A Clear Sky

Xilin Gol grassland in Inner-Mongolia is one of few natural grasslands with high-quality pasture in China. When a rich coalfield is discovered under the ground of this beautifully natural scene, the nomadic herdsmen reluctantly migrate into the cities and wave farewell to their grassland. The water levels lower, plants die, and only sandstorms remain on the prairie.

Xi Hai City

"Xi Hai City" of male leading role is a looming demolition in the villages of the youth of the world confusion about the future, he wandered around every corner, in the village from the lock the door when you leave, to go to the toilet, to meet others, to buy breakfast, until get to the sea met a woman finally clashed with her and tried to a relationship, finally dull left, alone quietly walked into the sea.

Born Wasted

The frustrated painter decided to burn his failed paintings. Unexpectedly, when the paintings burned down, they turned into paper cranes and returned to his memory. As memories shuttled, the painter wanted to recover the waste paper again, but it was too late.

Shattered

A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which the maverick indie filmmaker continues to refine his techniques and concerns shown in his previous “Wheat Harvest” and “Fortune Teller.”

Yuguo and His Mother

Yuguo, from Mongolia, lost his father when he was very young. His mother Liuxia was not able to raise him as a heavy drinker. With social support, she sent Yuguo to Wuxi for free education. Liuxia is depressed all day long, and she finds sustenance of missing Yuguo in reindeer and wine. One winter holiday after many years, Yuguo returns to his hometown, the Evenki settlement deep in the Greater Khingan mountains. At that time, he is no longer the boy who just left home, but a thirteen-year-old teenager. Facing alcoholic mother, poetic uncle, pure people from the tribe, familiar yet strange forest, Yuguo, who grew up in the city, doesn’t know what to do. In the snow-laden mountains of Aoluguya, northeast of Inner Mongolia, the film chronicles their brief time together. Yuguo and His Mother is the second documentary of Gu Tao’s Evenki trilogy.

Shuang Jing

The story happened near the Shuangjing subway station in Beijing. The female stall owner was aggrieved by the selective enforcement of urban management and expressed that she would fight to the end for fairness. When the urban management team forced her to close, she burst into tears and complained of social injustice. Even in the urban management team, she had to ask for fairness. But in the face of institutional chaos, she finally chose to compromise and continue the cat and mouse game. The old man is a Christian, is he helpless in obedience to fate? How many people's melody played by the Huqin sounded in the smog of Beijing?

A Man in Trouble

Wang Yang has an interview today. However, a series of abrupt and absurd interludes, such as cockroachs that suddenly appear, the phone that he can't get rid of, ceaseless music, and mysterious phone calls, keep popping up to prevent him from leaving the house. The veracity of this story is immediately doubted after he tells his brother about all of this, but he believes that everything that happens to him is real...

The Trace of Hometown

In the first scene of the film, the characters in the story enter a child's dream, trying to return to their childhood by looking for strange and familiar memory images in the dream. The film starts with the director's private memories. The still images come from the images and old films taken by the director back in the village where he lived in his childhood. Through the interpenetration of memories in dreams and the present, it explores how "people" deal with trauma at the psychological level.

生活在遠方

The Sea Within

Fishermen couple Ah Shing and Mei-wah, having lived from boat to shore, stayed together for most of their lives. After their son grew up, they have different visions towards the rest of their days. Ah Shing insists on fishing amid the decline of the local fishing industry. Mei-wah works as a factory worker and wishes for a more stable life. Even when there are subtle and profound changes in their relationships due to the different views, their affections for each other never stopped and they still support each other. This story is based on the real-life experience of the director's parents, and they play their own character in the film.

Four Articles about Family Relations

Director Xu Linyu presents four short films: Mother, Father, Daughter and Son, in which the characters are bound together by the same family, but one of the greatest feelings between the relationships is the sense of alienation. During the filming process, Xu Linyu tries to sort out everyone's dilemma and re-understand the family relationship.

The Dog Ate a Boy

Tan Dongdong, aged 16, rode a motorcycle for a living. On his way to get back his ex-girlfriend Lin Qing, Tan Dongdong accidentally got acquainted with hair salon girl Wu Xiaoxia. After learning that Lin Qing had left with another man, Tan Dongdong gradually developed feelings for Wu Xiaoxia. At Tan Dongdong’s request, Wu Xiaoxia agreed to give up her job as a prostitute in the hair salon. However, when Tan Dongdong found out that Wu Xiaoxia had violated the agreement, he chose to take revenge…

Broken Line

Building Archaeology

The documentary Building Archeology (jiànzhú kǎo) (2011) considers the more recent past. It’s made up of three vignettes about different buildings in Beijing: a museum, an abandoned hospital, and a detention center. The latter two vignettes are especially interesting. In the second, a woman wanders around the ruins of a hospital built in a week to deal with the 2003 SARS outbreak. The third concerns a former prisoner, tracing out a map of the detention center where he was held in 2011.

Smoke gets in your eyes

A film about death and memory. A long farewell. A killer takes the life of a poor writer in the morning. Then they go through a journey consisting of a boy, a woman, watches, oranges, roses and old bicycles. At the end of that night, he realizes that the person who was once loved will never leave ......

The District Councillor

The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong – the economy was in recession, the government constantly implemented futile policies, the SARS outbreak, and, on July 1st, 500,000 people went on strike opposing the adoption of Article 23 of the Basic Law. It was against this political atmosphere that YIN Zhao-Jian gave up his social worker job, a 10 year long and steady career, and joined the political circle and participated in the district councilor election, which he had no idea about.

The River in the Hometown

Yang Xin dropped out of school and returned to his hometown, but felt uncomfortable with the popular culture represented by live broadcast/ Douyin culture gradually becoming the mainstream of society. I wanted to return to my familiar hometown to find a sense of identity, but found that my hometown is no longer the same as in the past. The social atmosphere of my hometown and my own memories are all different. The only similarity that can be found is the river in the hometown, but the river that has been flowing has maintained its original consistency.

Orphan

Early in the morning, the priest read in the church at the disabled orphanage. At dawn, the villagers entered the funeral ceremony during the prayer ceremony. In disabled orphanages, there are babies in the youngest children. Two children attending school together did not attend the class normally. More children with reduced mobility can only be dazed and crawl on the ground. But they are also God's people and attend worship services in the church. The autumn mist was hazy, and a new cathedral was being built in the village. Insects, kittens, puppies, orphans, villagers who worship, all life is safe. At night, the tired priest went to sleep after finishing writing. In his dream, he reached a graveyard and remained silent with his dying mother. Seasons are changing, rainy days, winter snow, orphans wear thick winter clothes, making movement more difficult. The cathedral was built, and people celebrated the biggest Christmas day of the year.

Disappearance

Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.

On My Planet

“On my planet” is a short love story. The concept is that everyone owns a little planet. The main character of my story is little boy called blue who owns a big blue planet but lives a very lonely and boring life. Until one day he found out an orange planet where a little girl lives on it , however it would only come every 72 years. This is the story about how he use every methods to attracts the girl’s attention and how he mange to pursuit his love.

Incantation

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

The Bay

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

V/H/S

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

Bodycam

A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.

V/H/S/94

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

Phoenix Forgotten

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

V/H/S/99

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

Afflicted

Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.

Re-Kill

Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.

Windy City Heat

A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he's in is a fake.

Stan Lee

Celebrate the legacy of Stan Lee as the co-creator of such legendary characters as Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men, The Avengers, and hundreds more.

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

Creep

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

Maria by Callas

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.

Project Almanac

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

The Conspiracy

A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.

The Den

A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

Resurrected

In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.