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The disastrous Sichuan earthquake is the backdrop to the drama of a little girl who, despite finding herself living with strangers, creates a symbiotic and life-saving bond with her grandmother.

After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.

A former boxer who quit the ring after a family tragedy forbids his gifted son from fighting. The son secretly competes and wins, forcing father and son to confront grief and finally reconcile.

University lecturer Xiao Renyuan returns to his hometown to attend a funeral and, along the way, encounters civil servant Leng Chunhua, who is heading to Shierpan Village for targeted poverty alleviation work. Inspired by the efforts of the poverty alleviation team, the traditionally minded Zhang Gui undergoes a change in mindset: adjusting agricultural structures, embracing technological innovation, and joining forces with impoverished households to fight the battle against poverty. Meanwhile, with Chunhua's help, the emotional rift between father and son is gradually healed.

This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the children of migrant workers. Every year when new pupils arrive, Ms. Yuan Xiaoyan, who has worked in the school choir for eight years, would choose a group of music-loving first-years with solid musical foundations to join the choir. A new group of children join the choir while those who have advanced to the second year have to discuss with their families their future choices. For choir members, their music career in middle school will eventually stop due to the pressure of high school entrance examinations and the inevitable parting. But along this journey accompanied by music, they have been savoring the joys and sorrows of their youth, burying them deep in their hearts, and transforming them into growth-promoting nutrients.

A decade ago, Qiaoqiao and her cousin worked in a southern Chinese factory, nurturing dreams of their future. Today Qiaoqiao, with her husband Tiandong and children Ziling and Fuling, faces challenges due to Fuling's brittle bone disease. As they return to their hometown for the Spring Festival, an unexpected event separates the family. Qiaoqiao's rural memories blend with the present, reminding her of life's circular nature.

After work, the boss asks Chen Xiao to work overtime. Hesitant, she feels watched and pursued by a giant high-tech eye. After agreeing, she must face endless overtime hours.

Amid a pandemic and sudden unemployment, former dancer Lin Yanan and heartbroken Jiang Gengsheng cross paths and unexpectedly find comfort in each other, offering a brief but radiant connection in an otherwise uncertain time.

A calling inhabits the blank pages, unfolding a secret writing of hers. The unseen written traces seep from the murmuring land, pushing through fragmented voices to become new forms, beings made material. Framed as a dialogue with my grandmother, this film explores an alternative form of personal writing by Chinese women in political shifts, absent and abundant. The 'blank' becomes an image, carrying a search for agency; of land transformed and of women unheard. By breaking down linguistic structures, the film opens a space for imagining, reading, and performing, allowing for emergence.

The story of a young girl from the countryside who embarks on a daring journey to find her working mother in the city. Through her resilience and hard work, the film showcases the importance of family, kinship, and growth, while also calling on society to pay attention to the healthy development of children.

Acclaimed director Hao Zhou journeys into one of China’s vast factories around the time of the pandemic to detail the impact of global supply chains and coercive business practices on workers’ lives.

During the corrupt mid-Republican era, a construction company owner’s cost-cutting leads to a worker’s death, prompting the worker’s wife to secretly seek revenge against him and his associates.

Gao Chang, a Beijing-based musician at a low point in his career, is forced to return to his hometown of Pingtan after learning his mother, Jiang Weihua, caused an accident due to amnesia. The mother, once strict, is now fragile and stubborn, yet remains determined to lead the school choir. Moving from resistance to understanding, Gao Chang decides to help his mother reassemble the choir, and in the process, rediscovers the meaning of music and familial love.

A down-on-his-luck day-laborer buys a used pickup with loans, only for his new helper to steal it. Desperate, he and his estranged high-school-age son track the truck through a shady resale ring, forcing a reckoning and a fragile reconciliation.

Director Anthony Chen and Qu Chuxiao collaborate for the second time to tell a story about bodies and regrets in the rainforests of Malaysia.

In the 23rd year of the Wanli era during the Ming Dynasty, border general Zhan Congwen is framed for colluding with Japanese pirates by treacherous court officials, leading to the execution of his entire family. His son, Zhan Hong, escapes and flees to Qinchuan Town, where he meets and falls in love with Xiahou Ying. However, he soon discovers that her father, Xiahou Batian, was involved in his father’s case. As the truth slowly unravels, Zhan Hong ultimately succeeds in his vengeance and is appointed as the Commander of the Imperial Guards (Jinyiwei), continuing to purge corruption from the court.

A woman's life begins to break apart as her husband decides to leave, her child prepares for surgery, and her mother begins to age.

This film is the first documentary to present a panoramic view of the arduous 14-year struggle of the Chinese people during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It profoundly commemorates the great victory achieved by the Chinese people 80 years ago, after 14 years of relentless and bloody fighting, in defeating the vicious Japanese militarist aggressors.

Liu Liu is living in a strange new land. While his mother looks after the shop, he goes exploring. Encountering a ghost monster, a fierce battle begins. Behind the shop counter, Liu Liu’s mother listens to audiotapes to teach herself Hungarian. Bored and frustrated, Liu Liu goes in search of adventure. Exploring this new and foreign land, he encounters a mysterious monster.

After her dog dies, Jiang Xinyue, a young Muslim woman who has repeatedly refused arranged blind dates, argues with her family. Caught between family pressure and personal desires, Jiang Xinyue chooses to bury her dog alone at night.

Deep in forest mist, a ranger rescues stranded tourists but they become targets in a deadly mystery of repeated attacks. Gunshots ring out, companions fall one by one, and mistrust rapidly turns on itself.

Zoomed DV video pixelation and falling tones explore the visual and auditory connotations of “noise” as they relate to our understanding of dimensional space.

After graduating, Nana encountered setbacks in the job market in big cities. He naively thought that returning to his hometown to take the teacher's exam would bring him a stable life. However, he repeatedly failed the civil service exam. While waiting to take the exam again, he worked as a substitute teacher and gradually realized that "lying down" was harder than working hard. Intergenerational conflicts became his reason for venting. When the job market became a competitive environment, seeking stability became a collective anxiety for a generation. He finally shed his self-justification and admitted that there was no way out after repeated failures. The following year, he became a teacher through a talent introduction program. He found that his colleagues were also there for "stability". The so-called "getting a job" was just another way of being tempered in reality.

Stranded on an island infested with aliens after their tourist boat has been sunk by a sea monster, Tianxiao 'Victor' Chen, Xiaohang Ren, Gu Feng and their gang struggle to look on the bright side of life:

Winter 1996, Harbin. Sha Guo, a boy with a uniquely feminine singing voice, loves to sing but faces bullying and isolation at school, along with strict control and pressure from his obsessive mother. By chance, he meets Sitiao, a nightclub host and stage director. To defend his dignity, pursue his dreams, and find his true self, Sha Guo leaves home and, with Sitiao's support, steps onto the nightclub stage as a cross-dressing singer.

War tears Wenzhou apart, forcing twins Ye Ning and Ye Qing onto opposite paths: Ye Ning becomes a pawn of militarism, while Ye Qing emerges as a guerrilla sharpshooter. When they face each other on the battlefield, will family ties survive the clash of duty and patriotism?

In a dystopian future where borders between countries are indefinitely closed, a replica of Hannover becomes the only way to experience Western culture. Citizen Yu roams through this nostalgic yet eerie town, built from memories of the past. What does he really see?

A slave sold to a cotton factory by his own brother, with the help of the dead, returned for revenge with silent rage.

In Tibetan Luosang, three-year-old Yangjin was hit by Drolma, who was driving a tractor under the influence of alcohol, leaving her with a high-level paraplegia. The incident sparked conflicts among three families, which were eventually resolved through reconciliation, demonstrating how faith and the law can complement each other.

An 11-month-old girl is adopted in China by white parents. 21 years later, that same girl, who is already an adult, reports how her eyes have become witnesses of hatred in a country that insists on saying that they are not racist.

Banyue, a newly graduated female college student, rented a large house with the dream of starting a live broadcast business. The house had been uninhabited for many years and was covered with dust. With the arrival of Banyue, every corner of the room seemed to reveal hidden secrets. At dusk, the large house became even more gloomy and terrifying, and the crisis was coming.

After learning he has terminal liver cancer, Chen Daniu worries most about his young daughter, Chen Qian, and elderly parents. To protect her emotionally, he hides the diagnosis but his efforts lead the family on an emotional journey of love, resilience, and reconciliation.

In this vulnerable documentary, the filmmaker captures how their family resorts to spiritual interventions in an attempt to rid them of their queer identity. The grandmother believes they must be possessed by a ‘demon girl’ – the unborn girl their mother was forced to abort before she became pregnant with Hao. Undergoing prayers, therapies, treatments and ceremonies, Hao paints a wry portrait of these complex relationships with admirable clarity and compassion.

Zheng Yi Sao (née Shi), forced into piracy prostitution, married Zheng Yi, co-ruling pirates with ruthless efficiency. After his 1807 death, she led the Red Banner Fleet, adopting Western tech to resist foreign invaders, becoming a legendary anti-colonial heroine in Qing China’s decline. All visual representations in this production are 100% generated by artificial intelligence (AIGC).

Kwazii arrives at Turtle Island in search of treasure but unexpectedly faces a massive tsunami. To save the island's animals, the Octonauts reunite and launch a time-sensitive rescue mission. However, as the tsunami approaches, new dangers emerge—including Captain Barnacles going missing during the operation. Amid escalating chaos, can the team succeed in their mission and rescue the trapped animals?

After his college entrance examination, an 18-year-old young man decides to follow his 40-year-old uncle to the west to earn some money for his college life. They drive a Jeep across three provinces. Only when they arrive at their destination does he find out that he is taking part in an illegal deal. Over the course of three days, he experiences the cruellest coming of age.

A'e, a widow approaching seventy, lives with her unmarried son Shi'an. When her recently divorced daughter Shining returns home with a child, an invisible wall settles over the family. One cold winter, A'e is swindled while trying to buy herself a cashmere sweater — and the incident cracks open the old house's hidden grief, forcing each member to face what they have long buried.

In 1937, when the July 7 Incident broke out, the Japanese army started to invade China and plundered China's strategic resources such as gold to pay for military expenses. The Eighth Route Army Jiaodong Military Region fighters and hunters Yu Dongfeng and other people together with the bloodbath, through the hardships of thousands of miles to transport gold, fighters and the people and the Japanese invaders launched a protracted life-and-death struggle, and ultimately transported the gold to the Party Central Committee in Yan'an, a powerful support for the national war of resistance.

After a fateful bicycle collision, two opposites—Du Yifeng and Qiao Bin—go from rivals to business partners. As hidden family secrets and unspoken feelings surface, they, along with friend Nan Yu, learn to face their emotions and grow together, finding balance between friendship, love, and ambition.

This film tells the story of two sci-fi short-video creators who enter a haunted house in search of inspiration for ghost stories. While drawing ideas from various horror films, they also end up creating a terrifying monster.