Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the exploited class. Borrowing this concept, the umbrella is taken as the clue to rediscover changes in various social classes after the economic reform, and to analyze the social problems in China. Workers making umbrellas, merchants selling umbrellas, students looking for jobs in the rain. Umbrella is used as a metaphor that can be seen everywhere. As the raindrop, what we see is sometimes clear, sometimes untraceable.

Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a countr...

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

Part mournful meditation through documentary footage, part experimental narrative. This film looks a...

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

Interviews with Dalai Lama and some Chinese intellectuals about Tibet/China relations and related is...

For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the bi...

In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today,...

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

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

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

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

This important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers who eke out a...

The little-known Hunan Suining County is an ordinary but full of magical places. As the theoretical ...

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

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao w...

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

Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 ...

A Yangtze Landscape utilizes a non-narrative style, setting off from the Yangtze's marine port Shang...