Discoveries from China World Cinema

Zhang Fei solves a malicious accusation when he is taking charge of a local official.

“Free Man” tells the story of the international rescue and search and rescue team ‘Free Men’, which consists of Chinese people, who are involved in rescue. After a mission, the team receives a new commission. Through investigation, Hua Zi, a member of the team, realizes that the mission may be dangerous and disagrees with it, but Luo Fengfeng, the captain of the team, believes that rescuing in the limit, creating possibilities in the impossibility, and doing one's best to save each and every life is the original purpose of the team's establishment. With this belief, a few people embarked on a life-fighting rescue. In this rescue, everyone is striving for life, not giving up on themselves and anyone who needs them. The search and rescue team enters the base underneath and encounters many attacks by mutated monsters.

A Story of Xiangyang Neighborhood Compound

Chai Jing's documentary about the massive smog problem in China. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.

A Malaysian Chinese short film about the struggles of Chan, in recovering her mother's memories and fixing their broken relationship when he knew that Fen, is diagnosed with Alzheimer.

A heroic People's Liberation Army nurse continues caring for wounded and getting them safely to hospital even though she has been wounded.

Actress Liu Qing is haunted by evil spirits every night, blurring the lines between her on-screen and real lives. The ghost of her ghost marriage relentlessly pursues her, revealing a horrifying scheme built on the blood of human lives beneath her glamorous exterior. A male doctor goes to the countryside to provide free medical care and is shocked to discover that the mentally unstable village woman is actually a former popular actress. A village bully's evil conspiracy conceals a century-old mystery, and a terrifying curse from a new era quietly looms. Can this series of bizarre events truly be brought to an end?

Anatole France's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife has been adapted into three different Hong Kong films in the 1950s alone. These two adaptations stray from the source material considerably in genre, characterisation and plot, turning a farce about married life into localised romantic comedies that emphasise family values. The Beauty and the Dumb follows the couple from their meet-cute to the misunderstandings they encounter before the inevitable happy ending. The heir of a bank (Huang He) falls in love at first sight with one of the employees' daughter (Li Lihua), but their burgeoning relationship is nearly derailed when the girl's father intervenes to help his dumb daughter land a rich husband.

A village chief with a tendency to mete out justice according to his own code is finally reported to authorities after a woman hangs herself.

A flood breaks out and the coastal towns need to be evacuated. The prison in the city decide to transfer the prisoners. A retired policeman alone has to transfer three dangerous prisoners, who find it a rare opportunity to escape.

Qin Ran had a conflict with his parents, and went to Bajiaogou Elementary School to teach internship. Because the first teaching caused a lot of embarrassment, Qin Ran slowly learned how to get along with the children under the patient guidance of Li Yunxiang, the principal. In the class, a student named Zhang Xiaoqiang went to the city to find his parents because of trouble. Qin Ran understood the love of his parents while looking for Zhang Xiaoqiang. At the same time, he also understood that what Zhang Xiaoqiang and the children in the mountains need most are also right. It is the love of parents.

Beijing, winter 1990. Song and his girlfriend Xiao Qing have just moved into a hovel which they're illegally renting since they are not officially married. Song, a young chemistry graduate, is appointed to a position in a small engineering factory where he demonstrates a marked lack of enthusiasm. As for Xiao Qing, she is still a student, studying French. But their joy at living together and the idea of building a little island of happiness cannot withstand the weight of reality.

The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua’s construction company 24 years later.

Fu Xiao Xiao lives with her father after her parents divorced. Her father is always busy with his researches. She doesn't have friends and is being bullied at school. One day a new student joins her class. Xiao Xiao discovers that they are actually neighbours. They become close while going to school and back together, even more than friends..

1981 Chinese Film

Set in Shanghai during the Xinhai Revolution, the film follows foreign powers exploiting underground boxing matches to steal secrets of Chinese martial arts. Master Huo Zhenshan defends national pride by defeating a foreign fighter, but mysteriously dies afterward. A young man named Shitou, seeking revenge for his father’s death, infiltrates the Huo martial arts school and falls in love with Huo’s daughter, Xiaoyu. As tensions rise, he becomes entangled with Huang Jinpeng, who is secretly pursuing his own vendetta. Together, they uncover the truth and join forces to thwart the foreigners' conspiracy.

Cross-dressed as a man, the young scholar did not anticipate catching the eye of a beautiful courtesan, nor the bond that they form together. But will her long-standing deception create a rift between the two of them?

Dr. Sun Zhongshan leads a democratic revolution in China.

Due to a family tragedy, He Daming severed ties with his father and left his hometown, never to return for decades. Years later, terminally ill, he embarks on a journey home with his wife by his side, hoping to see his father one last time before he dies.

This is the first documentary film to depict the emotional growth and journey of contemporary Chinese animation creators. Through interviews with many prominent animators, the film offers a rare glimpse into the diverse experiences and behind-the-scenes stories that have shaped the evolution of Chinese animation.

The farmers' busy summer is impossible to experience without personal experience. I always want to shoot a film recording the farmers' busy summer, so that people can understand the hard work of farmers.

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in China's interior, to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China's northwest frontier.[1] Through informal interviews aboard the cramped rail cars, Ning Ying explores the hopes and dreams of the workers, many of whom have never left their homes before.

(advertisement short film.) Man returns to his hometown for Spring Festival, tasting the familiar food makes him remember childhood memories.

Master Ye Zhuo destroyed the evil forces alone, but he witnessed the tragic death of his wife. Then he travel to a foreign country to seek for revenge.

Sent by his parents to study kung fu at the Shaolin temple, folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (Bo Wa Shut) is taught by the finest fighters in the land and must prove himself to a particularly tough instructor in Part 1 of this two-part tale. The young student eventually enters a competition and, in a classic scene, fights off hundreds of monks in the "Swastika Formation." Wing-Ha Chan, Hung-Man Do and Gwok Leung also star in this martial arts extravaganza.

The sinful demon spirit with white hair and green threads is causing trouble in the world, leading the head of the Demon Refining Department Zhong Kui to search for the demon. Zhong Kui rushes to Qing Shui Town to look for her whereabouts. Bounty hunter Mo Li intervenes in Qing Shui Town just at that moment, making Zhong Kui believe that she is hiding in Qing Shui Town. With the help of He Jinshui, the deacon of the demon refining division of the town, Zhong Kui searched for the trail and repeatedly confronted the bounty hunter, Mo Li, who saw catching Silk White Hair as a bet with Zhong Kui, and competed with him in many fights. What kind of demon is the white hair and blue silk? Why make waves? Who is the ultimate winner of the bet between Zhong Kui and Mo Li?

A woman who lost her child and divorced her husband continues to complete her son’s unfinished translation work.

The story of how different people try to find love and communicate their feelings and wishes.

This art film is an ink cartoon adapted from the story of the same name in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". In the dream, the scholar Dou Xu was invited to a banquet by the queen. At the banquet, he got acquainted with the princess Lotus.

Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit snuck off to the mortal realm to go around the village during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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....

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions as the shaman dance (tiao tchin, meaning "spirit-jumping" or "god's dance"). However, on Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, a farmer named Guan Yunde decided to start designing and building traditional Manchu shaman drums. At age 70, he is one of a minority of ethnic Manchu people in China's Jilin province, and one of the few people keeping the Manchu shamanic tradition alive.

This classic revolutionary model opera is based on a true story during the relatively short-term military conflict in which South Korea's best elite troop the White Tiger Regiment, that was a mechanized force fully equipped by the United States and boasted of being invincible (in a typical South Korean manner of bragging and fabricating), was destroyed in a raid.

A celebrated TV host, facing a crumbling marriage and a strained family, discovers she—not her father—has a hereditary disease, forcing her to reclaim her identity before memory fades.