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The Great Unity of the new Generation of Chinese modern Artists since 21st Century. 50 new Chinese artists of new Generation came to Xinglong County, Hebei Province, where is 110 kilometers away from Beijing. Here, they have given their own answers to the same question: what is art? Through focusing on varied perspectives of emerging artists on creating, how the environment impacts them and challenges artist are experiencing and have experienced from art itself and society. Artists demonstrate the complex relationship between art, environment, art creating and individuals, and they are intended to deepen an eternal question –What is art?

New Castle is a remote rural village where houses and mountains have been distorted due to excessive mining. Under the "New Village" campaign, all the villagers will be moved into the nearly completed Luxury Buildings. The documentary depicts the life of two groups of people, miners and villagers. The miners who are from all over the country, lost their jobs because of the Olympic Games in Beijing - the mine was shut down to make the air less polluted. The villagers had no better luck. Granny Fan lost two sons and two grandsons in a mining accident. Old Han and Old Wang are still farming. Some youngsters are gambling in the house of Han Bin, who was crippled in another mining accident. In the film, you can also see the village election, the service of local Christians, and people worshipping for a better year to come.

As a young man, Zheng was a wild boy: he’d rather spend his time gambling and dancing than studying. But his exuberant way of life came to an end when, during the Cultural Revolution, he was charged with counter-revolutionary behavior and sent to prison. Now, he lives in the boarding house of Shuanglin Town, and is a silent witness to the last chapter of his own, lonely Life. Unyielding to his neighbors, to his society, to its History, as well as to the omnipresent Chinese system, he realizes that he is even almost independent of himself. This intimate and respectful portrait of a striking 83-year-old Chinese citizen offers us an inside view into the way China treats its Seniors and gives us the opportunity to better understand China’s contemporary History.

The sagas tell that E Huang was the hometown of gods. Then they left, and human beings come with pollution. Several stories are told about the young including son of a boss, worker, college girl, triad, jobless gambler, and policeman who live in a small town. The ties between them and the socie-ty remain strong but that only leaves them limited op-tions: either es-cape, or drift through lives.

After his wife passes away, a man must contemplate the meaning of life, and journey through the mourning process to find hope again.

Bai Fei, trafficked since childhood, retains only fragmented memories of a camel-shaped mountain. During his desperate search for home, he bonds with Yao Yuan—a fellow outcast raised in rural isolation. Their connection, transcending familial, platonic, and romantic love, faces societal scorn. When Auntie Wang evicts them from her rental, she later discovers Bai Fei is her long-lost son, triggering a painful reunion. Fleeing prejudice, Yao Yuan takes Bai Fei to his ancestral Lang Mountain, only to be separated after their taboo relationship resurfaces. Bai Fei spirals into self-destruction and sexual recklessness, even bedding Wang’s daughter Weiwei. Meanwhile, Yao Yuan risks his life in a perilous dragon-head incense ritual to pray for redemption, as their fractured lives mirror China’s urban-rural divide and generational trauma.

Two boys fall in love during Summer.

After Carey's husband Jeff died, she accidentally found that Jeff was in love with a man named Matt before. How would she handle this? Had Jeff ever loved her? Could she forgive him? And at the same time, what will Matt do while he hasn't got Jeff's novel dedicated to him as he promised? A man dies, what changes shall it bring to other two people that loved him?

A retelling of "Journey to the West", chronicling the many trials and tribulations in the pilgrimage of the monk Tang Sanzang. Along the way he is joined by the Monkey King Sun Wukong, as well as the monsters Pigsy & Sandy. Together, they must ward off monsters, ghosts, and anyone who stands in the way of their adventure.

"Food Factory" is based on the exaggerated performance of eating and excretion in our daily life as the basic narrative basis. The video tells an absurd story with surrealistic characteristics and is completed by frame-by-frame shooting. The work caused us to reexamine and think about the basic elements of survival. Zhang Moying, female, graduated from Shanghai Academy of Visual Arts in 2015.

The shakuhachi is a famous Japanese lbamboo-flute. It was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 7th century and underwent a resurgence in the early Edo period. The film records the life of the shakuhachi performers, controllers, and learners in China, Japan, the United States

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

Legendary Peking Opera master, Yuling Fang, emigrates to New York where he works in a nail salon. Realizing there is no one to inherit his legendary skills, he decides to mount an amateur production in order to keep alive the vanishing world he loves.

Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they drift night after night, they become the living interface of a metamorphosis that cannot be perceived or understood if not by becoming part of it. Thus, Hanqi and her friends catch fleeting glimpses of beauty in an environment that most people would only perceive as alienating, hostile or cold. Like an ambient composition by Brian Eno or Philip Glass, the film moves through minimal variations, completely immersed in its nocturnal beat. Space becomes time.

The Over the Rainbow project initiated by Shenzhen Songhe Growth-caring Foundation, along with some music professors in Yunnan or around China, went to some minority areas to guide local children' s chorus . On July 22, 2016, among 16 minority areas children's chorus the sponsored by the Songhe Foundation, over three hundred minority music teachers and children have performed their wonderful music with national characteristics for domestic and overseas audiences in Yunnan.

Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an education, is exhilarating, heart breaking, life affirming, shocking, despairing and ecstatic, all at once.

Since his wife left him, Jun has been a wandering soul who wonders what purpose all his suffering serves. In a simple farming village surrounded by barren hills, he takes care of a small temple. He looks at his hands: his right is blessed, and his left is deformed. He believes he has healing abilities and goes from house to house to help the sick. As the seasons pass, this gently-paced portrait of the wandering Jun is interwoven with impressions of village life, with its rituals and festivals, and poverty that makes many people desperate, and some defiant. Two sheep, destined to be sacrificed, add a grimly poetic note to this uncompromising and moving meditation on fate and the search for meaning. The body cam worn by one of the sheep also makes for some surprising shots. Meanwhile, Jun’s musings gradually reveal more about the crises he has had to endure and the reason for his self-sacrifice.

Two women from different social backgrounds and with different attitudes towards life, fall in love.

The film starts one year after the stories of 'Approach to Love' have unfolded. Main character Wu Shuang broke up with Chen Wei, with whom he was in a long-distance relationship. He suffers physically and mentally, and engages in random sex in order to stop the pain. At a sex date, Wu met Wang Yunchao, who is a teacher at his university. Wang started to stalk him, up until Wu relented and fell for him too. Wu found the courage to forget the past, and opened himself up to a new relationship. However, at that moment, Wang left him.

A story of a little boy and his troubles in the school.

The soul is like the wind, and the wind is in the mountains. Walk into the no-man 's land and say farewell to the regretful past...

Elke Marhöfer's observational essay takes its title from a Korean Pansori song. One of three musical interludes performed in the film, this song tells the story of a turtle locked in a futile circle of evasion with a hungry tiger. Marhöfer's film is concerned with the formal attributes of Pansori music – its traditions of storytelling and the transmittance of an alternative knowledge. The film journeys through natural landscapes, small town streets, forested mountains and busy shipping channels as it looks at the divide between the traditional and the modern. Shot in 16mm, this measured and lyrical film is an exploration into the boundaries between humans, animals and things.

The story is about a bamboo shoot salter from a traditional market. She is also “a self-portrait artist” whose works were collected by the National Museum of Fine Art. Her name is LIU Yi-Lan. In her story, you can see a typical image of “old-time female of Taiwan”.

Jane is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and she tries her best to cope. She starts by recording the most important moments in her life, hoping she will always remember the things that should not be forgotten. She chooses to stay home and her daughter, Natalie, employs a full time caregiver to take care of her while she goes off to work. Days pass, and Alzheimer’s progresses. Jane’s condition deteriorates. She starts to forget some words, and then completely forgets the journal and making entries. She starts to forget her only daughter. Natalie desperately tries to hold on to the memories as they fade from Jane’s mind. What was once a shared memory now only belongs to Natalie.

Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters, which premiered in Venice.

25 years ago, American author Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) went to the Zhongnan Mountains to seek out modern Chinese hermits. His resulting book, Road to Heaven, was a touchstone for many westerners wondering what remained of Buddhist and Daoist asceticism in China. Now, for the first time, Bill Porter revisits Zhongnan to seek out those who seek from within, living quiet lives of deep devotion in some of the world's most stunning locales.

A piece on the 1987 "October" experimental theatre action that took place at the Sanzhi UFO houses in Taiwan.

It is said that in 1938, an army of Japanese devils performing secret missions came forward and stationed in Baixiang, a commercial and trading town in the north of China. At one time, a bloody storm broke out in Baixiang. Conspiracy, the story of the spy agent code-named Vulture and Pigeon sneaking into White Lane ...

A black screen. Four voices are heard. Two men are telling and repeating to two others that they are “welcome to the region”. Gradually, the situation becomes clearer: the filmmaker, Zhu Rikun, is on a shoot in Sichuan. His interest is in the lung diseases that plague the region’s workers, a health problem already present in his film Dust and which the Chinese State is trying to hush up. So here he is, invited to a brief interview with the local authorities, which is audio-recorded and played back in full in the film. A raw document that bares the methods of power: the insistence of the censors, their successive changes in strategy ranging from sugar-coated threats to the express demand that the images be destroyed, which only fuels the desire to bear witness even further.

A group of young boys are fascinated by a girl who spends her days looking out the window.

Kang Qing from Chenlu Township is in love with Geng Fei, the rich girl. Disregarding his parents' opposition, Geng Fei went to Chenlu and Kangqing to restore the wood kiln process. However, Kang Qing died in a car accident. In order to fulfill the lover's last wish, with the help of Kang Qing's father, Geng Fei finally succeeded in firing the best kiln products, fulfilling the wishes of generations.

‘Wearing the Fog’ is a double-screen video with a non-linear narrative structure. it circles around the cold of the industrial world and the indifference of a family. The video consists of multiple narratives that are told in a non-linear fashion. The different stories show what I fear and what I hate to see. - Yafei Qi

A silent short about a moment in the day.