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On a deserted island lives a desperately lonely Cyclops. Time passes, the seasons too. One summer night, he discovers an egg from which a bird hatches. Very quickly a fusional relationship binds them, until summer came back ...

Accordion Class explores the under-examined history of the accordion and its legacy in China, as the only permitted western instrument during the cultural revolution. Since then, the accordion’s popularity and influence has risen and fallen over half a century. Looking at accordion classes and competition today, the film presents how the instrument is taught, performed and received by a younger generation in the city of Changsha.

A subtle combination of documentary and fiction filmmaking, Luo Li’s remarkable Rivers and My Father was inspired by stories from his father’s childhood. Li inventively structures sound, image and narration, evoking the ways in which memory operates.

The footage was shot in Perth in 2016 and edited into a film in 2018. A kind of drifting.

Situated in Zuoying District of southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City, Xiling Street was once a dining, shopping, and entertainment hotspot for local soldiers because of its proximity to a naval base. This film combines oral history, 360-degree virtual reality videos, and dramatic reenactments to reproduce Xiling Street’s heyday in the 1980s, taking the audience on a 30-year journey transcending time and space.

A documentary following the filmmaker, Li Xinmin, who went back to her hometown and interviewed the elders in her village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. The residents of this village Huamulin are still isolated. At the same time, the film reflects the loneliness in the real life of village's old people

Top programmer Lu Xiaopao received a blackmail video of her sister Lu Xiaomei being kidnapped and asked Lu Xiaopao to pay 1 million yuan to redeem her. The younger sister Lu Xiaomei, who was successfully "rescued", and Lu Xiaopao broke up. Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaomei was accidentally kidnapped by the cyber criminal gang "Black Domain", and the rescue operation began. Lu Xiaopao used superb network technology to break through the blockades of the "black domain" and found the whereabouts of the black domain. Unexpectedly, he fell into the tricks of the "black domain" leader Anthony. This life and death rescue is hard to predict.

In southern China, a nervous city woman appears in a remote rural village, to go to her ex-boyfriend’s grandparents’ house to find him. The locals hardly respond to her loud, rude behavior. She can’t find her boyfriend but she finds out the secret friendship his grandfather has kept for 60 years.

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A group of long-time buddies who have been successful with their careers avoid returning to their village every year during Chinese New Year. Upset and disappointed, this prompts the group's parents to pack their bags and visit their sons and daughters in the city in hopes of celebrating the auspicious day together.

As a sequel to Ai Weiwei’s film "Disturbing the Peace," the film "So Sorry" (named after the artist’s 2009 exhibition in Munich, Germany) shows the beginnings of the tension between Ai Weiwei and the Chinese Government. In "So Sorry," you see the investigation led by Ai Weiwei studio to identify the students who died during the Sichuan earthquake as a result of corruption and poor building constructions leading to the confrontation between Ai Weiwei and the Chengdu police. After being beaten by the police, Ai Weiwei traveled to Munich, Germany to prepare his exhibition at the museum, Haus der Kunst. The result of his beating led to intense headaches caused by a brain hemorrhage and was treated by emergency surgery. These events mark the beginning of Ai Weiwei’s struggle and surveillance at the hands of the state police.

Li Yun Feng, a rich second-generation Sunshine and a good-natured senior student, Zhou Yu Ben, is a good brother, but he likes Liu Xi Qi, a temperamental class flower. In order to win the good feelings of Liu Si Qi, the two decided to compete fairly. The skill attributes of the two people are completely different. One is as hot as fire, one is as deep as water and evenly matched. However, Li Yun Feng’s sudden departure from the country made this competition unfair, so they set an agreement...

Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical fertilizer to practice natural farming. His philosophy attracted a big group of admirers from the city, whereas local villagers disagreed on his approaches.

A film by Ning Ying.

The film adaptation of the novel by Macanese writer Lio Chi Heng marks the 10th anniversary of the transfer of the Portuguese colony of Macau to Chinese administration. The year is 1999 and Macau television ceaselessly informs the population of preparations for the upcoming handover. In the atmosphere of the changing society, when some submit to Chinese lessons and others consider emigration, the movie’s protagonist begins to investigate his own identity.

The film is based on a novel by Si Hao Van. It describes the love story of two homosexual college students.

We grow apart, from whom we thought we would be.

Off Takes consists of discarded images from Jingban Hao's extensive Beijing Ballroom Project (2012-2016), in which the artist explores the individual memories and personal stories of ballroom dancers.

Li Baicheng is a charismatic fortune teller who services a clientele of prostitutes and marginalized figures whose jobs, like his, are commonplace but technically illegal in China. He practices his ancient craft in a village near Beijing while taking care of his deaf and dumb wife Pearl, who he rescued from her family's mistreatment. Winter brings a police crackdown on both fortune tellers and prostitutes, forcing Li and Pearl into temporary exile in his hometown, where he revisits old family demons. His humble story is told with chapter headings similar to Qing Dynasty popular fiction.

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The movie tells the story of Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, and Zhan Zhao. When the truth about the mysterious case of Baiyun Town surrounded by the enemy was encountered, he encountered many obstacles from General Tang and his deputy. The story of how Bao Zheng and others will choose when the internal and external troubles occur.

Min Min keeps her best friend Claire's note from being delivered to a boy they both like and opens the note one night out of jealousy.

Peasants that were targeted as counter-revolutionaries during the Cultural Revolution in China share their stories in this documentary by Xu Xing.

A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Against diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families appear to the photographer. Through these shots, the photographer will weave unique links with each of the various villagers.

In the sound of rice huller, the rice falls to the jar; and in the booming sound of thunder, the rain drops falldown on the ground. Witha shovel on shoulder, we're farming under the sky. -- This is a children's folk rhymes used to be very popular among the Hakka people lived in the westernpart of Fujian Province, China. While farming is not an easy work, rice hulling is an even more laborious work. Rice-huller is a tool used by the peasants in southern China to hull the rice for thousands of years in theirfarming history. This documentary films the making of probably the last rice-huller ever made by mankind.

A former gangster gains new prestige in his small mining community when he displays an uncanny ability to predict the deaths of people around him.

It is said that December 21, 2012 is the end of the world. Different people doing different things - walking on the street with shopping bags; rushing to say I Love You; watching DVD at home; looking at the stock certificates; rushing to walk in the tunnel; having dinner with family; embracing each other warmly. What they are doing, is because the end of the world, or other reasons?

After being abandoned for nearly seven decades, the old tribal village is difficult to reach with almost no roads leading to it. The only guide on our journey in search of our roots is Wilang, who drags his octogenarian body up the mountain. As we follow Wilang’s footsteps, we travel a tunnel back in time...

Ji Oh and Seo Young are staying at Min Ji's house. The boarding fee for Ji Oh and Seo Young has been delayed for a few months. Min Ji is pressuring them for the boarding fee. Seo Young starts a dating part-time job to pay for boarding. Ji Oh also follows Seo Young to work in part-time dating, and she pays all the late boarding fees. Min Ji declares a ban on men.

An animation in which a small grasshopper hunts for the season’s most sought-after fruits. His dramatic escape from a large predator leads him unexpectedly to the object of desire: the pomegranate.

2011 short film by Doris Chin-Yan Wong