Discoveries from China World Cinema

Eight years ago, Liu Zhenguo was a homeless orphan that Liu Baohong "picked up" from the town's garbage dump and brought home. Liu Baohong registered him and paid for his education. His wife Xie Ronglan was complaining that their already tight family had one more pair of chopsticks. Liu Baohong adopted orphans one after another and built an orphanage in his own home. Xie Ronglan was finally mad and ran away. She went to Beijing and picked up garbage for several years. Whenever she saved up 1,000 yuan, she would send it to that special home. The indelible childhood shadow of young Zhenguo, coupled with his usual wandering life, made him unsociable. His only friend was

The moment Bebe was born, a glowing UFO streaked across the night sky. His parents find that his hands are electrically charged and are able to manipulate electrical appliances.

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In this experimental play, He Yunqing is a Go master who has played chess all his life

On September 13, 1972, a terrible accident in a river, which caused nationwide excitement.

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

Villagers pooled up money and drive a sick widow to Yangzhou on a tractor to see a doctor.

After a power-hungry dinosaur from outside the valley attacks the king of dinosaurs by surprise, a young T-Rex escapes and begins to train, vowing never to return until he is the biggest and bravest in all the land--and finally strong enough to challenge the evil Fang and restore peace to Green Valley.

A medical incident happens when Changjiang Medical University having its 60th anniversary festival...

What happens when an otaku meets a flight attendant? Taiwan actor Wilson Chen (Blue Gate Crossing) and popular television actress Wang Luodan (Who to Decide My Youth) star in the Chinese romantic comedy My Airhostess Roommate. Directed by Jiang Qinmin (Sky Lover), this fun and fresh love story adapted from a popular online novel brings out the sparks, conflicts, and romance that occur when two very different people become roommates.

Shanxi generals Qu Wei and Du Gujiu were killed in the escorting of "money and beauty" on the way to Beijing, and their portable sword "Meng Lao" appeared in the hands of Jianghu thief Lu Kun, six women catching head stone Yiyi, Qu Wei’s good friend Jin Yiwei Mu Bin won Lu Kun, but found that Lu Kun was also blamed, while the six doors were eager to settle Lu Kun’s case. Mu Bin and Shi Yiyi needed to find out the truth within three days, and they were looking for When blaming Lu Kun's fur-skinned dog, he was set up to kill the serial. After all the fog was found, all the doubts were pointed to the Chunxiang floor plaque. What is it all because of this? What is the identity? Why are the six doors eager to finalize the case? Love killing or vendetta? Who is the real murderer? And seeing Mu Bin and Shi Yiyi, this is a visual feast for us.

Lin Nian and his mother depend on each other and live a low-key life. Lin Nian was accidentally discovered by Professor Cui, who carried out genetic modification that year, and Professor Cui ordered his subordinates to lead people to hunt down Lin Nian. On the way to escape, Shen Yu appeared to save him, and after a series of incidents, Lin Nian, Shen Yu, Song Ran, and the three joined forces to find out the truth.

Eleven, which played at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, is the first short film of director Zhang Lu. He is a forty-year-old writer whose works engage with issues of cultural difference stemming from his own background as a member of the Korean cultural minority in China. Eleven is a fourteen-minute long vignette, virtually silent, of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age.

A primary school teacher rallies the citizens of a small town to resist the corruption of the local government and unite to build reinforcements against an oncoming flood.

Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.

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.

Set in modern-day Shanghai, the film follows Lu Min (played by Xiao Bo), a high school student facing the pressure of the college entrance exam. Without a privileged background, his hopes for a better future rest entirely on getting into a top university. His mother, Fangfang (played by Song Dandan), is a thrifty housewife obsessed with winning prizes from TV quiz shows—nearly every appliance in their home comes from her efforts. His father, Dayi (played by Fu Biao), struggles to find stable work after being laid off, failing one re-employment program after another. After briefly landing a job as a bar companion, he ends up in the hospital due to poor alcohol tolerance. Each member of the family is caught in their own test of life, navigating hardship with resilience, like countless ordinary families striving to hold on.

Due to a genetic mutation, of the two brothers, the younger brother grew up with an unusually high body temperature and possesses ice powers, while the older brother possesses the fire system. The older brother is trained to be a powerful assassin by the Japanese who adopted him, while a mysterious organization in China is also in touch with the younger brother. The older brother is ordered to abduct the younger brother's lover, and when they meet again they become enemies, and during the fight the older brother recognizes the younger brother, Xiaoyu. After all they have been through, the two brothers eventually recognize each other and join forces to defeat the enemy.

China's first peacekeeping military film "China Blue Helmet" tells the story of the current Chinese peacekeeping force's officers and men in Africa's resolute implementation of President Xi's "building a community of human destiny", strictly fulfilling the mission entrusted by the United Nations, and dispatching the "Bing King" The operational team headed by Du Feng risked his life and rescued the UN investigation team from the terrorists, thus preventing a war that was triggered, maintaining the order of the refugee camp and safeguarding the rights and interests of the refugees. But the young soldiers also sacrificed their lives in order to maintain peace in Africa during this operation...

An odyssey based on true events: Thupten, Droma und Kalsang, three children from a Tibetan village, set out with their older companion Sonam for Shenzhen in Southern China. They're intending to perform as a band on TV. The special thing about their long and difficult journey is that none of them can see.

She who plays all day long, either being lazy or stealing food, it is impossible to practice well... And then she who seems to be strict, but is, in fact, gentle and pampered. Together, these two live a happy life.

Newspaper reporter Shen Youran (Tong Fei) worked undercover in a black heart hospital and met Nanshan (Hu Xia) who treated her mother. Nanshan disease rushed to the hospital and got trapped in the hospital. As a reporter, Shen Youran wanted to expose the hospital's shady and took away the fake medicine sold to Nanshan's mother by the hospital. Nanshan didn't know the truth, he was eager to save his mother, and chased Shen Youran madly, and the evidence of Shen Youran was taken away by a lunatic. At the same time, the bodyguards sent by the hospital started chasing Shen Youran madly, and Shen Youran desperately protected the evidence for his own conscience. When Nanshan understood the truth of the matter, he resolutely stood with Shen Youran. The two worked together to expose the black heart hospital, and the two kind people were finally moved by love.

In the 80's, passing the college entrance exam was the only hope for a future. To Chi-wen and Ming-hsien it is a bleak and unwanted future that they rebel against. Ming-hsien is in love with Jing-fen, a girl with a musician boyfriend. In order to prove his love Ming-hsien decides against taking the college entrance exam in order to help her with a financial scam. When Chiwen follows suit, he loses his girlfriend as well as his focus in life.

Born in Beijing tells the story of 'petitioners': citizens who feel themselves wrongfully treated by the local authorities and seek settlement in the capital. There are thought to be more than 100,000 petitioners in Beijing. These people, harassed by 'interceptors', brave terrible conditions in their battle against injustice and corruption.

A seven-part anthology film that probes the theme of childhood from various angles. Each part is directed by a different person, with techniques ranging from watercolor to cut-out.

Tang Ke graduated from university and was depressed because he over-controlled his father's life. Inadvertently he saw a picture of a frog's jammed shell and was motivated and decided to change. After many setbacks, Tang Ke became a courier and met a group of colleagues. Eventually, he said goodbye to the long life chain and started a new life journey.

Yin Thirteen and Fatty Shi are good friends, and they hang out at the Maoshan bar. Yin Thirteen is pro demon catcher but nobody believes him. One day friends are invited to a woman's house where the curtains are hung tight because as soon as she opens them she feels someone strangling her. After they manage to solve this one, they are drawn into another incident. A week ago, a girl from the same school, Mu Ran, was in a car accident and her friend Lan Shan died in the accident. Her ghost seems to be full of resentment and want to drag her friends into the underworld. Thirteen and Fatty save Mu Ran, but on the way back, they encounter the young men from Fatty's village, Dai Xiong and Xiao Xiong. It was a bad feeling. In order to find out, the good brothers and Mu Ran headed towards the village where the evil spirits were roaming....

An old mansion, sealed for years, re-opens as a museum. A ghost is sighted by the museum's guide, our heroine, who has fallen for a social outcast, a scientist obsessed with finding ghosts with his machines.