The Silent Period

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the...

"China Gate" tells the story of young Chinese fight to change their fate through studying. Right before dawn, students in Huining have already...

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first travelogue. Her observant eye is interested...

Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and...

A man who was hiding for 7 years to avoid creditors has embarked on his journey home because of the death of his mother. On the way back home, the...

Part mournful meditation through documentary footage, part experimental narrative. This film looks at the life of the Chinese who have been displaced...

The pool table faces shattered statues. Nobody. Broad fishnets drape crumbling walls. Nobody. Bikes chained to pillars. Nobody. Three caryatids...

An 8-year-old boy searching for fireworks on a Chinese New Year's Eve, after the firework ban is introduced in this southern Chinese town.

Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real. ——The Story of the Stone

A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which the maverick indie filmmaker...

By day Chen Shi works in a textiles factory and at night dons a red dress and takes to the dance hall. We Outlaws is the story of just one of...