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Huoshan, a lesser-known village in Hubei, 1400m above sea level. Like your village, it is a village of old people and children. Some youths stayed here, Huobiwu, Li Chuanshi and the "blacksmith" are three such youths. For various reasons, they did not leave the village to find work. They stayed and did not have any desire to farm. The pig trade was the main enterprise in the village outside of farming. Pigs were bought cheaply from village families by pig dealers and then sold at a high price in the town for a profit. The summer of 2007 was like any other, but the monsoon season came. Soil erosion, landslides, broken roads and the sudden spread of the pig epidemic all killed the three young men's pig trading business. They rode back and forth on their motorbikes. Their pig baskets are empty.

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter is a shelter that was part of the network of temporary shelters used in China from the early 1950s to accommodate homeless people (the liumang 流氓). Changping Qiliqu shelter was used as a detention center in the 1990s, in particular, to incarcerate recalcitrant Yuanmingyuan artists, including Xu Ruotao. With its cold and soulless images, this video has a latent subversive tone, and a consistent vision of a hostile world.

The story of a boy from a poor mountain village who took the first step to success in life with the spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance.

A young journalist reflects on her own identity as she retraces the footsteps of China’s female teenage soldiers of The Long March and encounters untold stories of courage and hope in the face of extreme deprivation and brutality – a massive military retreat of more than 200,000 troops on foot over 12,500 kilometres that lasted from 1934 to 1937.

The science and education film "Abyss - The Essence of Cults" produced by Beijing Science Education Film Studio, with rigorous and realistic scientific spirit, various artistic techniques, through a large amount of scientific knowledge, vivid strength, and detailed information, comprehensive and profound It thoroughly analyzes the nature and harm of cults, and is a shocking and thought-provoking work of caution. The film uses a large number of little-known materials to disclose the truth of "People's Temple", "David", "Sun Temple", "Falun Gong" and other cult organizations seeking money and killing people Various means and the evil nature of cults are anti-human, anti-science and anti-social. During the use of a large number of high-tech means such as three-dimensional animation, it is a perfect combination of science, art and education.

Short film by Shi Qing.

Film by Wu Haohao

Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, illegally busking in China's big cities, trying to evade the authorities. Which he does, for a while...

This film follows four artists living on the margins of society whose passionate discussions belie their stark and impoverished living conditions. The subjects are performance artist Li Wake, painters Wang Yongping and Ding Defu, and poet Motou Beibei, who is hailed online as a genius despite working as a security guard. Overcome by ennui, and lost in the uncertainties of their everyday lives and their artistic identities, the artists express certain hopelessness.

Short animated film about political heroism.

2005 documentary about a buncha lgbt artists

short experimental animation

short experimental animation

Short experimental animation

Short experimental animation

A scene showing a soldier who, having committed a mistake, was being corrected by his senior, from the film, The New Guard Under Neon Lights, was taken out and re-edited; parts of the scene are repeated and some dialogue and movements are slowed down, but the entire scene with the complete dialogue has been retained in the video clip.

23-channel installation. Clips of news broadcasts of major TV channels from around the world were recorded at the same (local) time and collected from the Internet. The duration of each clip varies from 10 to 30 minutes with advertisements removed, but the news content remains untouched. The news clips are simultaneously displayed in the installation.

2004 Project by Zhang Peili

An animation based on reality. Maomao lives in an era when Coca-Cola is deeply rooted in people's hearts. This drink is not just a drink here. Behind it is the powerful economic and cultural background of the West. It represents the characteristics of this era very well. The materials of the "Beijing City" she built herself include old tiles from old houses that are about to be demolished, as well as scattered small toys, Chinese lucky cats and foreign "Garfield" that is well-known in China, many Coke cans, and Erguotou bottles, which represent the preferences of a specific group in China, and this is a large group. Maomao's summer records the development of the times, the growth of the city of Beijing, and the changes in people's perspectives in this era that are unconsciously and involuntarily changing.

China's rapid economic development has led to serious environmental pollution. Against this backdrop, Tian Guirong is a middle-aged woman from a rural village who is passionate about environmental protection and devotes her life to collecting used dry cell batteries. The camera follows her and reveals the reactions of her husband and other people around her, as well as the depth of environmental problems in China...

The story happens in present day, about some present people. What happens if a frustrated reporter met a prostitute who always through her weight around? We don’t know for sure. But in this film, we see friendship growing between two different women. I don’t know if this can be related to homosexuality, but we know for sure that love has no limits in front of destiny. Two different women, one is a reporter, the other is a prostitute, but they both have to struggle against their lives and destiny. The reality is complex, makes their lives joined up together and separated apart. The past and love are twisted, who will be the one there when she looks back? When they meet again, will the story starts again?

Xiao Qi, born male, harbors an unrequited love for A Lei, a male fashion model. To be closer to him, Xiao Qi undergoes gender confirmation surgery and secretly moves next door, content to silently adore A Lei from the shadows. But fate twists when A Lei unexpectedly falls for her—now living as a woman—igniting a relationship built on a fragile lie. Tormented by guilt, Xiao Qi conceals her past, fearing rejection. Enter Nai Xue, Xiao Qi’s roommate, who also desires A Lei. Consumed by jealousy, Nai Xue exposes Xiao Qi’s transgender identity, triggering A Lei’s disgust and withdrawal. Heartbroken, Xiao Qi pleads desperately to salvage their bond, only to discover A Lei has already moved on with a new girlfriend. Devastated, she vanishes from his life—a ghost of love sacrificed at the altar of truth.

This experimental film hybridizes narrative and documentary genres through intercutting techniques, entirely shot indoors with no exterior scenes. Its confined spatiality intensifies the tension between constructed fiction and raw reality.

18-year-old Hong’er, the spoiled daughter of a village chief, struggles with jealousy over her boyfriend Ziqiang’s growing affection for Yating. As tensions rise, Hong’er's feelings shift from hatred to love, leading to a tragic sequence of revenge.

The film predominantly features interviews with over a dozen documentary filmmakers and researchers, including Wu Wenguang, Duan Jinchuan, Jiang Yue, Kang Jianning, Li Hong, Du Haibin, Yang Lina, and Hao Yuejun. It provides insights into their representative works, delves into their life experiences, and explores their creative philosophies.

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......

Short film by experimental filmmaker Jiang Zhi.