, and is sent home; another finds out her mother has run away. The girls' teacher feels frustrated and hopeless; the school principal wishes he had never admitted them. Can the Lahu girls make it in modern-day China? And what price will they have to pay? Do Chinese schools empower or assimilate China's minority children? "Children of Blessing" takes a controversial stance on this ever sensitive question.

Look at impoverished mountain village government officials. Shot over the course of four years, it reveals the tension and complexity that comes with the job of village cadre.

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......

I am trying to use a microscopic narrative to sample and magnify the seemingly entirely unrelated cases of Chongqing Steel and Windows to the World for visual analysis. As I see it, the polluted smoke created by the factory is the smoke of modernization mythology, or maybe the fog of history and reality…. These manmade landscapes have obscured the pursuit of collective modern ideals in pre-socialist China and the painful price paid and hard lessons learned. The massive steel town is the stage for collective sleep paralysis and the march of history. Among the crowds that flow ceaselessly through Windows to the World, it is hard to cover up the massive changes that have been wrought on every Chinese from their faces to their souls by the crazed materialistic pursuits of the post-socialist era.