Discoveries from China World Cinema

a film made by Wang Wentao.a high school student experienced many difficulties,and felt depressed.

A coming out of age story of 2 secondary school students who study in a Christian school. Ming is in closet and Hei is openly gay.

"Dream Speaker" tells the story of when God closes one door for you, he often opens another door for you! The story tells the story of a security guard who suffers from severe stuttering and hearing impairment through the care of his parents, especially the strictness, encouragement and encouragement of his father who is a "retired soldier". Going to the other half of my life... Coupled with my strong perseverance and persevering spirit, I have overcome the fear of hearing impairment, overcame the stuttering problem, taught myself university courses, and became an excellent salesman and business elite. At the moment of corporate crisis, he turned the tide through his marketing eloquence, went through untold hardships, and finally became a story of a generation of speakers.

Uncle Nine: The Tomb Buster

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.

In southwestern China, state athletic coaches scour the countryside to recruit poor, rural teenagers who demonstrate a natural ability to throw a good punch. Moved into boxing training centers, these boys and girls undergo a rigorous regimen that grooms them to be China’s next Olympic heroes but also prepares them for life outside the ring. As these young boxers develop, the allure of turning professional for personal gain and glory competes with the main philosophy behind their training – to represent their country. Interconnected with their story is that of their charismatic coach, Qi Moxiang, who – now in his late thirties and determined to win back lost honor – trains for a significant fight.

A Nationalist spy is operating in Dinglong, China, a Communist-held area, after World War II.

Everyday, there are so many dramatic scenes in the department of gynecology in Zhongnan hospital. This is a real story of 40 families.

A wig shop next to the cancer hospital. Most of the customers here are cancer patients. Yang Shuai, a young barber with a negative attitude towards life, meets Gao Xue, a nurse who is suffering from pancreatic cancer. The two fall in love. In the last moments of Yang Shuai's life with Gao Xue, they find the meaning of survival and the truth, goodness and beauty of life.

The Min River is crucial for Fujian Province’s economy. In 1947, Lin Sen Guan, a Communist Party member and driver of the “Fuzhou” steamship, smuggled weapons and radios to a guerrilla base with fellow party members. The enemy, led by transportation inspector Wang Xun, sent spy Li Boguang to monitor them. Lin Sen Guan tricked Li Boguang, but the spy later discovered the weapons. Lin Sen Guan pushed him into the water, witnessed by helmsman A Wang, who refused to reveal the truth despite enemy pressure. The underground party decided to transport remaining weapons to the guerrilla zone. The “Fuzhou” set sail, followed by enemy ships. Near Luohan Tan, a guerrilla team unloaded the weapons. The enemy opened fire, but A Wang steered the “Minh River” into an enemy vessel, causing mutual destruction. The weapons reached the guerrilla zone, and Lin Sen Guan continued their underground efforts.

A resourceful veteran cop surrounded by inexperienced youngsters is called upon to defuse a series of explosive devices across Harbin.

7 young men and women and their three stories involved with heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual affairs that happened in Beijing. A single mom meets a young student; A city boy meets a guy of his dream; A girl falls into a love game of a male and a female fellows in her French class.

Lives of people living in Sunset Street changes during the transition of society.

Deputy Chief Cui Daqing of the Fengtai Town Police Station in Beijing's Fengtai District begins his busy day. Leading officers Huang and Su Ming, among others, he sets out to apprehend a bicycle theft gang. Just then, Cui's wife calls, saying their son Didi had fallen seriously ill. With no time for family matters, Cui orders the driver to proceed. But resident Mr. Zhao, caught up in his own personal dispute, refuses to let the car pass.

Hot chicks form a justice club to beat the crap out of voyeurs.

Sentenced to spend a day with the imprisoned demons, a woman who belongs to the noblest celestial clan meets someone who changes her world.

A teenage girl is ready to experiment, but an older man’s demands burden her sexual awakening with complex realizations about her place in the world.

Mother Feng and her family struggle to live before and during the Japanese invasion of China.

A stirring and heroic action adventure of Chi You, once the ancestor of all Chinese, who must fight betrayal and for his love to survive.

An outstanding criminal police is chased by a smuggling gang for reprisal.

Fantasy comedy based on «Classic of Mountains and Seas» (Shan-hai ching), medieval compilation of mythic geography.

On an ordinary day in a city in northern China, people struggle with their lives as usual. A middle-aged man finds his job has been given to a young person. The man's wife wants a new life. Some high school students are numbly arranged in the schoolyard. And a young teacher is trying to change the traditional education system. The owner of a barbershop forces the barbers to go into the streets to grab customers. Similarly, a barbecue shop owner is transforming his shop into a nightclub. When night falls, people finish work and come to the new nightclub. They lose themselves in the gorgeous illusion.

A frigid winter on the Mongolian steppe, an untimely snowstorm aggravated the lives of a pregnant herder and her 8-year-old daughter: the missing flock of sheep, the unborn child, the absent husband, traces of wolves...... everything led the mother and daughter to places they’ve never been.

Xie Guangkun is transformed into Yang Erzheng, a poor and unruly villager in Liaoxi Township. He is recognized as the village's "bad guy", having lost his wife at an early age and raised his daughter alone

In the early days of the Republic of China, a series of mysterious cases occurred at Wuming River. The river deity, Master Ba Ye, and his apprentice Yue'er are invited by villager Qiu Sheng to help exorcise evil spirits afflicting his sister. As Master Ba Ye arrives, the hidden truths behind the deaths at Wuming River slowly come to light. It turns out that the wealthy local nobleman, Qian Jinming, is deeply entangled in the events. Beneath the string of villagers’ tragic deaths lies a horrifying tale about the darkness within human nature.

In a small-town high school, days before the college entrance exam, teacher Chen Jun finds out that the father of his most promising student has died in a mining accident. Telling him—or not—bears heavy consequences.

This three-part film explores homosexuality in communist China.

Dafei, a complete failure in life, is unexpectedly chosen to compete in an alien-hosted tournament that will decide Earth’s survival. Through the trials, he gradually overcomes his selfishness and insecurity, shedding his self-destructive habits. In the end, he unites with the very people he once resented and dismissed—his ‘social circle adversaries,’ the marginalized masses—to save the planet together.

Xiaoman and his younger sister Xiaojia picked up a curtain puppet named "Little Bell" on the road. The younger sister Xiaojia considered that Little Bell might still have performance tasks, and suggested returning it to the puppet troupe immediately.

As his daughter Qinglan’s sinister illness escalates, marked by recurrent chants of a creepy children’s song, feng shui expert Hao teams up with dockhand Kun and reporter Wei, heading for the mysterious Qingshi Town. The town’s impeccable feng shui layout belies its pervasive strangeness. Their investigation leads to the truth about her sister Honglian’s destiny and triggers the exposure of the town’s terrifying hidden truth...

From 1948 to 1949, on the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, a story that happened in an elementary school for the children of workers under the Kuomintang gun repair shop. A group of innocent children, with their hope and yearning for the new life system in their lives, went from a pure love of guns and stealing guns impulsively, to being inspired and led by a young progressive female teacher — and slowly embark on a Revolutionary Road.