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Rebellious teenager Wang Ququ is transferred to a new school, unhappy at home and at school he gets in trouble again and again.

Photographer Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, fearlessly documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption through poignant observational visits with the scavengers who live and work in the dumps. While China's economic ascent commands global attention, less light has been shed upon the monumental problem of waste spawned by a burgeoning population, booming industry, and insatiable urban growth. Award-winning photographer Wang Jiuliang focuses his lens upon the grim spectacle of waste, excrement, detritus, and rubble unceremoniously piled upon the land surrounding the China's Olympic city, capital, and megalopolis, Beijing.

My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to transform himself from a man of the ‘old society’ to a man of the ‘new society’. As his son, I started investigating his ‘history before 1949’, which he had kept away from me. This film documents the process of my investigation over twenty years.

The story tells the story of the Monkey King who thought he could return the love debt of the spider spirit and the reunion of the spider spirit, but was caught in the huge plot of his enemy, the six-eared macaque. What makes Wukong unable to free himself is that the descendants of the king of the king of the sharks, the shark demoness, who had been destroyed by Wukong, even took advantage of the six-eared macaque in the shark country to retaliate against Wukong, and the six-eared macaque secretly teamed up to plan a series of shocking plots to start a series of revenge against Wukong.

The film takes place in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, and part of the plot of the film is based on Mr. Dingmudi's real life experience in Gannan Prefecture, artistically recreating the scenes of the Chinese, Tibetan and Hui nationalities living in harmony under the inspiration of the Party's national policies, and it's a work reflecting the progress of unity of all nationalities.

In 1930s Shanghai, a young woman is forced to take extraordinary risks to survive when her life is threatened by a murderous policeman.

All Chinese production by the NCPA (China National Center of Performing Arts)

Joey, a talented video consultant, shares the art of marrying a man through her romantic 'faux' wedding videos, which are screened to young singles all over Singapore. The idea of fantasy and reality is blurred when she falls madly in love with a handsome music teacher from Taiwan who appeared with her in a landmark wedding video. While Gin claims his affection for her was strictly for the video, Joey pursues him to make him see that she is his true bride. Will her relentless drive to restore the happiness and joy she once knew be her ultimate failing and undoing?

19-year-old Lily returns to her seaside hometown Beihai, a city neighboring Vietnam. The unexpected sudden arrival of a level-eight typhoon named “Mountain Spirit” delays her departure from the village. Lily runs into her childhood classmate Howe, who is himself possessed by his own troubles. They travel into a mysterious mangrove forest. The typhoon ends, and a secret emerges…

An old Chinese legend tells the story of how, centuries before, the people were living happily till the day a devil appeared and took away the patriach. In her great distress, the princess used all her intelligence to save her father and protect the people.

Filmed over 17 years across Southern China, this remarkable film is an intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of Li Ermao, a transgender migrant worker, who performs in clubs looking for love and acceptance. Living as a “ladyboy” with a string of boyfriends, she faces repeated encounters of prejudice and aggression with equal measures of resilience and vulnerability. With a flair for the dramatic and her budding career as a popstar, Ermao’s story takes many dramatic twists and surprising turns as she moves between the urban and the rural, searching for identity and fighting for a better life.

Despite the increasing number of people entering the field of documentary filmmaking, historical subjects are less popular due to limited materials and the difficulty in handling them. Hu Jie has chosen to stay in this field and work hard. "I know that shooting these historical subjects is very dangerous, so how can you ask others to do it? It can only be their choice after they have seen your work." Since 2014, due to health reasons, Hu Jie has not been actively making documentaries. This year, in response to an invitation from the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, he still provided the film "A Sidelight of the 1968 Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement." Over the past three years, he has primarily engaged in printmaking, producing about 70 to 80 pieces, in addition to many small print bookplates.

Gulu is a village of Yi people, located beyond the cliff's edge in Sichuan, China, there is no electricity. The villagers used the lianas and Heaven-Ladders to climb up and down the cliffs like a monkey. They had hardly contact with the outside world until a mule-horse-trail out of the rocks in 2004. The substitute teacher Shen is the only teacher in the Gulu Primary School and has worked over 20 years. Shen would really like to become a real teacher, but he has just a middle school education. One day, the young man Bao who called himself 'Don Quixote' came to Gulu because of the lianas and Heaven-Ladders. He felt, Gulu was just his utopia. Since then Shen's fate has changed dramatically.

In his third film on life and work in the (once) heavily wooded north of China, Yu Guangyi (Survival Song) follows the lonely San Liangzi (46), who for the past ten years has been in love with a woman who doesn’t like men much. Intimate and revealing, but never rude. A moving and human portrait of a group of unemployed and above all lonely men who stayed behind when their wives moved to the city looking for work. They worked in the timber industry in the province of Heilongjiang, but deforestation has taken its toll. For instance, we see 46-year-old San Liangzi. Twelve years ago, he divorced his wife and became unemployed. For 10 years, he has had an eye on Wang Meizi, the only unmarried woman in the area. But the love is not mutual.

Chinese lesbian couple Sesame and Bean had to travel thousands of miles away from home to get married and again to get pregnant as both are illegal for same-sex couples in their own country. Now they are determined to create a more rainbow-friendly society for their babies.

The story tells the story of the developer Anton who wants to demolish the old house of He Qianqian's grandmother into a villa area. In order not to let Anton to demolish the old house, He Qianqian returned to the old house with his classmate Jiang Jiaqi in the summer vacation. The first love Wang Xiaofeng and a group of junior high school students accompanied her to come up with a way to invite the ghosts to scare away the developers, but then things are confusing. The strange events happen one after another, people are worried, what unknown fears are waiting for them...

In a small-town high school, days before the college entrance exam, teacher Chen Jun finds out that the father of his most promising student has died in a mining accident. Telling him—or not—bears heavy consequences.

Lucky baby from a young boy aspired to become a chef, after growing up, he was alone to leave his home town, came to the "Xiangmantang" chef school to learn cooking, this is where he realised his dream, however, when he really stood in front of the cooker, only to find that the gap between the reality and the imagination is so huge, the fledgling himself there are There are too many things to learn. Lucky baby diligently followed the headmaster of the bitter practice of cooking, with the passage of time, but gradually is also considered to be accomplished, in a cooking competition, he won the first place, got to participate in the Food King Cup God of Cookery Competition qualification, which also means that, Lucky baby will meet more and more powerful opponents. Will he be able to beat them?

A young male student develops a very close relationship with a teacher when both outsiders become ostracized from their town.

A fable of fear and rebirth that unfolds through a man’s pursuit of a mysterious white bird, Valley of White Birds utilizes a hypnotic, engrossing style of animation to encounter the magic that exists all around.

A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 years old with five sons, the grandfather insists to live by himself in the rural area of Hebei

Mi & Xiao Rou are now in a relationship and must face the reactions of their loved ones when their relationship is exposed.

A young and beautiful police women who assigned as a undercover cop to find missing girls in one high school.

This short film explores same-sex attraction within the context of power relationships in contemporary China where oppression stems from the socio-economic inequality that leaves the disenfranchised pining for what they cannot have, as a young chauffeur finds himself attracted to his contemptuous and callous boss – without a single word being exchanged between the two men.

Following a girl's release from an asylum, she is reunited with her older sister and together they return to their abandoned family home. However, the two sisters harbour a dark and tragic family secret, which begins to unfold after their return.

A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which the maverick indie filmmaker continues to refine his techniques and concerns shown in his previous “Wheat Harvest” and “Fortune Teller.”

Because of a severe smog in the whole country, respiratory diseases rate is soaring. One night, after venting his desires with self-pleasure the main character receives a phone call from the man who had been constantly pursuing him with no results, and asks him to go out for a drink… After struggling for a while, the main character decides to go out. However, a familiar figure appeared in front of him, this this figure suddenly disappeared…

Documentary about Chinese higher education: the pressure to get into state-sponsored schools, and the marketing of private colleges that may not provide the education they promise.

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It is a hot summer in the Chinese south - Luo is HIV positive and lonely. Until he finds a companion at a family dinner, a distant cousin.

A martial arts film about the crimes surrounding the salt trafficking organization Yeombang's Ark and the activities of the Geumui Committee to punish them.