CathayPlay InstitutionNon-Fiction
The Fly
2009
Liu Peipei is painting in his studio. His model is a young woman. During the process of making his painting,…
The Garden
2010
The documentary “The Garden” focuses on the “old city renovation” project of BaDaHu Residential area in Qingdao. After the film…
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 Lovely Widow and Her Annoying Son
2019
This film is a personal documentary about a son and his mother. Kai is a PHD student, an aspiring filmmaker,…
The Lucky One
2013
In search of one mysterious Chinese woman through encounters with the overseas Chinese community in Portugal….
The Meeting of Souls
The Meeting of Souls is a poetic documentary about a woman called Yazhi Zhou, who works as a counsellor, a…
The Millennium Bug
2022
The Y2K Bug is defined as: at the turn of the century, a computer program to deal with the date…
The Ninth Grade
2014
Class 172 is a key class for their excellent students of an ordinary secondary school in Hunan province, from which…
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 Observer
2019
Dissident artist Hu Jie has managed to make more than 30 documentaries. Films like Though I Am Gone and Searching…
The Other Side
2012
After 30 years of Cold War confrontation between Taiwan and the mainland, people-to-people exchanges began in the 1980s, and the…
The River of Life
I already feel raising the grandma will soon died, I grew up nearly 13 years, she had been thinking away…
The Road
2015
A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was…
The Road
2010
The documentary film, The Road, reveals the status of 22 students who study in a private village school in Hunan…
The Rocking Sky
2015
There used to be a group of young people. Every time they took off, they could be farewell. Every time…
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 Silent Voyage
2003
A Jian, Zhang Chiand Gou Zi took the train from Beijing to Tongliao. They made a promise that no one…
The Son
2015
“If there is any chance, I will let him live well No matter where he is.” The old lady cried…
The Sound Of Silence
2009
Only the dry wind in the wilderness is waiting for the hero to visit again seven years later. This is…
The Spokesperson
2016
Cuizhen is a barber. As a foreigner, she is rejected by the locals. A serious illness ten years ago gave…
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 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 Story of the Stone
2017
A young Italian man came to Wudang mountains in the north of China and stayed in a Taoistic Wushu(martial art)…
The Temple
2013
Several boys who are about to graduate live in the 2006 dormitory. All-day long eating, chatting, playing cards, and playing…
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 Twelve Signs
2022
At the end of 2009, I randomly found 12 post-80s strangers, 6 male and 6 female, who belong to 12…
The Two Shovels
2017
Two shovels caused by a homicide case let the young treasure son in the whirlpool dilemma…..
The Waxing Moon
2020
The collision of eastern culture and Western culture, in the cycle of four seasons, the girl from the dream to…
The Yellow Bank
2010
Watching, waiting, and traversing: a portrait of Shanghai at the confluence of tempestuous weather, looming architecture, and murky waterways during…
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…
Thirty Something
2014
In a small city in northeast China, few people close to their thirties, are facing their own problems: changing jobs,…
Timber Gang
2006
Forests have been exploited for a living for over a century here. Due to the huge transportation inconveniences, people here…
Torch Troupe
2006
“Torch Troupes” got their name from the Cultural Revolution period when traditional Sichuan Opera shows were prohibited in public and…
Transition-Space
2007
This film is an observation of the public space of the areas that link the city and village. It tries…
Trash Village
2013
This is the fourth film in my Zoujiacun series within the Folk Memory Project. In 2013, I came back to…
Trashy Treasure
2010
The term “garbage” is relative, but most people’s definition of garbage is absolute and rigid, and the definition of a…
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…
Treatment
As Christmas is approaching, Natalie notices that her mother becomes abnormal. Sometimes she lies on bed all day, while sometimes…
Turn Around
2020
The film tells about an artist named Banpo, who suddenly returned to Songzhuang one day in 2019, silently packed hundreds…
TWENTY TWO
2017
TWENTY TWO is a last gaze at the 22 “comfort women” survivors in China. Through a restrained and careful approach,…
Umbrella
2007
Pay attention to the five-part documentary about the current farmers trying to break free from the land. Each paragraph is…
Uncle
2017
Li is over 70 years old, he sits in front of his window in the afternoon every day and smokes…
Uncle Guo's Dreamworks
2020
Guo Jiangtao, who is about to enter the year of his establishment, is a person who sells ideals. Once the…
Under The Split Light
2011
Hakkas live in Nanfeng Town with Limiao and Zhangzhou people. Yang Xiaobo is a folk song singer. One day he…
Village Diary
2013
Jiaoyu Village is located in the Yimeng Mountain area. It is a small mountain village that is neither too small…
Village Opera History
2019
The 60s witnesses the quick demoliton of an old temple followed by the erection of an opera theater in Shijia…
Walk in the dark
2005
Bao, a blind woman, sings every day on the streets of Peking to make a living. She is caught up…
Way of Fortune
2007
“Mazu” or “The Sea God” has been the most important religious belief of ordinary people in my hometown for four…
We
2008
The voices in this film are all conscientious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their…
We Are Here
2015
What happens when 300 lesbians from around the world attend the largest United Nations conference? How did two busloads of…
We Wandered Through The Cracks Of The Walls And Were Consumed By The Toilet
2022
Due to Covid-19, exploratory field trips to the countryside turned into school trips. Just when we thought we were going…
Wellspring
2004
Lei Xiguan has had cerebral palsy since early childhood, and communicates with others using his foot. Far from being shut…
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 We Talk About When We Talk About Football
2017
These are conversations I had with four football partners respectively on the way to the football field，on the way back…
Wheat Harvest
2008
In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei,…