Type : Feature film
Feature length : 60 min
Director : Li Yandong
Producer : Zhang Xinwei
CONTENT
Zhu Ronglin and his wife in Yuhang District,Hangzhou, recruited a group of elderly people online in 2017 for a "group pension" in their home. After three years by domestic and foreign media reports also drew a series of difficult problems, the old people and high ladder electricity price, inner loneliness, not fixed partners are making all sorts of struggle, and the launch of the zealous Jiang Yichun to promote to the world after "native endowment" advanced mode, the originator Rong-lin zhu is faced with crisis of couldn't continue ......
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90 min
Director : Tenji Kakukara
Producer : KANG Shiwei
CONTENT
In the new century, a craze for shopping online among Chinese residents has fuelled the development of the logistics industry by leaps and bounds. Thirty million truck drivers carry nearly 80% of China's total freight volume. They overwork day and night and struggle to make a living on a verge of life and death. They drive trucks to enable the operation of economic lifeline of the country. Since the COVID-19 spread in the early 2020, truck drivers as backbones of China's economy in the new era, have been confronted with severe tests and challenges.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 100 min
Director : Kang Yuqi
Producer : Cao xi
CONTENT
Inspirare takes us into the life and underwater world of Jessea Lu, the first Chinese female freediving champion. In intimate, cinéma vérite-style, we travel with Jessea on her unwavering journey to become a world champion. An accomplished pharmaceutical advisor by day, and top freediver during her free time, Jessea unflinchingly commits herself to everything she does. Two years ago, Jessea's life was nearly cut short when she blacked out 20 meters underwater during her last world-record attempt: a dive of 93 meters. She was lifeless for seven minutes. After coming face-to-face with death, instead of quitting, Jessea decides to continue her training--preparing and sharpening her skills with the rigor of the world's most preeminent competitors. In 2020, we follow Jessea's return to the world freediving stage as she emerges with a bigger more dangerous goal: breaking the current world record in the same contest she nearly died just two short years ago. Will Jessea reemerge from the abyssal depths with the gold medal this time around?
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 1*90 min & 3*52 min
Director : Patrick Carr
CONTENT
Recent discoveries and the new excavations are revealing a nation that was shaped by some extraordinary women who rebelled against China's patriarchy and shook up the world. Through access to exciting discoveries at three archaeological digs, this series will bring their stories to life, revealing how these rebel women changed history:
l General Fu Hao - Warrior of the Shang over 3,000 years ago - a story revealed by the discovery of China's oldest city and some of its first recorded writing.
l Lady Xia - She was the force behind the throne of the First Emperor 2,200 years ago - buried with the Terracotta Army.
l Empress Wu Zetian - China's First and only empress. Feared and admired nearly 1,500 years ago, her mountain-top tomb still dominates the land and a lost city reveals the truth of her bloody and brilliant rule.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90 min
Director : Huang Guanghan
Producer : Huang Minting
CONTENT
This is a story of a figure skater's family, also a story of a “tiger mom” raising her child.
Nini, 13 years old girl who has a life track decided before her birth--becoming a professional figure skater. Many says her mom picked the path for the child grafted her own dream into Nini's head. Was it true? Hard to tell.
Yet she is on the road to the China's national team, her mother is "gambling"all the resources of their family, making her daughter an idol on ice.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90 min
Director : Xie Xiuyuan
CONTENT
In Mr. Zu's past 86 years, he has done nothing else but grazing cattle by the river every day. Last spring, he started to feel the age and couldn't work as hard anymore. He asked his daughter, Chunqin, who works as migrant worker in a big city, to come back and graze with him. Chunqin was not keen on this tough yet low-paid job. She wants Zu to sell all his cattle. Zu compromised at the end and agreed to sell most of them,except for one very old cow.
It snowed heavily that winter. Chunqin broke her leg and got hospitalised. Zu's cattle were soon starved because no one was there to help delivering crops to feed them.One day, they broke free and ran away...
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 78 min/episode
Director : Guo Dongsheng
Producer : Rao Youming
CONTENT
Rao Zhiwei, born in the 1990s, gavel up 3 years’ of living in the city, returned to his hometown of Shaoguan to start a venture in rice cultivation. Although born in the village, Rao had no knowledge of farming and was plunged into difficulties. Deng Ruiting, graduated from the university and returned to the village, teached Rao of farming and allowed Rao to farm a hundred acres of land. The film tells the story of two young men returning to hometown for career and reflects the challenges and hopes in China's agriculture reform.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 85 min
Director : Pu Yunhong
Producer : Yang Yang
CONTENT
Talented young Go player Guanglin Xu has cut a brilliant figure in China's Go community. Born in a humble household, the high tuition of learning Go blocks his forward direction. Guanglin and his father, who are dependent on each other for their lives, start the journey of learning Go under the support of some donors. Hustling back and forth multiple cities, they are still not properly arranged. The father starts to doubt if donors are making use of Guanglin's talent for their own good; meanwhile, the father's attitude towards Guanglin's disability seems dubious. Guanlin is whirled around by the complicated involution. He has no choice but to listen to everything silently.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90 min
Director : Wu Yue
CONTENT
Thirty-two-year-old Sisi is a WBC Asia Title champion and the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy. This year, 2019, will be her most challenging yet. Not only does she have the opportunity to fight in a potentially career-changing International Boxing Federation match, she is also resuming full-time care of her son, who has been living with his grandparents.
Sisi was born and raised in a conservative family who believe--as many do in China--that motherhood is a woman's most important job. After her son was born. Sisi suffered severe postnatal depression. Boxing became her way out, a way to show the world she existed.
Sisi worked hard to get where she is. But how will she face these new challenges? How to maintain a gruelling training schedule and raise a young son? And what about having a second child?
Can Sisi win inside and outside of the ring?
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 75 min
Director : Keliang Li
Producer : Xin Fang
CONTENT
Keliang is a Chinese student pursuing an MFA degree in documentary filmmaking in New York, and was researching her thesis on death education in May 2019. She has interviewed Ms.Shatzi Weisberger, a death educator who had hosted her own funeral by calling it “FUN-eral”, encouraging people to truly appreciate death with positivity and openness. A week later, Keliang went back home and, ironically, had found out her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer since the day she left China. Her family contended the good lie so she didn't have to bear the emotional burden from the diagnosis. Watching the woman who taught her to appreciate life, gradually deteriorated in front of her she suddenly realized her mom presented a cruel fact for her thesis research -to acknowledge the meaning of death.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 88 min
Director : Bao Hui
Director : Song Yuejing
CONTENT
The youth inspirational documentary film "Once the kids in the fields" tells the story of 100 primary school students in southern cities who left their parents alone for the first time to experience the rice planting and challenge their independent living ability in the black land of Northeast China in the summer.The film records the process of overcoming difficulties, getting rid of dependence,being optimistic and helping each other. 30 days’ recording and 100 children's oral records have aroused deep thinking about the development of independence, creativity of Chinese children and how to get rid of learning pressure that have been a persistent social problem.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90 min
Director : Paupau
Director : Anthony Lamolinara
CONTENT
This is a story between an ordinary woman(Paupau)and the unusual creature (sharks.) Paupau spent eight years from a woman who knew nothing about the sea,become a documentary maker who chased sharks all over the world. She recorded more than 40 different species of sharks, made ten documentaries about sharks during 8 years, letting people understand the sharks. She used her own stories to tell us the truth of the sharks and human relations. But in the end, she found that what has really be completely changed is her own.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 50min
Director : Zhang Yang
Producer : Sun Runwei
CONTENT
Guoguo is a founder of a film and television company dedicated to serve hearing impaired persons. The company has been engaged in the low-end animation processing. During the COVID epidemic, the company's future has been uncertain due to the sharp reduction of upstream orders. However, Guoguo decides to tackle the trouble head-on and create the 3D sign language translation software, an original product for persons with hearing impairment that aims to remove obstacles between hearing impaired persons and others. Therefore, a normal hearing person, a hard of hearing person, and Guoguo's husband who has been jobless since the epidemic have formed a special team. Then a world of hearing impaired persons, and the story about equality and dreams and have unfolded.
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 90min
Director : Grant Xin
Producer : Vincent Zhang
CONTENT
This was a documentary film. Kiarostam, an Iranian film master, visited China four times during the last two years of his life to make preparations for Hangzhouzhilian, a feature film. In Hangzhou, he became a good friend of Wendy, a cleaner, and started to shoot a film based on her story. However, Wendy suddenly refused to share her story with Kiarostami and said:“ You have your story and I have mine ”.
After Kiarostami passed away, I went to Teheran and Hangzhou time and again to visit the people related to this film and collect the clues about Hang. Gradually,Wendy and I became good friends. She was willing to open her mind and tell me the story she didn't share with Kiarostami . Accordingly her life was changed . Despite the regret in Hang, Wendy ' s story still continued long after the death of Kiarostami… Therein, I seemed to see the true ending of HANGZHOUZHILIAN .
Type : Feature film
Feature length : 50 min
Director : Geng Dong
Producer : Shen Pengfei
CONTENT
The movie is 50 minutes long, with 14 stories (3 mins each )to reveal the live story of the Mandarin Duck.1,Home Sweet Home 2, Grouping 3, Fight for the Honor 4, Love Brids 5, Look for Food 6, Quest for Nest 7, The Guardian 8, Expecting 9, The Jump 10, Hide from the Natual Enemy 11,Life Cycle 12, Visitor's Helping Hand 13, Hard Life 14, New Chapter.
Type : Feature film
Feature length :80 min
Director : Zhang Yong
Photographer : Sun Lichen
CONTENT
Bobby, a Nigerian, came to China from faraway Africa and opened a cosmetics factory in Zhejiang, a coastal province of China. He had planned to export cosmetics made by the factory. However the COVID-19 broke out before the normal operation of the factory. In the face of foreign trade suspension between China and Africa, and the intensified conflicts in the factory, the African boss and Chinese employees with different skin colors suffer from throes brought about by the great changes of the times. Their relationship has experienced ups and downs under the influence of the pandemic.
Type : Short film series
Feature length : 50 min/episode ; four episodes in total
Director & Producer : Cui Ying
CONTENT
The year 2020 is destined to be an extraordinary year. It is a critical time when China faces both poverty alleviation and the fight against COVID-19. Shaking off poverty is a common theme all over the world. This documentary will not only focus on the change of numbers, but also reveals the living people and their stories behind the numbers. Aiming at presenting their real lives, we selected 30 poverty-stricken families in rural areas with huge geographical differences in China and continuously recorded their poverty alleviation process in one year, which reflected many social reality topics. This documentary is an exceptional record of China's rural life in the history of human poverty alleviation.
Type : Short film series
Feature length : 25 min *5 episodes
Director :Zhang Neixian
CONTENT
Chinese Naturalist is the first series of documentary films on the subject of natural science. With five episodes, the documentary tells the little-known stories of "fossil hunters" and other naturalists who are deeply fond of microorganisms. Despite other people despise them with cold attitude, they have not given up their favorite dreams; they explore the natural world with research spirit in their bones, and even disseminate science to the general public at their own expenses, for the sole purpose of enabling more people to study natural science. With passion and devotion, they have left footprints across the country and contributed to China's biodiversity cause.
Type : Short film series
Feature length : 30 min * 6 episodes ; 180 min in total
Director : Wen Bo
Plaaner ：Shuangman
CONTENT
The pursuit of the aesthetic in dietary food is reflected in numerous cultures. From the Song dynasty of China to the Bourbon dynasty of France. From the Chinese poetic Jiangnan country to the diverse European continent. Su Dongpo, Louis XIV, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lu Xun and Salvador Dali... These well-known characters have different identities. They are either literary writers with thousand books or famous musicians with lingering melody, or a king of millions people who is well noted in the history...but they all have a commonality, they are foodie.
In the modern metropolis, the various types of restaurants are dazzling. However, The Wild Cloud Geese described by Yuan Mei, the Elegant King Dish shown in Dali's paintings, the Mandarin Reed Soup adorned by Su Shi, and the Truffle Bag Chicken loved by Louis XIV are the same as those times which are gone forever. In this series, we will follow a famous Chinese foodie Cai Lan (tentative) and a youth US Vlogger Brennashpere(tentative) to visit cultural scholars and celebrity chefs around the world trying to reproduce the disappearing recipes and the aesthetic.
Type : Short film series
Feature length : 30 min * 4 episodes; 120 min in total
Director&Producer : Olivia Chen
Director :Wooyoung Choi
CONTENT
A wildlifesaving documentary series chronicling the changing fortunes of rare Species that are endangered in the wild including Snow-leopard, Chinese Pangolin, Sky-walker gibbon and Crested Ibis. Their cases serve as a frame of reference for human self-correction. "Remember Me" follows the process of the extinction of animal species that have been reduced in number by human across Eurasia, as well as the stories of zoologists, veterinarians and scientific and technical engineers who have fought alone to save and study them.
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