Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Director : LI Jie
CONTENT
There was a strange town in Hunan province, China. In the 80s of last century, most of the villages in China didn't even know what a car was, there was a motorcade in the town.Once ago,it was a "fashion" town, the freshest movie showed in the cinema at the first time .The town is in the deep mountain, the twists and turns of mountains.Nevertheless, the youngster were wearing fashionable. The town is in a poor county, but the residents was respected when they went to Guangdong province, and they were considered "the wealthy", the town is called "Mei tian". However, in the early 90s, it seems that the most of residents were disappeared at one night. No one knows where they gone. The lost hometown shows a story that the people in the town which experienced industrial transformation in Chinese south area, and there are nearly 100,000 people from all over the country came to the small coal mine town , and worked in the industry which was never earned. Eventually,they scattered all over the world.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 85 min
Director : Mickey Luan
Producer : Tommaso Muzzi
CONTENT
My father was born in Daegu during Korean War, my grandfather was forced to flee to Incheon from Shandong during Chinese Civil War. Because of the poverty for Chinese refugee family in South Korea, my father was sent away to another family as an adopted child by grandpa at the age of ten.Father grew up in a broken family.After that, he finished his study by being a migrant worker in Japan, then he came to Taiwan to establish his own family.I grew up in the family built by him. Grandpa was a total absence of the childhood memories of my father.But father's attendance of my childhood caused lots of fears and stress, the physically and emotionally violence of he had caused great pain for me and my mother.Until the relationship between father and I was completely broken, I've begun to think about the definition of my father for me.I began to search for the journey of my family, and how did my family suffer from the historical events.Naturally, I was doing that with my camera and record what I know and what I feel during the researching as writing a letter to my father.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 100 min
Director : CHEN Weijun
Photographer : CHENG Chunlin
CONTENT
This documentary mainly tells a serial of stories caused by public administrative conflicts between the urban management officers and a fruit peddler, Tiancheng Wang, who takes advantage of public streets while doing business.After a long period of resistance and struggle, officers finally achieve Wang's understanding and gratitude. However, the cost of administration is huge, and there are hundreds of peddlers like Wang needed to be guided and rearranged.Moreover, how to settle the issue about street peddlers once for all, and how to unify the urban dreams of officers and peddlers at some extent? These are only the tips of icebergs of those problems coming to the Urban Management Department continuously.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Producer : ZHAO Chuanda
CONTENT
This documentary records the development of palliative care in China. By interviewing doctors, patients and their families and by communicating with experts, it shows what choices a patient would make when facing incurable disease: live with medical apparatus or die a natural death with dignity
Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Director : FAN Peilei
Producer : JI Hang
CONTENT
The quiet and secluded mountain forest at the eastern part of Zhejiang Province has allowed local residents to sustain the primitive and tranquil agricultural life of the Han nationality for nearly a century. Locals with the company of bamboo forests and streams, get up at the sight of stars and take rest at the sunset. The 13-year-old girl, Hu Ziyan, and 25-year-old boy, Zhang Yuliang, dwell at the foot of the mountain living an enchanted life there. The Hu family on the mountain, as an owner of abundant bamboo forests and farmlands, relies on agricultural produce to sustain a self-sufficient and laid-back life. In order to go to school, the young girl has to take a bus or a four-hour walk through the beautiful scenery and perils of the Tiantai Mountain every week. She starts to gradually perceive the frustration of her father's indifference upon departure in the past and contentment at present.The Zhang family at the foot of the mountain makes a living by farming and harvesting based on the ancient solar terms of four seasons. They lead a hermit's life aspired to by numerous Chinese celebrities of culture. Nonetheless, only Zhang Yuliang knows that behind the seemingly wonderful and idyllic life, there are hardships of his parents and the poverty of a mountainous life. Merely a frost hardly noticed by urban residents can destroy their hard work of an entire winter. The young Boy Liang Liang and the young girl Zi Yan explore their way out from the mountain forest by hiking along roads that vary over the four seasons. However, their fathers return home after departure and carry on their farming lives of elder generations on the mountain. As they dwell on and at the foot of the same mountain respectively, with everything coming and going over the seasons, are their lives doomed?
Format : Feature Length
Length : 50 min
Director : Chu Jingping
Director : LIU Wen
CONTENT
Jinqi is a 28-year-old graphic designer who actually wants to be a photographer. She loves taking pictures of people especially the observation of expressions in every face she shoots. It seems that everyone is born with a normal face with expressions except her.
When she was 1 year old, Jinqi suffered a serious bacterial infection then lost her complete face and part of her body. Her mother passed away when she was only 4, later her father had a new family, so she lived with her grandparents ever since. Jinqi never feared the strange looks from others in her life, however she faces them with strong calmness.
Finally, this strong and positive girl came to Shanghai with her boyfriend hoping to change her face with the help of experts then start a new life. Maybe one day, the new Jinqi with beautiful face will be a real photographer.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Director : Woody Wu Qi
CONTENT
This film features in the 2018 Mount Everest Climbing mountaineer Xia Boyu who has injuries in both legs. It also has clips from the 1975 documentary about Chinese Mountaineering Team, which re-shows the Xia' s experience of 244 meters away from the summit of Mount Everest. However on the way back, he suffered the injuries in his legs out of the coldness. For the past 43 years, he never forgot his dream and prepared both physically and technically for climbing once again. We want to show his strong will and perseverance.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 80min
Director : ZHAO Qi
Producer : CHENG Zhu
CONTENT
The Invisible Shores starts from the sweeping voyage of Guo Chuan, the first Chinese man to take on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation. It is a 130 days of pounding against the wind the waves on a 40-feet boat in the 21,000 miles seaway, and he made it. When fame comes knocking and everyone thinks that Guo Chuan, 49 already, should settle down to enjoy the glory and spend family time with his newborn baby, Guo Lunbu, named after Columbus, the father was considering to set forth another voyage to cross the arctic sea, solo. Three years later in 2016, after conquering the arctic route as another human record, Guo prepared to cross the pacific between San Francisco and Shanghai, a journey that seems less adventurous. On Oct 25,2016, he lost trace 800 knots to the south of Hawaii and has not been found since.
In the past 5 years, The Invisible Shore followed Guo's career development and family life, trying to understand the weight of a man's vision. Guo is an alien to his time, not to barter anything for the dreams to chase. He may be a tragedy to his family, but a legend to call on everyone of us, that how much we are ready to pay for what we are.
Format : Short film (single episode)
Length : 40 min
Director : Line ZUO
Photographer : Junjie LEE
CONTENT
Three years later in 2016, after conquering the arctic route as another human record, Guo prepared to cross the pacific between San Francisco and Shanghai, a journey that seems less adventurous. On Oct 25,2016, he lost trace 800 knots to the south of Hawaii and has not been found since.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 95 min
Director : XU Weichao
CONTENT
A group of Uyghur children fall behind in their elementary school. They eventually become the school's "star" pupils though they don't do homework ,sleep during class, and are disruptive. The children still like going to school despite their disinterest in classes—instead they play football as it offers them the scarce joy and freedom, and alleviates academic frustration.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Director : CUI Ying
CONTENT
Golog Zhujia is known as the Snow Leopard Lama because he devoted himself to the snow leopard protection. Under his arrangement, the Tibetan photography enthusiasts from a million miles around travel over mountains and rivers to hold their own documentary film festival every year. Inhabitants in snow-covered plateau keep recording their living condition and the magnificent scenery with images, to show their unique thought of life and nature.The documentary film festival is around the corner, but the funds are not yet in place. Will the documentary film festival continue this year? Golog Zhujia began a trip to visit photography friends and raise the funds.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 90 min
Executive Producer: LUO Tong
Photographer: Arthur Jones
CONTENT
The story of the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic disaster was written out of history. In The Six: Titanic's Chinese Survivors, we learn how these remarkable men beat the odds to make it off the ship alive, only to experience expulsion from the US within 24 hours of their arrival. We track down their descendants for the first time and trace their extraordinary journey from Southern China to find out how they became silent witnesses to one of the twentieth century's most infamous and intriguing events.
Format : Feature Length
Length : 60 min
Director : Carlo Christian Spano
Photographer : Jackson ZHAO
CONTENT
"This is a documentary film that belongs to the world technology industry, not a commercial film. We hope to tell the world in our own way from the technology professionals' perspective: What is real Al? Is Al related to ordinary people? Should we worry about it?Meanwhile we appeal the world technology industry to develop safe Al for a better future world.
Above all, we encourage people to discover their own potentials and control their own destinies."
Format : Short film ( One-off )
Length : 20 min
Director : YANG Lizhu
CONTENT
In the 21st century, everyone says that marriage should be built on the basis of equal and free development of independent individuals.The viewpoints of mate selection, fertility, family, sexuality, and marriage and divorce have all clearly advanced. My grandmother's 80-year-old divorce triggered my thinking and made me more curious about my grandmother's story. Through interview, I also learned about my grandfather for the first time. Divorce was a disgraceful thing in their time, but now what he wants most is to be free in mind.
Format : Short series
Length : 25 min* 88
Director : ZHOU Xiaomeng
CONTENT
"We are all made of stars" is an online documentary variety show about exploring stars. The program gathered a number of intellectuals in their respective fields to form the "Star Alliance".With the other star-date, they were going to complete a romantic outdoor star-chasing trip. Together, they crossed the extreme beauty of the country: the Night Park, villages under the stars, the boundless desert, and the starry guest house not far from the city life. They go along all the way with the Milky Way and stars to regain the joy and touching moments in the dark world. Each episode discusses a topic, interpreting popular science with curiosity, and using astronomical knowledge as a source to output interesting and useful knowledge. The selection of topics includes: What subtle influence does it have on this generation of children since they couldn't enjoy a clear starry sky? What is the Marvel Universe fans' fantasy and reality? Only discovering that Van Gogh was also a great physicist after understanding "The Starry Night"?and many more. The crossover of astronomy, philosophy, art and other fields bring us a relaxing journey, also a place to broaden the horizon.
Format : Series (feature length )
Length : 30 min * 10episodes (Domestic version )
52 min * 3episodes (International version )
General Director : WANG Yang
General Consultant & Chief Writer : WU Shu
CONTENT
"Totem China" is the first large-scale documentary that gathers domestic and foreign multidisciplinary experts, scholars, and cultural celebrities to explore Chinese civilization and national spirit from the perspective of Totem culture. The film uses the totem as a key to explore the connections between ancient and modern times, individuals and nations, human beings and all things through the various aspects of people's lives, and seeks out the cultural genes and cultural bloodline of Chinese people today.
Format : Short series
Length : Four seasons,ten episodes for each season, ten minutes for each episode.
Director &Producer : Patrick Carr
CONTENT
In this wonderful online series, Ash Dykes will take us to embark on his most ambitious adventure to date. Starting from the snow-covered mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and passing through the hinterland of China to reach China's most spectacular city, Shanghai, it will be a shocking journey. Ash's survival skills, his experience of breaking world records, and his curiosity about new cultures and adventures will create another world record through this unforgettable adventure.
Format : Short series
Length : 3 min *5 episodes
Director : Inma Diaz Escribano
Producer : Ivy FAN
CONTENT
It is composed of 5 short films that tell the story of those ordinary people who built the foundation of a convenient life. In a metropolis where consumerism invades every corner, the protagonists are the other side of the coin,including an old barber, a delivery guy, a night cleaner, a taxi driver and a cashier at a 24-hour convenience store.
Format : Short series
Length : 10-15 min/episode (total 100 episodes )
Director & Producer: Li Haipei
CONTENT
Yu Shu, a documentary director who had travelled and made the documentary "Probing Happiness on the Border of China", took her 72-year-old mother and 3-year-old son, traveled to 20 countries around the world, and filmed and produced an independent video series "The World Belongs to You". Visiting lvy League and exploring the magical nature of Yellowstone across America;traveling across Europe to experience the harmony of the beautiful countryside and witness the refugees, terrorist attacks and unemployment crisis that pervade the city; voyaging to the Caribbean on a cruise ship, meeting friends from all over the world;feeling the development of North Africa in Morocco.... The world is so diverse and despite its turmoil, it is full of love and kindness. The family from China gathered what they saw and felt along as they traveled. In the face of the community of human destiny, the world needs compassion and peace. The carefree "last generation" and innocent "next generation" filter out truth, kindness and beauty from the ruins of history and put them in the hope of the future.
Format : VR project
Length : 10 min *3
Art Director : FENG Wen
Producer : LI Xiang
CONTENT
Using VR immersive technology, "Walk China" offers a unique, interactive experience of three of the most splendid and brilliant eras in Chinese history. Digital models created by means of laser scanning and photogrammetry and driven by game engines, combined with artistic storytelling, allow users to embrace the "Real Dunhuang", "Fantasy Tang Poetry", and "Tangible Chime Bells".
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