Yu Guangyi's stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China as they employ traditional practices through one last, fateful expedition. For generations, the lumberjacks of Heilongjiang, China have made their living harvesting timber amidst a barren, wintry landscape. These woodcutters confront the elements, living in makeshift cabins surrounded by snow and ice. Hand tools, sleds and horses are the only technology they employ to drag massive trees down the perilous slopes of Black Bear Valley. At constant risk of injury and death, they attempt to appease the mountain gods with ancient rituals and sacrifices. Despite their heroic efforts to subsist, the deforestation caused by their decades-long customs may lead to their ultimate demise.
Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the ...
Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 ...
Springtime, Maoshan Town, Taizhou Shi, north Jiangsu Province in China. As the villagers of Maoshan ...
The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small c...
A silent film by Vietnamese director Truong Minh Quy in collaboration with Belgian director Nicolas ...
Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His c...
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a countr...
I just watch the news of war in a distant country on my mobile. My fingers go back day by day to the...
"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is ...
Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the...
China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...
"Mazu" or "The Sea God" has been the most important religious belief of ordinary people in my hometo...
Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical f...
For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the bi...
Documentary about a tribe of indigenous people in northern China.
Taiwan's democracy is the envy of Chinese people all over the world. At the same time, when this two...
17 riders with avarage age 81 decide to follow the dream of their youth and start their journey to r...
In this vivid portrait of China's musical heritage, Sichuan Opera performers strive to keep a centur...
A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and Sout...
In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed...