CathayPlay InstitutionNon-Fiction
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…
Church Cinema
2008
In the summer of 2007, Gan Xiaoer led an independent film projection team, using projectors and self-made screens, to tour…
Classmates
2009
Twenty plus classmates look back into the past, tracing back through a 30 year history. One after another adapts to…
Climb
2019
In April 2018, 15 Chinese people set foot at the base camp on the south slope of Mount Qomolangma in…
Contemporary Shroud Fashion
1998
Li Wake travelled to Beijing in June 1998 with a desperate post-modernist passion and had models dressed in his “shroud…
Cross Road
2020
Crossroad is an abandoned village in the west of Beijing. The travel loving poet A Jian and his old partner…
Crust
2010
We see people crawling on the ground like ants in a world of giant steel and cold, a desolate world…
Cutting my teeth
2020
This film mainly records the story of two adolescent children receiving primary education of Peking Opera in Shanghai Opera School…
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…
Daxing is on fire
2019
Daxing is on fire, and the shacks are in crises. In November 2017, a fire in a cold storage warehouse…
Day After Day
2020
There is a group of people living in a shabby bungalow on the outskirts of Paris. In order to survive,…
Dialogue
2014
The film records the dialogue and thinking between different ethnic groups such as Tibetans, Uygurs, and Hans in China. The…
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,…
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…
Dopamine
2019
A bunch of indie filmmakers came to the grassland，everybody stayed in a tent, just open their mind and be sincere….
Dragon Boat
2011
The filming began in 2001 and lasted for ten years, recording the story of the dragon boat in Lianxi Village…
Dream Walking
2006
“The disorder of our world resembles that of our hearts.” Following on from floating dust, this is the second part…
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…
Export My Love
2020
In China, it is hard for a divorced or widowed woman to find a good new husband, especially for those…
Factory Boy
2014
In 1978 Deng Xiaoping set up Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in China, and this decision led to the…
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…
Farewell 1988
2022
On September 30, 2021, musician Yiran Zhao died of illness, ending his legendary life. He lived passionately, loved deeply, and…
Feathers, a Coin, and the Organ
2019
When a coin falls into an ancient city of Langzhong with the sound of the wind organ, it seems to…
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…
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…
Fish Story
2013
She Weihao and Huang Junxiu are a pair of “best, best and greatest” friends. In Tai Kok Tsui Fresh Fish…
Five Elements
2021
Everything in the world is divided into five substances: metal, wood, water, fire, and soil, which are composed of metals,…
Floating Dust
2004
This film describes the life of some ordinary people in a small town in southern China. Among them, there is…
Flood
2008
Dayu Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty and is located in the north of Zhouyuan Village, Sudong Township, Hancheng…
Flying Geese
2019
Tianqin Lang Li Enping, born in rural areas, was born in the 90s and studied music performance at a certain…
Flying On Land
2022
Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary…
Foolish Village
2014
This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I…
Fortune Teller
2009
Half a lifetime alone, Li Baicheng is a folk fortune-teller. At the age of 40, he met a disabled Shi…
Four fragments
2020
The film is composed of clips of footage shot in 2010-2015. The first clip: filmed in 2015, the daily study…
Free Fall
2022
On the eve of 2020, a group of performance artists from around the world gathered in Inner Mongolia. They plan…
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…
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…
Fu-jia’s Home Movie
2012
Fu-Jia the farmer grows lemons on a riverside flood-land. He borrowed a camera in 2009, saying that he would make…
Game Theory
2011
In the spring of 2005, a company wanted to build a factory on the cultivated land of Maying Village, and…
Generation Z
2021
In September 2019, a photo of Pang Maokun, the dean of Sichuan Fine Arts, giving a lecture on human sketching…
Girl in wheelchair
2017
In Yuncheng County, Shandong, there is a girl born in the 90s named Han Wenjing who was paraplegic in a…
Go Grandriders
2012
On November 13, 2007, under the promotion of the Hongdao Welfare Foundation for the Elderly, 17 elderly people with an…
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…
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…
Gone East Outside ChaoBai
2021
This film focuses on the largest art gathering area in China – Songzhuang Painter Village China In 2020, Boxer Explosion,…
Goodbye Grandma,Goodbye
2022
The family’s normal life was suddenly broken by a phone call, and Mother was told that Grandma had fallen and…
Gurnai
2019
This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran…
Havana Divas
2019
Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong Gutierrez learned the art of Cantonese opera in the1930s in Havana. Caridad’s mentor was her…
Heidi in China
2020
In 1946, my Chinese grandfather entrusted my mother to a Swiss family. But he never came to take her back….
Her Summer
2020
Two years ago, I accidentally met Zhuoma, a young girl who loves to dance while shooting with a teaching team….