CathayPlay InstitutionTag: Documentary
1428
2009
At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, the Great Sichuan Earthquake struck. On the 10th day after the earthquake, devastation was…
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…
A Meal at Chen
2020
It is recommended to watch “Catch the Ghost” first, then watch the film. On the third day of the first…
A Zoo with a Bronze Bull
2019
One day there were dark clouds, the Zoo with a Bronze Bull was deserted and the animals were deathly pale….
Absurd
2015
Police station is a messy place, there are the police and the masses. The police often couldn’t solve the difficulties…
Ants Dynamics
2019
Wang Chuyu, an artist from Beijing, returned home in 2018. He took part in China telecom workers’ rights protection campaigns…
Artificial Ocean
2021
The cry of the ocean is often heard from the aquarium in the suburbs. Mermaids can be seen dancing beneath…
Behind the Smile
Behind the Smile is an interview-focused documentary that takes a look at my friend Eden and explores what daily life…
Chinese Closet
2010
Homosexuals are always in an awkward position, hidden in the closet, hiding not only their sexual orientation, but also the…
Flying On Land
2022
Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary…
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…
Frame
2020
A documentarian, who always can’t capture the most important footage, tries to use documentary film to understand her grandfather’s death….
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…
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…
On the Road
2010
Only a few days before the Spring Festival of 2018, several truck drivers set off from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, to…
Setting Sun
2023
In the rural areas of Northeast China, as the Chinese New Year is approaching, children come to their grandfather’s house…
Shattered
2011
Tang Caifeng (also known as Tang Xiaoyan) has been away from home for many years and involved in prostitution and…
Summer
2014
The short film recorded a group of children living status in a brick factory.Their parents work here to earn money.Because…
The Blind Storytellers
2014
Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living…
The Cold Winter
2010
From the end of 2009 to the beginning of 2010, Beijing 798 art zone was undergoing a relocation. Surprisingly, some…
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 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)…
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…