CathayPlay InstitutionAnthropology Film
1428
2009
At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, the Great Sichuan Earthquake struck. On the 10th day after the earthquake, devastation was…
A Clear Sky
2012
On the Mongolian plateau, the Geritu family fought against flying snow to cut camel hair, deliver calves, feed newborn calf…
Along the Railway
2000
In the Spring Festival of 2000, a group of homeless people gathered on the garbage platform near the railway station…
AOLUGUYA, AOLUGUYA
2007
Far away from the noisy Greater Khingan Range, a legendary nation Reindeer Ewenki lived there for generations. Coming from more…
Bachelor Mountain
2011
In the forest of Heilongjiang Province, the top north of China, timber supplies have dwindled after a century of logging…
Before the Flood
2005
In order to build the world’s largest hydropower station - China Yangtze River Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the Yangtze River…
Beyond the mountains
2018
Daqi Village is located in Shichao Township, Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. The village has…
Bing’ai
2007
With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have…
Blang Doctor
2020
Chen came from a family of herbal doctors, who have treated numerous orthopaedics dseases, severe and minor. Chen’s house, hardly…
Bobby’s Factory
2022
Bobby, a Nigerian, has lived in China for twelve years. He and his Chinese wife opened a factory making cosmetics…
CHEN LU
2005
Painter Lin Xin tells the story of a thousand-year-old ceramic town in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau in this…
Chinese Meet Africa
2022
The documentary series Chinese Meet Africa is co-directed by Zhang Yong, a scholar specialized in African films and images at…
Chronicles of Hulling Rice
2011
In the sound of rice huller, the rice falls to the jar; and in the booming sound of thunder, the…
Divine Doctor
2011
Guan Kuanyi is seventy-six years old this year, and is the only surviving shaman of the Elunchun. Every first or…
Doctor Ma's Country Clinic
2018
In Huangyangchuan Town, Gulang County, Gansu Province, a village doctor, Ma Bingcheng, appeared, who is highly praised by villagers. In…
Dragon Boat
2011
The filming began in 2001 and lasted for ten years, recording the story of the dragon boat in Lianxi Village…
Eastbank Westbank
2021
“Eastbank • Westbank” documents our exploration of the old and newly built parts of Peitian Village (Fujian Province). We also…
Exile
2021
Su Dongming, nicknamed “Cousin”, is a primary school student in Lan Indiyao on the Sino-Vietnamese border. In the eyes of…
Falling From the Sky
2011
Little-known Suining county lies directly in the path of falling debris from the Xichang Satellite Launching Base, one of three…
Fangshan Church
2005
More than a decade ago, in a remote little town named Fangshan, in the north of Jiangsu Province, with the…
Ferry Chronicle - He Family
2019
At the end of the 1990s, about 40-50 million industrial workers were laid off in China, and the family population…
Ferry Chronicle - Zhou Family
2020
This documentary, edited over a period of six years, spans 20 years in the lifetime of three families of workers…
Fire is burning
2023
Before and after the release of the new crown epidemic prevention and control, the two elementary school students on the…
From Old Man to Child
2022
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, on the Sino-Vietnamese border in Yunnan Province, there is a Yao village called Lengpo. The…
Game Theory
2011
In the spring of 2005, a company wanted to build a factory on the cultivated land of Maying Village, and…
Go with the Flow
2023
The Dan people living on the Jiulong River in Fujian,China, have made a living from fishing for generations and their…
Goodbye, Mum
2023
Ainiannian,“Ai（亻厓）”means “My”in Hakka dialect,and I call my mother“Niannian（嬭嬭）” in Hakka dialect. This is a private image in memory of my…
Hundreds Tin Pots Feast
2021
“Hundreds Tin Pots Feast” is a folk custom of Hakka people in West Fujian, also known as Protection Rite of…
I Am Zhuang
2020
Beixnuengx means compatriot in the Zhuang language. I was born and raised in the city. Although I am Zhuang (China’s…
Immortals in the Village
2017
In a cold mountain village of the northeastern China, there’s a locally famous Shaman Xu. In his youth, he had…
Letter from Xiaobei
2017
A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special…
Lost Mountain
2013
Gei Libao, the former Olunchun hunter raised more than 100 Hunting horses in the traditional way. Although hunting was banned,…
Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
2019
In southwestern Hunan where the local economy is not active, people either go to cities to work or mine the…
Myanmar Bride: A story of A zhen, Ma Yong & Han’Ai
2016
Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwestern border of China, is home to many women who married…
Oh, the San Xia
2012
In 2010, the Three Gorges Dam on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River stored water to 175 meters, marking…
Old Genealogy
2010
Record the entangled experience for changing the genealogy. Record the experience for engraving movable type, hand-printed….
Ordinary Corner
2022
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, Yunnan Province, on the China-Vietnam border, there is a mountain village primary school. On one…
People's Park
2012
People’s Park is a 75-minute single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in…
Philosopher in the Mountains
2023
This film tells the story of Zhao Xiaolong, a young man from the Yao ethnic group on the Sino-Vietnamese border…
RED WHITE
2009
A small rural township called Red White was seriously devastated by the May 12th Earthquake in China 2008. A 62-year-old…
Religion
2006
Huangyangchuan township, Gulang County, Gansu province. In a village, two members of a family died in accidents in a short…
Revive
2012
Geomancy is to say hinding winds to gain water. The earth is mother , burial brings peace to the deceased,…
Seedlings Protection Rite
2019
Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in…
Songhua
2007
The Songhua River runs through Harbin, the capital of China’s Heilongjiang province, and serves as the city’s main water source….
Spring Cattle Festival
2020
This film records this folk custom in 2017. Every year around the Beginning of Spring in the lunar calendar, Zhang…
Survival Song
2018
Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of…
Swinging Mud Buddha
2020
In Juh e village, Tongfang town, Changting county, Fujian province, the lord Guan (Xietian the great) visits the fields on…
The Disappearing Camel Caravan
2017
People call those who haul camels to and from desert areas and take camel transportation as their profession camel caravans….
The Iron Ministry
2014
Filmed for three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors and thick gestures of a country…
The Last Moose of Ao Lu Gu Ya
2013
The moose is the largest animal of the Great Xingan Mountains. Mighty, sensitive, and majestic, he has been hunted and…
The Longwang Chronicles: a Year of Lifes in a Chinese Village
2009
Unusually popular religions and extreme secular beliefs, unconstrained power and no authoritarian society, people work hard on the land and…
The Nuo parade
2012
On the thirteenth of the first month of each year, Xiafang Village, Anle Township, even in the cold and rain,…
The Road
2015
A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was…
The story of mushroom picking
2012
In the mountains of western Fujian, mushrooms emerge in large numbers after rain. Hakka people pick mushrooms up the mountain…
The Yukou Paper
2009
As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named…
The Yukou Paper II
2022
“Yukou Paper” is a kind of traditional handmade paper in Ninghua, which is located in northwest of Fujian province. “Yu”…
Theflower-drumSong
2013
The arrogant Hua Pozi, the first-time brother who is full of joy. Even the seemingly greasy, exaggerated, and gaudy drum…
Timber Gang
2006
Forests have been exploited for a living for over a century here. Due to the huge transportation inconveniences, people here…
Treasure, Orientation and the Ancestors
2021
The Four-Day Taiping Qing Jiao is celebrated from the second to the fifth day of the ninth month on the…
Umbrella
2007
Pay attention to the five-part documentary about the current farmers trying to break free from the land. Each paragraph is…