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Nini, What Time is it There?
2020
Two young Chinese women drew themselves into an irreconcilable relationship with each other, one in a small town of Southwestern…
Nobody’s Girlfriend
2007
The Short film is made during Tan Chui Mui’s CinefondationResidency in Paris, casting another two residents, Nadav Rapid and Rusudan…
On My Planet
2014
“On my planet” is a short love story. The concept is that everyone owns a little planet. The main character…
On the Road
2010
Only a few days before the Spring Festival of 2018, several truck drivers set off from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, to…
One Summer
2015
Late one night, Zhen Liu’s husband, Shen Xiaoping, was arrested. He’s been missing for over thirty days. Zhen Liu doesn’t…
Open Sky
2015
Two friends reconnect at their childhood haunts in the heartlands. As the night lengthens, their conversations draw out their sense…
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…
Prairie Sisters
The two Mongolian sisters who lived on the grasslands since childhood have been constrained by patriarchal thoughts for many years,…
Pundusina
2018
Adapted from the online comics Pundusina, the story shows Macao’s typical family values and ways of family members getting along…
Push Hands Animation Workshop
2022
During April and May, a workshop that combines push hands and 3D animation making took place in Guangzhou. The workshop…
Rendezvous For the Old
2022
On the east side of the Tian ‘anmen Square, there is a Calamus River Park. Every Tuesday and Saturday, it…
Rotten Girl’s Love
2019
A rotten woman falls in love with a gay man and questions her own identity….
Satiated Village
2011
It is the second documentary of “My Village” series since I joined the “Folk Memory Project” and returned to my…
Seedlings Protection Rite
2019
Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in…
Seven Moons
2023
A lesbian girl Bai got pregnant unexpectedly, and she was in a crisis with her girlfriend which she chose to…
Shadows in Mulan
2019
The animation is about a letter from a south city. The inspiration comes from senior from my hometown, who talks…
Shanghai Youth
2015
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship…
Some Moments, the Night Ends Before the Dawn
2019
In the modernization process of cities that are being demolished and built at an accelerated pace, some people are trapped…
South of South
2005
Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan Province of China have always been called “southland”, and the homeland of the protagonists Malaysia is…
Stella
2017
What does marriage, love, intimacy mean? What should they be? Stella met his long lost lover by chance. He lived…
Still Life
2015
In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The…
Storm under the Sun (Chinese Version)
2009
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
Storm under the Sun (English Version)
2009
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
Summer Behind the Door
2019
A girl who has a hidden affection for her teacher experiences a “fantasy journey” in the face of the shame…
Swallowtail Butterfly
2017
‘Body’ is an object we are all familiar with. For British sculptor Anthony Gormley, it is a medium for expressing…
The Abyss
2019
My inspiration is from the novel Us, which was written by Yevgeny Zamyatin, a Russian writer. In this world, no…
The Big Tree in Front of the House
2020
It should have been an ordinary day but it was anything but usual. There was a large crowd in front…
The Breeze
2019
Several beams of light came to some places at night, and the river goes through memory….
The Corn is Flowering
2015
In a remote rural area of China, a middle-aged man took his father to a hospital to see a doctor….
The District Councillor
2008
The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong – the economy was in recession, the government constantly…
The Foolish Bird
2017
Winter is just about to start in a small town in southern China, when Lynn (16), a ’left-behind’ child who…
The Good Girl
2021
In the summer of 2019, Yin Xiaomei, who was about to suicide by jumping off a building met a homeless…
The Horse Guessing Game
2022
A girl was taken into the city of shadow by a mysterious magician, only to find out that she is…
The Need for Rites
2008
Sook Chen meets a fortune teller on the street. The whole conversation soon becomes unbearable….
The Observer
2019
Dissident artist Hu Jie has managed to make more than 30 documentaries. Films like Though I Am Gone and Searching…
The Portrait of Love
2021
The story takes place between a young couple who is about to get married. The woman misread the size and…
The Renaissance
2020
A young android man traps a madwoman in the attic of the hardware store he owns….
The ShoeShiner's Journey
2015
If someday on a noisy city street or a dusty road of a remote village in China, a battered van…
The Starving Village
2010
One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using…
The Trail From Xinjiang
2013
Musa and his friends, all men, all young, all from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on China’s northwestern border, now wander…
The Transplants
2014
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from…
The Water Will Carry Us
2020
In a village in southern China, a solitary and old carpenter made a wooden framed mirror by hand, but the…
Three Giant Salamanders in the Basement
2022
In the office for reincarnation, “human beings”, through working and ‘feeling’ together, and through negotiation and disagreement, will face two…
To Say Goodbye
2009
A girl falls in love with a classmate. She knows why she loves him, but she wants to find out…
Trash Village
2013
This is the fourth film in my Zoujiacun series within the Folk Memory Project. In 2013, I came back to…
Treatment
As Christmas is approaching, Natalie notices that her mother becomes abnormal. Sometimes she lies on bed all day, while sometimes…
Vicky, I and Herself
2020
Vicky is a young Chinese mural painter at the Warner Bros World’s construction site in Abu Dhabi. At a heightened…
WAITING FOR NOTHINGNESS
2023
“I dream of a man every day, but I have never seen him. I didn’t know who he was, I…
Water Under the Bridge
2023
It was the day the two girls met on tinder match after returning to their hometown Yibin for the holidays….
We Outlaws
2018
In the early 1990s, trans people lived in a world that was unknown. Usually “he” is Chen Shi, an ordinary…
What Can I Hold You With
2021
After missing a meeting with his friend, An insomniacs Qasem roams the city at night again, this time to the…
What If
2019
A series of processes weave a dragnet, covering the lives of animals, and also trapped in the future of human…
When All the Lights Go Out
2019
I burned the text of Hesse’s book of poems and then read it again. The image keeps enlarging and traversing…
When Darkness Comes
2018
A young girl Pui and her father live together leaning on each other for support, but they still feel lonely…
When We Dead Awaken
2022
The young psychic met a wandering soul who could not go to the afterlife, looking for her lost bone scattered…
Who Is Haoran
2006
A group of small-town boys has prepared to beat up on this boy named Haoran for a long while. Belligerent…
Wu Ding River
2007
In northern Shaanxi, those three-wheeled trucks who came to the city from rural areas came to be suffering. They talked…