CathayPlay InstitutionNon-Fiction
Hi, Pan
2014
For the dream of music, Pan, the folk singer, left home for Guangzhou. Two years ago, he released his first…
Hip-Hop Storm
2008
This is a documentary about two generations of hip-hop. It records Allen’s journey to Paris, France to participate in the…
Home Letter from Veteran
2016
Listening to veterans telling about their past is an extraordinary life experience. Serial one: Chen Baochen; Serial two: Li Sanbao;…
Home School
2013
Here is only one chance in life, and the way of education has a profound impact on the future of…
Homecoming
2014
In a city that worships money, there is a group of people who still insist on living the philosophy of…
Hu’An
2016
The film, as a crystal of seven years observation and three years shooting, recounts the social changes of Xiaoluoshui, a…
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…
Huyang and Zhangdongcui
This film tells a story of two non-Beijing parents, Hu Yang and Zhang Dongcui, who defiantly went to the Ministry…
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….
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…
In the Military Training Camp
2003
Our production unit spent more than 10 days together with some students who were taking a formation drill during their…
Jia Yi
2016
The documentary, “JIAYI”, adopts a particular position from where it objectively and non-discriminatingly uncovers a real world of these left-behind…
Jin Han Yu
2017
The film records a middle-aged woman Han Mei who longs for life. In the fight against the disease, the experience…
KARAMAY (A)
2010
The film opens on the morning of December 8th 2007, in Karamay’s Xiaoxihu cemetery. Daybreak casts a cold grey light…
KARAMAY (B)
2010
The film opens on the morning of December 8th 2007, in Karamay’s Xiaoxihu cemetery. Daybreak casts a cold grey light…
Kennels
2022
Kennels is a documentary film directed by Ouyue and starring by Zhang Jiajing and Labrador “Daimeng”. It was broadcast in…
Late Autumn
2022
The protagonist of the film lives alone on a mountain isolated from the world. After her husband passed away, she…
Learn to Reform
2013
Over the past 20 years, there has been too much comment on the merits of education reform. This film visits…
LEI
2022
Lei Lei is a female experimental artist. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she visited a sperm bank in order…
Letter from Xiaobei
2017
A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special…
Little feet
2006
Xiayao Village, Youyu County, Shanxi ProvinceThe 7-year-old and big-footed Bai Nu and Liu Buhan, both of whom died because of…
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,…
Lone Existence
2016
For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate…
Lost Mountain
2013
Gei Libao, the former Olunchun hunter raised more than 100 Hunting horses in the traditional way. Although hunting was banned,…
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 Talk
2018
Another provocative work by the Taipei Film Festival award-winning director, Shen Ko-shang. He spent the total of seven years documenting…
Ma Pi
2002
The story is about a temple fair in Maoshan Town, Taizhou, Jiangsu. Among them, the activity of horseskin, which is…
Mama Rainbow
2012
For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly…
Man's World
2013
“Man’s World” tells: Liu Renwang, a villager in Yaoyang Village, Zhongyang County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, was wrongly sentenced to…
Memories of Chengdu
2019
After being away for three years, I came back to Chengdu, and saw what had changed and what had remained…
Millionaire In Checkfun
2011
The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small checks to display…
Miners
2010
Having left their poor country lives for their parents, wives and children, the miners go hundreds of metres underground every…
Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
2019
In southwestern Hunan where the local economy is not active, people either go to cities to work or mine the…
Mothers
2012
Zhang Qingmei is the family planning director of the village. The village has a centralized sterilization work once a year,…
Move On
2020
A story about a middle-aged Chinese man who has a big family to support struggles to survive alone in a…
Mr.Tang
2012
This film records Mr. Tang, a 90-year-old retired English teacher living in Zhuhai, Guangdong. It is divided into four parts:…
Mrs Lei
2017
Lei Suyun was born in 1934, and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010. Lei Suyun has forgotten a lot of…
Music and Life
2009
The film spanned six years to chronicle the growth of the Hong Kong piano prodigy Huang Family in music and…
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 Name Is Bai Sanming
2021
Bai Sanming, a Chinese farmer, plays Mao Zedong for a living. This strange and absurd phenomenon has formed a unique…
My Village 2020
2022
As a videographer of the villagers, I felt that this year’s epidemic could be recorded, so I held the camera…
My way of farewell
2019
In order to face his 30th birthday, the author of the film began to implement a long-planned plan on the…
My Wheat
2022
The farmers’ busy summer is impossible to experience without personal experience. I always want to shoot a film recording 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…
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…
New Beijing, New Marriage
2009
On February 14th, 2009, Valentine’s Day, two couples were going to get married on this day. From the early preparation…
New Castle
2009
New Castle is a remote rural village where houses and mountains have been distorted due to excessive mining. Under the…
Ninth Uncle
2014
This documentary aims to show the stories of ordinary people on Zhongshan Road represented by night market manager Ninth Uncle,…
No Destination
2015
The film records a long journey by Guo Kuan and his friends, as well as a post-cycling biography. The changes…
Nobody
2017
Since Dawei Zhang disappeared, a friend of him has revisited the place where they’ve shared their lives together. Psychedelic and…
Noise
2007
Noise has no shot purpose. Everything presented to you by the camera maybe is not entertainment nor reflection, but disorder…
Nostalgia
2019
In March and April of 2019, Zeng Dekuang and I spent more than 20 days traveling. Starting from the Wanzhou…
Nothing Extraordinary About Us
2020
In this documentary, 90 percent of the film was shoot by the director‘s cellphone. It depicts the ordinary and fragmentary…
Nowhere
2019
The Beat poet Chuck Miller, as a young man, was on the road with Kerouac and Neil Cassady, the model…
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….
Old Veterans Never Die
2015
Different veterans, different memories of the Anti-Japanese War, and different lives. The oral narratives of 7 veterans show you the…