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During the tumultuous period at the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu led the Zhou forces to attack the Shang Dynasty. After several clashes, the Shang Dynasty found themselves retreating as they faced the relentless assaults of the Zhou military commander Yang Jian. King Zhou of Shang was furious and sought a way to counter Yang Jian's influence, offering substantial rewards. However, the strategist Shen Gongbao advised against it and suggested recruiting skilled leaders. The plan was to bring the Meishan Seven Heroes into the fold.

Hao Hai embarks on a treasure hunt with his friends to fulfill his grandfather's dying wish. They search for a hidden treasure inside an ancient Yuan Dynasty painting. Along the way, they uncover a touching love story, find a priceless artifact, and grow personally, undergoing meaningful transformations.

An older man, around 50, looking for a mistress.

In their final year of high school, Lai Xia falls in love with a boy from the neighboring class, whom she associates with “Mr. Red,” a recurring figure in her dreams. But on the very day her exams end, Lai Xia suddenly realizes that she may never have truly loved him.

After learning that his father Liangzi died unexpectedly, Mi Xun finally returned to his hometown and faced his family and friends again. Mi Xun felt deeply the alienation from humanity and the loss of himself.

This is the story between a poacher and a righteous boy who wants to protect the forest.

The film tells the story of Lin Yuan, a young man who grew up in a single-parent family and wanted to start a business and counterattack, but always ran into walls everywhere and was in debt, accidentally discovered a clue to an antique teapot worth 200 million, and therefore unexpectedly returned to 1998 to start a counterattack life.

The children's film "Little Girl Like A Sunflower" is adapted from the novel of the same name by author Shua Shua. Set in a school in Jiangsu, this contemporary coming-of-age story focuses on youth mental health and the cultivation and practice of core socialist values. It tells the story of Mo Li, a “child of the stars” (a term often referring to autistic children), who transfers into Class 5(3). With the care and support of her homeroom teacher, Ms. Milan, and her classmates, Mo Li gradually emerges from her lonely world through a series of heartfelt school experiences: the "Ten O'Clock Appointment," sheltering flowers in the rain, an open class on love, saluting the national flag, a long rope of friendship, and the dream of the sunflower.

"The river Lek reminded me of the river Xiang in my hometown Changsha. I had not been home for 3 years and one of the connections with home was the poems my dad wrote me every day via WeChat. The rivers seemed equally significant for the people in the Netherlands and in Changsha. They are both a romantic connection and an important symbol of daily trade and industry. In a Wechat session my father and I simultaneously read three pairs of poems we wrote for this occasion, he by the Xiang and I by the Lek. Giving the words to the waters that ultimately will meet somewhere in the ocean. The video shows fragments of the performance which took place at the same time in Changsha and Culemborg in June. The full-length documentation is presented as a dual-screen video installation. The three poems written by me can be found on the page "Writing"."

Wang Si Ling, a pregnant painter who moves into her dream home and hires a confinement nanny after winning an award. As Si Ling begins her one month in confinement, inexplicable incidents start mounting in the house, threatening both her and her baby.

Xu finds himself trapped inside an iron box after awaking from a coma. As the box opens, he finds himself in a tropical forest together with other survivors, all not knowing how they ended up there. Not only do they have to face various crisis and attacks from beasts, they also have to uncover the truth behind it all so as to escape from danger.

On the night of the Chinese Ghost Festival, Dong Xian controlled Chaoning's body through the mask to help him face himself bravely and completed a homosexual confession. It also awakened Yunan's awareness of his sexuality.

From the music of French composer Evgueni Galperine, Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan crafts a story that harkens back to the phantom rides of yore as he constructs a visual poem befitting the propulsive composition. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

In the early 1980s, orphan Tang Dacheng is gifted a bicycle for his hard work—a simple treasure that stays with him through life’s changes.

After escaping from her hometown Cangshan to do house cleaning work in Shanghai, Xiaomei returns home. With distanced relatives, an estranged husband and a mother with Alzheimer's, she has mixed feelings. And she suddenly notices that her hometown has been re-named.

Lin and her brother Lai stepped into no man's land again - they want to search for their missing father. When heavy sandstorm attacks them, Lai is wounded. He persuaded Lin to walk alone, with limited food and water. Lin needs to find a way to save her brother, and also herself...

A group of university students planned a special graduation trip, ready to embark on a tense and exciting adventure, but by mistake, they enter a forbidden island inhabited by giant beasts.

A general is instructed to impersonate Song Yuan and infiltrate the Shen household to intercept military intelligence. In order to do this, she must ask the daughter of the Shens' hand in marriage.

The melodies of your travels are resounding once more, Travelers! Let's return to the start of this endless journey together and relive our precious memories through music!

In the urban city of Jiangcheng, a woman's body was discovered in a flowerbed next to a construction site. The deceased was in her twenties, beautiful and fashionable, yet her death was shrouded in mystery. Criminal Investigation Team Leader Yan Yan was assigned to investigate this unidentified female corpse case. The investigation revealed that the deceased had been robbed of all her money and valuables, making it impossible to determine her identity. After several twists and turns, the officers ruled out Zhang Jun as a suspect and arrested the prime suspect, Liu Simin. However, after Liu Simin confessed, the meticulous Yan Yan discovered further inconsistencies, and the true culprit was finally apprehended.

Ten-year-old Yang-zi steals her mother's diary to find out the truth about why her mother abandoned her.

Last Casting Call focuses on actress Chen Meng, who has been drifting for five years but has not achieved much. She is disheartened and prepares to leave Beijing but she suddenly receives an invitation to audition for a new director’s debut film. Could this be the “big break” she was waiting for? Burdened by her past experiences in the Chinese film industry as well as the feeling of incongruity after years of growing up and studying in the US, Chen Meng decides to give her acting career one last try.

During the rice sowing season, Jun, a young Catalan of Chinese origin, works as a seasonal worker in the Ebro Delta. This ancient labour will make him confront his own roots and the distance that separates him from his family.

Small-town kid Boy K is fleeing his job at the duck-down factory when he stumbles into a motley crew of urchins boogieing on the pavement for likes and shares. This is gaga dance: a form of spirited freestyle championed in China by ‘the king’, Pink Hair. Boy K quickly becomes the rising star in Pink Hair’s crew, amassing thousands of subscribers. Will he win the affections of fellow gaga dancer B Girl, or cause trouble in his gang – and the gaga dance underworld beyond it?

Shao Wenhan, a small-town girl, carries her mother's lifelong hope: to escape the small town and start a new life in the big city by learning to play the pipa. But Wenhan, with the pipa in her arms, doesn't believe in her mother's dream. Amidst the struggles of both mother and daughter, she secretly strives to find a new path for herself...

In a vast expanse of desert sands two men exchange health tips: “Wild boar meat is good for your lungs,” says one. “Wild boars and groundhogs,” replies the other. They press bunches of straw into the sand to combat the desertification and sandstorms here in the Tengger Desert of northwest China. A little later we see other people, men and women, doing the same work. In this immense swathe of sand—the Tengger is about the size of the Netherlands— their labor looks like a Sisyphean task. Perhaps it is due to the resulting sense of pointlessness that the conversations start to take on a more serious tone. One of the two men tells of how his wife left him, and how he had to raise his child alone. He once envisioned a different kind of life, but things go as they go. “Our fate is like an unbreakable wall,” he observes, with a resigned tone.

The husband dreams that his wife leaves him, while he tries to save the relationship. Once awake and sleepless, he finds himself faced with their unchanged life, without understanding whether what has just happened is reality or just a dream.

Six teenage girls in China learn to ride horses, compete in matches, build friendships, and deal with loss, all seen from a mother’s eye.

In southern China, the demolition of a small village went quite well. Two kids happened to get an abandoned wood-carved earth God. The story went on like a metaphor when the kids walked a long way, trying to return it although the temples around have no interest in this wood-carved earth God. When back home, the kids were told this wood-carved earth God was worth the price of a can of coke. Finally, with an innocent heart, they bury the wood-carved earth God into the ground, praying for a better future for the land they are going to live with.

A perfumer and a little tyrant... these two women learn together what courage and justice is.

When the mysterious little mermaid encounters the legendary sea monster, secrets hidden deep beneath the ocean begin to unravel. An exhilarating and thrilling ocean adventure is about to begin...

Wenhui believes he was born to be a goalkeeper, even though nobody remembers how he first got into football. The odds of saving a penalty are against him, but he knows that when confusing events happen, there is comfort in the structure of the game.

A data center in the mountainous southwestern province of Guizhou is at the heart of his newest work, presented through a panoramic sweep around the facility’s surrounding rural farmland. In a play of contrasts, the camera drifts across blades of grass, meeting local farmers, tourists, and animals along the way, all to a joined hum of whirling hard drives and chirping insects.

Just because she arrived three minutes earlier in the world, the elder sister of the twins was separated from the other, and was sent thousands of miles away from home. The elder sister (Chan) was forced to leave their hometown, and struggled for her life in Chengdu. The younger sister (Juan) stayed in their rural hometown and continued her routine life. However, two girls who looked exactly like each other actually pursued distinct paths in two entirely different cities. Their experiences of growing up as women developed in parallel.

The violent explosion broke the tranquility of the bank. A group of gunmen drove with stolen money and the police who heard the news chased on the highway. There was a fierce exchange of fire, and the car overturned and caught fire. The remaining gangsters abandoned their cars and fled frantically. The elite SWAT team who received the warning - the Black Panther SWAT team rushed to the scene of the incident; on the other hand, the coerced SWAT team member Jiang Miao learned that the mastermind behind the robbers was It turned out to be the murderer who killed his brother who was also a policeman. After subduing the gangster, Jiang Miao resolutely went to the hidden stronghold of the mastermind behind the gangster...