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- DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.
- A portrait of poverty, ambition and hope set in a world of waste.
- A documentary on rural teenagers in southwestern China who are recruited as their country's next Olympic hopefuls, with a focus on the coach Qi Moxiang.
- The "Great Sichuan Earthquake" took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. 10 days after: Scenes not seen on official/TV, "survival" is the keyword. Ordinary people are salvaging destroyed pig farms in the mountains, recuperating cents-worth scrapped metals, or pillaging victims' homes. Behind the highly-mediatized official visits, inconsolable grief of families searching for loved ones. Throughout, a vagabond in tattered clothes wanders among the ruins, observing tragic scenes. A monk and a Taoist visionary suggest: "the earthquake is the consequence of Earth-Gods no longer worshipped." 210 days after: Harsh winter, villagers preparing for Lunar New Year, the vagabond and family are detailing grievances about the ill-handling of rebuilding schemes and relief funds. Gearing up for a high official's visit, comes a thorough clean-up of the villages and tent-resettlement for refugees. Promise made for all to live in houses in winter seems tough to keep. Fake parts in the community transformer brought electricity blackout for New Year's Eve reunion dinners. New Year Day starts as never-ending parade of tourists buying DVDs of the most horrific scenes, souvenir albums of corpses being pulled out of the ruins, and photos taken in front of Beichuan, the town most severely hit, where over 70,000 people perished in seconds.
- Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the exploited class. Borrowing this concept, the umbrella is taken as the clue to rediscover changes in various social classes after the economic reform, and to analyze the social problems in China. Workers making umbrellas, merchants selling umbrellas, students looking for jobs in the rain. Umbrella is used as a metaphor that can be seen everywhere. As the raindrop, what we see is sometimes clear, sometimes untraceable.
- China's Forgotten Daughters tells an intimate story of one woman's journey that questions traditional notions of family and identity, revealing the wounds that tear at the heart of Chinese society in the aftermath of the one-child policy.
- "Mirror, Mirror On The Wall" is a film about the lofty ambition and lonely inner life of a cosmetic surgeon and self-proclaimed performance artist from China, as well as the women who shape him; the mother whose approval he can never seem to win, his American PA with unhealed wounds of her own, and his remarkably grounded 17-year-old daughter. And then there are the fans. Legions of young women live-streaming every act of their surgeries. This film operates on many levels to bring the depths of selfie culture and the death of privacy into sharp focus.
- This is a story about male Dan (male performer playing female lead) in Cantonese Opera; a documentary seven years in the making about a marginalized art form. In Hong Kong, two young men: TAM Wing-lun, and WONG Hau-wai, both have chosen Cantonese Opera as their profession. They want to be the male Dan which is rare in the industry. Without the support of family, the industry or the society, the only thing to keep the two men going is their passion. Ever since they were young, the two have been each others confidant and supporter, learning how to interpret the role of women, and motivating each other on and off stage. Even when the parts they played on stage have changed, the friendship between the two, on and off stage, remains constant and strong. The art is not a popular field in Hong Kong. It is impractical and generally not supported. When the road ahead is unclear, how does one continue? How does one reach his final destination?
- A young Chinese folk singer left his hometown to the big city, only to return to his musical traditions. On this journey, his humor, anger and powerful folk songs all comes from the rural life of past. That's the real taste of soil and dust.
- The First Song documents the children who attend a kindergarten located on the inland mountain of Shandong Peninsula. The children are idealistic and romantic by nature, and it is with these criteria that they view the world around them. At such a tender age, they're unable to understand the complexities of life, or the rights and wrongs in the adult world. What they do understand is their own needs and desires.
- Growing up in Shihezi, a Chinese city in Xinjiang Province, a group of Uighur elementary students at the school soccer team was notorious for being "Example Students" -- Do no homework, sleep in class, and always cause troubles. They brought their school glory with continued victories, and also headaches to teachers. Due to various individual reasons, they struggled in the classroom. The training of soccer, instead, became an invaluable education they needed for growing up. Leading towards a teenage life, the team started their last soccer season. For a while, ongoing success brought them new opportunities, which in turn made them ambitious. After half a year, they advanced to represent their city to attend a provincial tournament. For the majority of the team, it was their first time leaving home and a step into the real world. However, subsequent defeats crushed their soccer dream and gave them a bitter taste of failure. Later on, skirmishes among the team, dreads of strong opponents, and doubts of their future complicated the journey of their last tournament and gave them a lesson of their ending childhood. Shot in a Cinéma- Vérité style, this film focused on three Uighur soccer boys-- the goalkeeper Ablikim, an orphan shadowed by his parents' absence, lingered alongside despair; the back Rozi, son of an illiterate father, was about to drop out school and shepherd; the forward Ilham, an ardently confident soccer talent, struggled to establish friendships. From the school qualifying, the city tournament, to the provincial tournament, this film recorded their 12-year-old through three soccer games and captured their growing-up moments of rediscovering themselves, enduring failure, and then restoring hope.
- Seen as the Chinese Don Quixote, Gao arms himself with the law and has been challenging the government for the last ten years. In 2004, when Gao's home was demolished by force, he began to study law in order to press charges against the government, but the court simply dropped the charges. Driven by anger, Gao went around, supporting those whose homes were torn down by the authorities. In 2011, Gao arrived in Zhongshan Road. The redevelopment in the area had been going on for years, but a small number of the local residents still refused to move. While fighting for their rights, some Zhongshan Road residents such as Zhi and Mei became Gao's staunch followers. However, despite the legal advice Gao offered, Zhi and the others lost their cases against the authorities, and their houses were demolished as a result. Gao has been fighting for civil rights for years, but since it has not yielded any result, the group gradually breaks up. At the moment, Gao's personal motive for protecting the others' rights is revealed...
- The film tells the stories of young Chinese fighting for a better life like a journey of passing gates, and yet this one may not be open for all.
- Cuizhen is a barber. As a latecomer, she was not embraced well by locals. After a serious illness over a decade ago, however, she became a psyche possessed by Mao Zedong. Over the years, countrymen have worshipped so many people with magic power. While a lot of them claimed to represent Chairman Mao, revolutionaries or founding fathers, and wanted to build a heaven in the other world, Cuizhen didn't agree. She just wanted to gather all those psyches and villagers, and celebrate Mao's birthday once a year. The birthday preparation, however, didn't go well, and it's turned into a psyche battlefield for power and status.
- WHISPER OF MINQIN tells a story of how a group of eco-refugees fight to take fate into their own hands and preserve their ancestral homeland against the vast and relentless desert in Minqin County of Gansu Province, China. Will the desert claim Minqin or will the people reclaim their land?
- Two Uighur brothers and a friend are in love with Parkour, a kind of extreme sport. Regardless of opposition from their worried mothers, the boys train themselves to be the best in an upcoming Parkour competition Beijing while managing to iron out additional difficulties. When they lost the game eventually, they learned much more about their true selves.
- J and Jacky are two inseparable best friends whose families share a subdivided flat. J is often left under the care of Jacky's family when his mother returns to the Mainland to renew her residency permit. Soon, we see from J and Jacky's classmates that such a living arrangement is not a unique situation.