Directed by Hu Jie • Documentary • 2019 • 114 minutes

SPARK opens by the side of a road in Lanzhou City, northwestern China, as trucks rumble through a blasted hillside. An elderly man walks along the dusty road and pauses to point to a nearby spot—the former execution grounds. “They executed ma...

Directed by Lynn True & Nelson Walker III • Documentary • 2010 • 85 minutes

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer with a young family amidst a period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter, nicknamed Jiatomah ('pale chubby girl')...

Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2016 • 147 minutes

Director Wang Bing brings his careful eye to the mountainous border-region of northeastern Myanmar in Ta’ang, a powerful and revealing observational documentary that follows members of the Ta’ang minority as they flee to China to escape an...

Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2013 • 238 minutes

Within the gates of an isolated mental institution in in southwest China's Yunnan province, patients are confined to one single floor of a building. Once locked in, with little contact from the outside world, anything goes.

The facility's...

Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2012 • 153 minutes

One of his generation's most important documentary filmmakers, director Wang Bing is at the height of his powers in THREE SISTERS. The film introduces viewers to 10-year-old YingYing, 6-year-old Zhenzhen and 4-year-old Fenfen, who live alo...

Directed by Yi Cui • Documentary • 2017 • 15 minutes

On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.

Directed by Wen Hai • Documentary • 2017 • 174 minutes

China’s economic miracle has been built on cheap labor. And now, that labor is starting to fight back. Filmed in the southeastern part of the country, WE THE WORKERS is a vérité documentary that closely follows people organizing workers and ...

Directed by Jian Yi • Documentary • 2013 • 29 minutes

Meat is now central to billions of people's daily meals. The environmental, climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts are enormous and remain largely undocumented. 'What's For Dinner?' explores this terrain in fast-globalizing China ...

Directed by Li Hongqi • Drama • With Lei Bao, Bai Junjie • 2010 • 91 minutes

In this acclaimed absurdist comedy, bored teenagers and disillusioned adults rage at each other and the emptiness of life in frost-bitten northern China.

It's the last day of winter vacation in Inner Mongolia. Four aim...