Discoveries from China World Cinema

In a precarious era, Cheuk remarks on the function of “middle-aged lady” and riffs on immigration, marriage, social networks and more.

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A ballet film. An ancient Chinese legend tells of the love between the brave young man Yanchang Liu and the fairy Shengmu San, guardian of the unquenchable magic lantern.

Go on an enriching journey from Mexico to Spain, onto Austria and then to China via Greece in these five moving short films where gay men overcome various obstacles in accepting who they are, and where they are going - things can only get better. The 5 short films are: If They Knew [Berak baleki] (2021); Xutaj (2022); Boom and Bloom [Neuzeit] (2022); Sexual Distancing (2022); And We Collide [潮汐平行时] (2021).

Lily is a young girl, who appears to be introverted, melancholy and timid. She couldn't decide where she should stay during the summer vacation of high school. Then, she took a coin and threw it into the air to decide whether to go to her mother's or father's place. Ever since junior high school started, she has used coins to decide on her "home" every summer vacation. Lily, who stayed at home, lost every day of vacation to boredom. One day she was in the paragliding field and met a girl named Lili who was bold, free and self-assertive. Her life turned upside down with the curious love of adolescence and girls' fooling around with each other...

Based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol.

Zhao Dawei, the son of the village’s richest man, competes with Chen Tianyu, the capital's first secretary, over a pilot project. Their rivalry sparks chaos, but Dawei is inspired to join forces with Tianyu to tackle the village’s poverty and pave the way for a better future.

A People's Liberation Army division in Xinjiang in 1951 aids in a water conservancy project.

This film narrates the tragic events that unfolded at Jiabian Gou Farm from 1958 to December 1960, resulting in the deaths of over two thousand individuals due to exhaustion and starvation. Originally a labor reform farm housing prisoners in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, Jiabian Gou Farm was transformed in 1958 into a facility for re-educating labor inmates. It also took in over three thousand individuals labeled as rightists from Gansu, including university professors, county-level officials, military officers, professionals from various industries, and teachers from different schools. Amid the political terror of the Great Leap Forward, extravagant claims flourished, and an atmosphere of self-preservation and selective reporting of positive news prevailed. This environment led to instances of cannibalism being overlooked, even as people continued to starve to death.

Zero One is a code-based generative video commissioned by Zero One Technology Festival 2018 in Shenzhen, PR China. This project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.

This film tells of a young girl who grew up in a snack bar in the old city but was full of stubbornness and a beautiful and self-proclaimed Bai Fumei school flower. Because of an accident, a completely different life was exchanged. They hate each other, but have to carry each other's body forward. In the contradiction and playfulness from time to time, from tit-for-tat to tacit understanding; in the adventure of exchanging life, understand what it means to help others to achieve themselves! Eventually realized their dreams, won the school flower crown, and inherited the cultural essence of their ancestors. More importantly, I have known different people and realized growth and transformation!

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The milk ordered by a man's family is always being stolen. He doesn't know who to blame. Could it be the pregnant woman who is always smoking, the dirty homeless man, or the kid with the toddler tiger hat?

In 19th-century China, during the corrupt Qing Dynasty, the people are suffering at the hands of greedy landlords, crooked officials, and unwelcome invaders. To bring his people together, Chen Xiang opens a martial arts school combining teaching techniques from both the North and the South. When Chen refuses to join the armies of the Qing Prince, the prince seeks revenge on Chen's school and family. To survive, Chen must rise up and fight to free his students and protect his home.

The film mainly tells the story of the village party branch secretary Guo Dahe who has been fighting on the front line of poverty alleviation for many years. After graduation from university, his daughter Guo Xiaohe returned to the countryside with advanced ideas and advanced concepts. The father and daughter fought side by side on the road of poverty alleviation and moved forward. s story.

The coral in the mediterranean form unique underwater habitats, usually between 30–150m deep. These ecosystems support more than 1,800 species but have been decimated by destructive bottom trawling fishing, which can flatten centuries-old coral structures in minutes. RAZOR’s Russell Beard meets Anastasia Miliou and her team of scientists at the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation. They have been mapping coral to provide the hard scientific evidence needed to secure their long-term protection. Their work has led to the recent creation of a protected no-trawl zone around the Fourni Islands. Over the years the organization has developed into one of the Mediterranean's most respected marine research and conservation institutes, attracting a new generation of scientists tooling up for a future of fighting the colossal challenges facing our seas. Over 26 years, they have hosted over 27,000 young people from 43 countries.

On May 12, 2008, Sichuan province suffered a devastating earthquake with thousands of deaths and many more injured and displaced. School buildings constructed from substandard materials, by corrupt government officials and contractors, collapsed, causing thousands of children to lose their lives. The buildings were described as tofu-dregs buildings because of the ease in which they structurally collapsed. Ai Weiwei and a team of volunteers traveled extensively throughout the areas of devastation, researching and documenting all the student deaths. In the aftermath of the quake, the collapsed school buildings were cleared out, the twisted steel rebar pulled out and sent to scrapyards. Ai acquired many tons of the twisted rebar, sending the material to his studio in Beijing where craftsmen meticulously straightened each piece of rebar.

Changfeng Town is located in an inconspicuous corner of China. The townspeople are unique and full of eccentricities. Each has a story of their own. A few mischievous boys wander in and out of these little stories.

A video game nerd must beat through the game in order to time travel and meet his ex-girlfriend once more before they were apart.

A group of graduating students, head to a resort to celebrate. Once there, they start to encounter a series of bizarre and strange events. The first love of Su Liang, who died unexpectedly, starts to appear in visions and launches a bloody trail of vengeance on the friends. They panic and try to escape before an unsettling secret is unearthed.

An expedition team accidentally triggered a device left behind by aliens on Earth while exploring an underwater cave, which set off a series of bizarre events. The aliens find Li Chenlong, hoping he will help them return to Planet Sairo, because Li Chenlong's ancestor was once gifted a "key" by the aliens' ancestor—a key that can activate the "Forbidden Book of Heaven" device. Consequently, Li Chenlong and the aliens embark on a bizarre and perilous journey to find this "key."

Confronted with a class of cheating students, a young Chinese professor decides on a course of action that threatens to undermine the entire school system and expose the tangles of deceit in her own life.

Chinese drama from 1980.

After recently going blind, a young gay man struggles to navigate his new life in the shadows.

Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 year-old veteran of the Chinese Red Army, who calmly relates how he has navigated his country’s turbulent history over three-quarters of a century.Born to a wealthy family in a foreign concession, Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project, and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deep-rooted corruption.

WU, a desperate man struggling between survival and kindness. Trying to repay his own debts by all means necessary, he blockaded the Shaanxi rural lodging of siblings LI, hoping to force their father home to repay his loan to WU. Despite causing him endless headaches, the siblings’ simple-mindedness as well as naturally-born compassion is transformative on WU. Ran away from other creditors who successfully tracked him down, WU re-appeared at the LI’s shabby lodging on Chinese New Year’s Eve and made an unexpected choice.

A kung fu fighting lady detective travels the bad lands of ancient China bringing criminals to justice.

A young woman was brutally killed at home. The security guard who admired her set foot on the journey to find the real murderer, but the matter is far more complicated than imagined. With further investigation, Liang Chen discovered that her death was related to the murderer who killed his friend ten years ago.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, wars continued, and the evil person Wang Liniang was killing people. The crazy Jianghu warlock Mao Bupo and his apprentices Bai Qi and Bai Yuan chased the evil spirits to Heling City. Bai Qi defeated Wang Liniang and the two-headed snake. Wang Liniang’s dying last words and The logo made Mao Bupo feel puzzled, thinking of the many years of massacres.

Mofei, a rebellious girl raised by a single parent, is driven by her passion for dance. She secretly transfers to the street dance department at a modern music academy, keeping her decision hidden from her father. There, she befriends Lin Miaomiao, Shengmei, and Yu Xiaoman, and becomes involved in a love triangle with two boys, Cui Junhao and Jiang Chao, leading to a series of humorous and unexpected events.

After an accident, Li Xin ends up with her deceased school friend’s parents. She stays there for a couple of days to recover. Her stay brings consolation, but also rips open old wounds.

Chinese film directed by Gang Xia.

Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying fall passionately in love, but after he saves her family, Madame Cui breaks her pledge to wed them, leaving Yingying torn between desire and duty.

A couple, about whom nothing is known, finds itself forced to live in the abyss of the end of time-a time when a mysterious fog encompassed all our societal and moral achievements with unequivocal cruelty.