China Movies

FRONTLINE examines the rise of Xi Jinping, his vision for China and the global implications. Correspondent Martin Smith traces the defining moments...

Shot by Methodist missionaries, this is an incredibly charming record of small-town life in an unidentified location in China. We see a bustling...

Into the Island is the first chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field...

For six years the film follows 3 young Chinese from different social levels, different regions and different mindsets into their adult lives.

The Chinese government is sponsoring a national campaign on "equal" education. UNDER THE SAME SKY documents school children in the city as well as...

A documentary about young people from rural China who get payed to improve World of Warcraft characters for kids in the West.

Puccini s last and unfinished opera tells the tale of Turandot, the cruel daughter of the Chinese emperor, who demands that her suitors correctly...

Guangzhou, a.k.a. Canton, is southern China’s centuries-old trading port. Today the booming metropolis of 14 million is a mecca of mass...

Migrant workers, factory bosses and nightclub dancers try to carve out a slice of the pie in the city the dollar store built. But China is changing....

This documentary reviews and summarises the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past three decades in China. We interviewed thirty...

A story about coming to the end of your journey as an expat in China, told through the lens of the films that inspired us.

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution. A group of students at Qinghua University who...

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We...

A short documentary that captures the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, The Yellow Bank takes you on a contemplative boat ride across...

This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...

An biography of Zhou Enlai through the Cultural Revolution.

My childhood memories carry two important symbols, a large magnet that I pulled around behind me and a dead friend.