This Worldly Life

In rural China, the job of enforcing the Communist Party's one-child policy falls on government bureaucrats tasked with imposing fines, birth control,...

In a cold mountain village in northeastern China,when a peasant gets sick they invite the local shaman to do trance healing. In the village there is S...

This short film shows a quest of two homosexual couples for understanding from the people in their surroundings, through meetings and exchanges on a s...

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was from. Due to the high cost of construction, con...

Wang Wo’s experimental documentary takes the direct cinema approach to the realm of avantgardism, immersing the viewer in a non-narrative, highly sens...

A veteran, Mr. Long’s life was full of legend. Yet, he lived his life in silence and never told others about his experience in the battlefield. There...

Qing Zhou and Xiaozhen Wang came to Huojiacun to visit Wang’s parents at the end of winter. They met the foul-mouthed boy Yongshun, the confused girl...

A desperate man, who is down and out, says that a group of people following him is trying to give the sleepy city a shot in the arm by planting a flow...

An orphan mutters his personal history in The Good Place. He is getting louder and louder because he doesn’t want his history to be locked in the smal...

Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the Yangtze River is reduced to rubble and its inhabit...

Two Uigur brothers and a friend are in love with parkour, a kind of extreme sport. Regardless of opposition from their worried mothers, the boys train...

The film explores the hidden face of poverty in one of the world's most affluent and capitalistic cities. Directed by CHEUNG King Wai (KJ: Music and L...

The little-known Hunan Suining County is an ordinary but full of magical places. As the theoretical point of the rocket wreckage launched by the Xicha...

This important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers who eke out a living, begging, foraging, stealing and sleeping...