Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...

Zou Xueping continues to interview old people in her village, this time with the help of local child...

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the...

A veteran, Mr. Long’s life was full of legend. Yet, he lived his life in silence and never told othe...

A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.

The film is director Gao Zipeng’s first fiction film which takes three years to complete. It premier...

A short documentary that captures the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, The Yellow Ba...

In northeastern China the Songhua River flows west from the border of Russia to the city of Harbin, ...

"If the old doesn't go, the new never comes" recites a teenager hanging out near a demolition site i...

In China, most families have difficulties facing their lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LG...

Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical f...

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music a...

A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and Sout...

This film documents the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival in 2014, from the preparations before...

Six life stories of German, Austrian and Ashkenazi Jews which intersect in exile in Shanghai. Out of...

In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed...