Discoveries from China World Cinema

Xu Li, a middle-aged housewife, accepted an invitation from her junior high school classmates to escape her dull and stagnant life this spring, but she was unable to heal her body and get rid of her sick home.

The story takes place in the pre-liberation southwestern borderlands, where two well-dressed young men are welcomed on a winding path in the deep mountains. They are Qi Yuanjing and Zhou Luo, spies sent by the police department, disguised as merchants to find out the reality of a group of cunning bandits. As twilight approaches, the two men make their way to the secluded Purple Cloud Taoist Temple. The Taoist master, Shou Jing, shows the two of them in, but the meticulous Qi Yuanjing discovers a series of suspicious things inside the Taoist temple. The Taoist master blinks at the queries raised by Qi. Before long, they saw horrific ghostly figures in a nearby attic. According to the Taoist priest's account, a tragic war once took place here two hundred years ago, so whenever it rained, ghosts would come out and roam around.

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Graduation season is here again. Faced with the stress of losing "freedom", the four handsomely riched (gaofushuai) - Qin Zheng Jan, Leng Feng, Nan Gong Jian and Zheng Hao Yu decide to find their destined lady with a game. Their encounter with different girls redefined what love and life mean to them as they advanced from adolescence to maturity. Facing their lives already decided by their parents, they no longer accept it unsaid. Instead, they dare to go after their dreams. In addition, the appearance of a unique boy named Huang Yi Fan, who came from a totally different world, influenced and changed their decisions. This is an extraordinary graduation season. This is a frenzied graduation season. This is a journey of the change in love seeking that is filled with pain and true love.

The main feature of the film is suspense and horror, which brings together the Chinese and Japanese ghost culture. The battle between the two forces makes the film process endless surprises. The high-profile and sophisticated production make this movie a rare online movie. For the first time in the film, the two roles of Zhenzi and Dixian are set up to be a forceful confrontation, which adds to the viewability of the film. Humanized processing, suspense upgrades, scientific and reasonable explanations, and just right horror effects have brought the film back to a very rational logic. The protagonists are all eye-catching, handsome men and beautiful women, dressed in uniform campus uniforms, fresh and beautiful, so that some male audiences are impeccable on "Zhengzi vs. Dixian"

944 AD. In order to realize his ambitions, the ambitious prince destined to create a powerful "drug general", a righteous young girl who was good at making poisonous insects, which caused many innocent villagers to be poisoned

In the city of Suzhou, the demon seized the rule, the mage protected the people, and opposed the demon clan, but overnight, with the unidentified millennium green snake emerged, the monsters died mysteriously, and humans were also panic-stricken. The new mage Fan Hai shot down the demon, but unexpectedly discovered the secrets of the monsters encircling the millennium snake demon. For a time, the wind of Suzhou City was surging, and the terrifying conspiracy hidden behind "peace" surfaced.

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.

The weak and counseling Ye Xiaodie was a carefree disciple of Xianwumen, but in order to prevent his sister from marrying the Crown Prince Yan Guo as a side concubine, he resolutely embarked on the road to find the divine seal of the former dynasty. Along the way, mysterious and dangerous, Xiaodie could become stronger as he was beaten. It turned out that there was a demon inside him. In the end, Xiaodie bravely defeated foreign enemies and demons and became the strong!

In 1948, a small county near Shanghai. Celebrity Su Yaoqian appears to be doing things that are fair and righteous, but secretly exploits and persecutes the poor. Su Agen, a sugar vendor, has been under the loan sharking of Su Yaoqian for several years. He has a beautiful fiancée, Erbao, and does not want to be attracted by Su Yaoqian.

A Red Army reconnaissance team embarks on a vital mission to cross Mount Jiajin, the first major snow-capped mountain of the Long March. Along the way, they engage in fierce battles with the Nationalist army and confront mountain bandits. In a surprising turn of events, they find themselves forming unexpected alliances. As they navigate challenges and dangers, their journey becomes a test of courage and resilience, leading to a significant milestone in their quest.

Chinese film directed by Mao Xiaorui.

In China the marriage ritual is not a matter of a boy and a girl who are in love with each other and want to officially confirm their relationship. The protocol consists of six stages that must be completed according to the rules: the proposal, the negotiations, the engagement, the cognisance of the birth dates of the betrothed couple to ratify the marital relationship, a visit to the fortune-teller for the most favourable wedding date, and finally the wedding ceremony. MARRIAGE follows a marriage broker during the extensive, complicated and relentless negotiations for two marriages, somewhere in the southwest of China, between Jian and Qiong, and between Yu and Zhao. In addition, the film depicts the daily life in the villages, which is filled with manual labour on the land (the men) and around the house (the women). The film ends with the wedding celebrations, when the bride is carried across the mountains to her future husband’s house in an adorned, closed palanquin.

Lili, who hasn't seen her father for a decade, comes back to her hometown. Her father, Jixiang, who has mental problems for years, lives in the village with his mother. As Jixiang's mother has passed away, the family start discussing Jixiang's future.

A story about a little lazy cat, Mimi, who was bullied by a group of mice because of his laziness and lack of practice. The story is humorous and educational.

Amateur boxer Qin Sheng witnessed his father's sudden death in the ring at a young age and left a psychological shadow. After encountering Cheng Kexin, a trainee veterinarian who wants to get rid of the marriage contract, he overcomes many obstacles together, and finally grows up, harvests beautiful love, and realizes his dream.

The violinist Shen Xinyi (Guo Shaozhen) and his wife accidentally lost the three-year-old child Bai Xiaolin (Zhou Yongyong) in a play, and was adopted by the good-hearted Bai Jianguo of the Buyi people. Ten years later, Bai Xiaolin stumbled upon his own life in the pursuit of musical dreams. He also found his own parents and family reunion through music because of his connection with the violin.

This film shows the legend of the Martial artist Dongfang Xu. Dongfan Xu takes Shenzhang Li as his master to learn the Eight Trigram Palm. In order to rescue Yu Rong, his daughter, he defeats the Russian Hercules, who kidnaps Yurong.

Xiao Shuang had a difficult childhood and he has learned to fend for himself at a young age, developing a dual personality in the process. He is the catalyst that moves the entire story forward in a depiction about the motivations, hopes and dreams of young men and women in the city.

On a gloomy day, Gu takes a train back to his hometown for the first time in years to reunite with his wife and son, in court.

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Red Leopard is the ace squad of the special forces. During an anti-drug operation at the border, they encounter a counterattack by transnational drug traffickers and the captain dies. After the Red Leopard members are successively discharged from the army, Jiang Zhi goes undercover in the drug dealing kingdom, determined to avenge their captain. Meanwhile, Ke Bei and his comrades open a military training base, living a stable life. However, a threatening video concerning Jiang Zhi's survival once again fills him with righteous indignation, spurring him to fight to the very end with the overseas gang.

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In autumn 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign, Xie Yanfei, a reconnaissance chief, infiltrated Hekou City with driver Xiao Wang, using Lou A’mei as cover. Discovering the local Party organization was compromised, he sought his childhood sweetheart, Xia Cailian, who had joined the enemy’s service corps. They met secretly at Lou A’mei’s, but the enemy grew suspicious. After a firefight, Xie was wounded, and Xiao sacrificed himself. Xie escaped into a lake and was rescued by Xia Cailian, who recognized him as her former lover. Despite their past, Xie maintained secrecy and left without revealing their identities.

Yang Fudong, one of the most influential contemporary artists in China, is known for his epic black-and-white films and photographs, which straddle the worlds of contemporary art installation and cinema. Moving Mountains is a 46-minute, black-and-white film, accompanied by photographs from the film set, drawings and props. The film is inspired by the ancient tale of a man, seeking to move a mountain, and extolls the virtues of perseverance and collective action. The artist makes this story a poetic reflection upon human nature and the shifting values to which it can be subjected.

A group of chinese students talk to the camera about love, sex, career prospects, decisions to stay or leave the country, and the impact events in Tiananmen had had on their lives.

Shuke and Beita are at it again! Follow the mice duo on an exhilarating adventure as they use their skills to stop evil-doers in their city.

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The newest instalment in a series set in a small village in a mountainous region in China. In the winter marking ten years since the director began filming, she tries to get a new building constructed in the village. The girls, who had thus far been the subjects of her films, take up the camera themselves, and begin recording scenes of the village.

Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji are the ‘main characters' in this very personal homemade documentary that's funny, angry, scary and stirring all at once. He's the Japanese director of the film; she's his wife and a prizewinning filmmaker in her own right. For independent artists and filmmakers, finding an affordable place to live with their young daughter is a never-ending struggle. A side effect of China's astonishing prosperity is sky-high property prices – about $10,000 per square metre in Beijing. The landlords, movers and neighbours they encounter seem bent on driving them nuts. But never underestimate the resilience, determination and lung power of enraged, protective young Chinese parents. Otsuka's sometimes concealed camera reveals intimately how life feels, from ground level, in urban China today.

Making-of documentary of Wei Shujun's 2021 film Ripples of Life.

A Xiang and his friends plan to spend the last boring summer vacation in the fishing port by repairing the boat and going to sea. After the summer vacation, Ah Xiang will go to Shanghai to go to university. Lan Lan, the girl Ah Xiang had a crush on, suddenly became popular on the Internet and went to the city. The matter of going to sea is put on hold, and love faces premature death.