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A Story about Finding
2021
A second grade pupil Maomao, living in the border area between China and North Korea, found 34 certificates with a…
A Tree in Tanjung Malim
2004
A fictional autobiographical sketch from the director’s youth. A seventeen-year-old girl skipped school and came to Kuala Lumpur. She had…
My Life against Taiwan Sotokufu --1891-1931
2012
“My Life Against Taiwan Sotofuku – 1891~1931” is Taiwan’s first biographical animated documentary. The film combines animation, archival photos, footage,…
A Dog Barking at the Moon
2019
Coming back to her broken family, pregnant writer Huang Xiaoyu and her French husband, Benjamin, finds herself trapped between her…
A Life in Six Chapters
2022
A Life in Six Chapters presents a visual portrait of Xiao Jun (1907-1988), a left-wing Chinese writer who befriended the…
Almost In Life
2010
This is a film, but also a journey. In the indifferent poetic journey of director Tai Ting, I meet people…
Areca
2017
At night, neon lights are flashing and sitting in a betel nut stand are the Cao sisters. The industry is…
At the Time
2017
In the Chinese New Year of 2017, Solar and I went together to visit David Zhang who was practicing kung…
Babe
2020
Hee-Jung and Han-Seul, a 7-year-old couple, want to have their own child and find the best sperm donor….
Between the lies
2017
In 1960, China was in the age of famine, father and daughter living in poor rural areas together. Living in…
Bi China
2017
Bisexuals. Who are they? What lives do they lead? How do they feel about coming out? What are their thoughts…
Bing’ai
2007
With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have…
Blame On The Girls
An attempt….
Blossom in Midnight
2015
The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with…
Born Wasted
2017
The frustrated painter decided to burn his failed paintings. Unexpectedly, when the paintings burned down, they turned into paper cranes…
Chang’E
2021
Wearing the costume of a traditional Chinese goddess — Chang’e — XIAOXIANG CHANG hands out leaflets in a store. However,…
Children's Village
2012
This film is the third one I have made for the People’s Memory Project, returning again to the same village….
Company of Mushrooms
2006
The whole film is mainly a conversation between four big men in one night, and the entanglement of the relationship…
Daughter of Shanghai
2019
The dramatic tale of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break to the West. From celebrity’s daughter…
Desire Line
2018
“Desire Line” was originally an architect’s term for paths made by people when walking across open grassland, what these lines…
Dialogue between Blue & Green
2013
Taiwan’s democracy and freedom are generally envied by the Chinese world. At the same time, Taiwan’s blue-green dispute often casts…
Dialogue Inhibition
2020
Dialogue Inhibition" is a video installation by Dan Ningsuan. The wood that I carbonized, with its texture under the flame,…
Dragon Boat
2011
The filming began in 2001 and lasted for ten years, recording the story of the dragon boat in Lianxi Village…
Drifted In Life
2021
Grandpa fell in a public bathroom and suffered a central nervous system rupture. The hospital suggested that he should prepare…
EEL
2018
Amidst Taipei’s humid and cold winter, amidst a world where people said relationships were made from illusions and ambiguities, SHU…
Everyday Everyday
2009
Sook Chen quit her job. She decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, he could…
Export My Love
2020
In China, it is hard for a divorced or widowed woman to find a good new husband, especially for those…
Fengling in the Darkroom
2023
In the dark and crowded room, two “strange” girls had chemistry in a conversation….
First Vote
2020
FIRST VOTE is a character-driven vérité documentary about four Chinese Americans’ first-time voting and organizing from the 2016 presidential election…
Fish Memory and Sheep Memory
2019
A Muslim living in a non-Muslim region of China. It attempts to explore the relationship between ethnic, cultural background and…
Foolish Village
2014
This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I…
Frame
2020
A documentarian, who always can’t capture the most important footage, tries to use documentary film to understand her grandfather’s death….
From Dark Matters
2020
Reading a voice from a grandmother’s moment of insomnia, the film traces the reconstruction of a personal memory in this…
Gold Underground
2011
Yulin, once the poorest region of Northwest China, has rapidly become “China’s Kuwait” for the mining industry launched in recent…
Golden Gate Girls
2013
Esther Eng (1914-1970) was once known as “the only Chinese-American female director in Hollywood”. Early in her life, she made…
Golden Gate Girls (Bilingual Version)
2014
Hong Kong’s first “directress” was a San Francisco native and an open lesbian. Esther Eng (1914-1970) was a true pioneer…
Her Story
2021
In an extremely abstract society, the firework is strictly prohibited, and males are castrated as a means of reproduction. A…
Her Summer
2020
Two years ago, I accidentally met Zhuoma, a young girl who loves to dance while shooting with a teaching team….
Hidden
2023
Jiang Nan accidentally found a candid camera in the company’s women’s toilet. Some people choose to gloat, some choose not…
Hubble Bubble
After quitting her actress job, Riiko lives with Masao, an illustrator. At the same time, Mito, a childhood friend and…
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…
I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore
2021
Thirty-year-old Viv Li is studying art in Belgium and hasn’t lived in her native China for ten years. During the…
I Wish You Happy Moon Festival
2021
One overseas phone call, but one phrase was lost to the receiver of the call….
K872
2022
After grandpa’s death, mom convinced my grandmother to go on a long journey for the first time in her life….
Kennels
2022
Kennels is a documentary film directed by Ouyue and starring by Zhang Jiajing and Labrador “Daimeng”. It was broadcast in…
LEI
2022
Lei Lei is a female experimental artist. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she visited a sperm bank in order…
Live Of Rotten Life
2019
On August 21, 1942, while the Japanese “Expeditionary Team” immediately retreated with ground troops, they scattered anthrax on fields, grasses,…
Lost Train Lost Days
2022
I followed a two-day, overnight train ride to the depths of my memory, chasing a conductor who wanted to escape…
Love Conquers All
2006
Ping (Coral Ong Li Whei) has come from Penang in the north to Kuala Lumpur to work with her aunt….
Lucie
2016
After a big fight, teenage girl Lucie steals her boyfriend’s motorcycle for revenge. She rides out but later realizes the…
Lush Reeds
2018
Newly married journalist Xia Yin moved into her husband’s apartment. However, her not-so-sweet newlywed life, as well as the suicide…
Mariposa Apartment
2021
At the end of 2019, in the Mariposa Apartment, I recorded the sound of my boyfriend and I arguing. The…
Millionaire In Checkfun
2011
The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small checks to display…
Miss A
2014
Based on a true story, the film takes its inspiration from the opposition protest Xu Tong’s Wheat Harvest met. The…
My AI Lover
2022
During their special “dates” with their artificially intelligent companions, three young Chinese women reflect on the uniqueness and boundaries of…
My Milk Cup Cow
2014
The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it…
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…
Mysterious Object At Noon
2020
In Luxi county, southeastern Yunnan province, a dead body had been burned . The murdered man’s parents, who were unaware…
Never Fear, And You Will Be Lucky
2019
Southside Chicago. Crime reports. A Chinese woman. An investigation.The filmmaker, as a newcomer, explored southside Chicago through the filming of…
Nice to Meet You
2018
Graduate student Yi-wen gets on the wrong train and meets a former classmate from her past, Wei-chiang, who is now…