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A struggling couple in a Shenzhen urban village find hope in a friend's investment fantasy — until job loss and deception shatter their fragile relationship.

Late Qing era. Reporter Dai Xue uncovers a ring using zombies to traffic young girls. The mastermind is the Seventh Princess, a Ming descendant raising funds to restore her fallen dynasty. She turns General Habu into a zombie weapon. After the plot is exposed, she unleashes the vampire William. Habu regains his mind and fights back. At the critical moment, senior brother Shi Gandang arrives, and together they bring down the princess and William.

In a world where the dead can be reborn through artificial intelligence, a resurrected woman discovers her existence came at the cost of countless lives and must choose between reuniting with her lover or ending the deadly cycle that created her.

This short documentary flim was shooted in January 2026. It showcases the latest experiences in Xizang, China, of nine youth from six countries across four continents: Nepal, the United States, Russia, Italy, Morocco, and Cambodia. The film highlights the nine young people's visits to cultural heritage preservation sites like the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, the development of photovoltaic power stations and green new energy, modern residential architecture and agriculture, ecological conservation efforts for snow-capped mountains, glaciers, and plateau lakes, high-speed rail and expressways, the transmission of intangible cultural heritage, and the ordinary yet fulfilling modern lives of everyday people.

A phantasmagorical odyssey into the mind of an alienated amusement park worker's search for acceptance across Shenzhen, Paris and Beyond.

After studying abroad in Cape Town, a young filmmaker returns to Chongqing, navigating the complexity of modern life in China and fragile family ties, where grief, memory, and longing surface amid distance, silence, and change.

Luo Rong'er, an illusion created by the Nine-Tailed Master, begins to question her purpose after meeting the righteous constable Mo Chen. As their bond grows, she must choose between obeying her creator and protecting the man she loves.

In a shifting, dreamlike world, a young girl begins to experience a changing body and the strange feelings it brings along.

In a riverside town, student Hong finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, turning to her foster mother and boyfriend for help only leaves her even more adrift – until she witnesses a seemingly remarkable act of divine intervention.

During the typhoon season in southern China, a middle-aged film director Yang Pingdao suspects his wife is having an affair. He attempts to follow his wife in secret with the help of a young intern girl to collect the evidence. Ironically, it is he who begins to have feelings for the intern girl. As the journey continues, the intern girl is still not sure what is happening. Perhaps the whole plot is an act for "A Yang Pingdao Film," and maybe without her knowledge, she has actually been one of the characters from the start.

Set against the Yi cultural backdrop, the film follows a young girl, Li, struggling between traditional beliefs and personal awakening. Through surreal imagery and Yi rituals, the film explores the complex relationships between women, nature, maternal identity, and mythological narratives. It questions whether women are destined to be bound by “motherhood”, seeking alternative possibilities within ancient legends.

In the twilight of the Tang Dynasty, a legendary spear master who once bathed in blood must take up his broken weapon again – when the ghosts of his past come hunting for him.

After leaving her lucrative job to pursue writing, An Nuoxuan is left broke and heartbroken, only to reunite with Su Ziqiao, a man she once helped and who has secretly loved her ever since. As cohabitation turns from conflict to romance, misunderstandings and family pressures test their bond—until they choose each other and finally realize both love and their dreams.

It is the fate observed by a mere handful, including the one in whose fate lies. If everything were predetermined, perhaps that would bring some relief. Yet, those who dare to tread the diverging paths of destiny are often the ones hailed as "heroes".

A woman attempts to reconcile with her identity as she delves deeper into her violent, overbearing paranoia, colliding with her attempts to find herself or take comfort in memories past.

Each year, over 10 million students enter Chinese universities. Their first lesson is two weeks of mandatory military training, from combat drills to patriotic education. With youthful zeal, under state direction, they begin learning to become warriors, marking their first political baptism into adulthood.

The film tells the story of Lin Wan, who, after a car accident, signs a "rebirth" contract with a "messenger of hell" to infiltrate a labyrinth of memories and hunt down her "devilish" husband. As the world collapses, she discovers the secrets behind the revenge game.

In the capital city of Beijing, a middle school is about to hold a flag-raising ceremony. However, the flag raiser, Feng Xiao, is is struggling with a growing urge to step down. Unfortunately, this is not a gentle winter for him...…

Where Comes Mulan follows artist and filmmaker Tianyi Zheng as she returns to her ancestral village in Huangpi, Wuhan, where the legendary figure of Mulan is said to have originated. Beginning with intimate conversations with relatives and local residents, the film traces how Mulan has been remembered or forgotten in everyday life, only to collide with how local authorities have transformed her image into a powerful tourism brand. Through walks across tourist sites and abandoned ruins, Zheng questions the gap between lived memory and official narrative.

In his later years, the sculptor Lu Hengsheng returned to his hometown and held a desert sculpture exhibition. During this time, he recalled three behind-the-scenes stories closely tied to his artistic career. On the day his final piece was unveiled, Lu Hengsheng drove deep into the desert and mysteriously disappeared...

A photographer travels the Tibetan Plateau, using free portraits to bridge cultures and find himself.

During the Cultural Revolution, armed clashes between rival "rebel" factions in Chongqing were the most severe in the entire country. Excluding those killed in battle, as many as 1,800 people died in mutual massacres alone. It has been almost 60 years. An SWYC (Structure Wave Youth Cinema) production.

Summer 2025, Italy, Hou begins her diary. Combining her notes and elegant still shots, she documents the places, the strangeness, and all that distances her from her native China. Her mother’s voice, her orders, and even the ideograms evaporate: Cassine, cinema and English become refuges, new spaces for creation, memory and life.

In Comedy Family Style, stand-up comic Helen brings her son to Beijing to connect with their roots. He wants Wi-Fi and boba—she wants gratitude. Between culture clashes and punchlines, they confront the gap between love and perception, asking: How do we know we matter to the people we love.

A girl and her troubled aunt drift through Chongqing's forgotten edges, where ruin, memory, and a fragile hope collide at the edge of night.

Produced and broadcast by China Media Group, this series adopts an international perspective to showcase the dramatic changes in the lives of ordinary Tibetan families across education, economy, healthcare, and cultural heritage. It vividly presents the transformations of Xizang Autonomous Region over 60 years, particularly since the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, countering external false narratives. The series has received awards from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

Fragmented coastal scenes scattered across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area: a security guard on duty at a Shenzhen beach, a woman posing for bridal photos along the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, children playing in the shallows beneath a bridge, the transparent glass interior of the M+ Museum, the rooftop of Sky100, the upper reaches of the Pearl River, and the waterfront of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, among others. Most of these filming locations were chosen from lists of photogenic sites popular on Xiaohongshu (RedNotes), i.e. places that have become “internet-famous” through a single viral post, attracting waves of photographers and tourists. Yet the artist deliberately diverges from these original images, turning away from the sharply defined details and edges of these celebrated sites. Instead, the camera retreats into marginalized zones at the limits of visibility, areas suffused with blinding halos of light.

Notes Unheard follows a young Chinese violist studying in the UK while remaining closely connected to his father in China. Through calls, rehearsals, visits, and repeated conversations, subtle shifts gradually emerge within their relationship.

Town of violence. Girl of love. Truth of lies. To protect her idol, she allies with a marginalised youth, only to learn that the only truth about love was its own fiction.

A Hi8 video recording of a journey through Mongolia and China as part of the author’s own photographic project, “What Remains”.

Ming unexpectedly becomes pregnant in a dull relationship, and her life seems to have come to a sudden halt. She embarks on a journey to the China-Vietnam border alone, encountering gods and ghosts.

Returning to my long-left hometown for my father's surgery, I wait with my pregnant sister in heavy silence. As time stretches, buried scars resurface. Set in a small town in southern China, the film meditates on memory, family, and the quiet ache of unspoken emotions.

The result of years of fieldwork and research, "The Daoxian Incident" examines the causes of armed struggle and mass killings in Dao County, Hunan, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Between August 13 and October 17, 1967, 7,696 people were killed and 1,397 were forced to commit suicide. An additional 2,146 were permanently injured or disabled. Most of the victims were labeled “class enemies” and belonged to the so-called “Five Black Categories,” while at least 14,000 people participated in the killings. Through interviews with survivors, participants, and family members, this documentary reconstructs the complex sequence of political campaigns that culminated in one of the bloodiest episodes in the PRC's history.

Echoes Between Seeing is an ongoing audiovisual experiment which combines 16mm travel footage shot in Spain and China with AI image-to-image processes, creating landscapes where analogue film grain meets fluid, generated forms. The original footage is continuously reprocessed, generating imagery that exists between documentation and hallucination.

The life of an elderly man at an East Chinese river basin is disturbed by the arrival of his niece. She is looking for a conversation about the past. Together, they drift over the murky river and face unspoken secrets. Once, the aunt set out to find the lost son and never returned. Does the river carry memories, or is it muddying them up?