Du Haibin's award-winning documentary of the earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province in 2008 explores how victims, citizens and government respond to a national tragedy.

Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.

Conceived in 2017 and filmed over 5 years, BLUE ISLAND confronts the large-scale 2019 protests in Hong Kong. The past, the present and the future converge within a relentlessly documenting lens. Winner of the Hot Docs Grand Prize.

Six documentary shorts chronicle the changing state of China's independent, and underground, film scene.

The inner workings of a Christian community in rural China, whose ways of life and worship are threatened by the world around them.

The life of a countryside fortune teller provides a candid and deeply revelatory look at people living on the fringes of Chinese society.

In Karamay, filmmaker Xu Xin helps a community break the silence nearly two decades after a horrible fire killed nearly 300 schoolchildren.

Ordinary citizens take a stand against the planned destruction of their homes to make way forthe 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Acclaimed filmmaker Shu Haolun explores the culture and history of his Shanghai neighborhood upon its impending destruction.

Considered China's first queer novelist and filmmaker, Cui Zi'en puts forth nothing less than the most authoritative account of queer cultural history in China to date.

In this incendiary film, artist Hu Jie shares the testimony of the brave survivors of the political magazine Spark for the first time.

Follows ten young women on their quest to become instant superstars on China's biggest television show.

An extraordinary film re-examining the tragic events of Chinese modern history during the height of Maoist rule, featuring dozens of extensive interviews with both inmates and staff who served through three decades of the camp's existence.

At 12 o'clock at night, policemen came to our room and started a so-called 'room inspection.' As they began to knock at the door, I turned on a small camcorder. This film is the record of what followed.

One of his generation's most important documentary filmmakers, director Wang Bing introduces viewers to 10-year-old YingYing, 6-year-old Zhenzhen and 4-year-old Fenfen, who live alone in Xiyangtang, a tiny rural village in the high mountains of China's Yunnan province.

This stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China, as they work with traditional methods through one last, fateful expedition.

An unusual relationship develops between a Chinese couple struggling with heroin and a filmmaker chronicling their addiction, in this provocative documenrtary on drug abuse, filmmaking and friendship.

Meat consumption in China is skyrocketing; what does it mean for sustainability, public health, food security, climate change, and animal welfare?

In her debut film, director Qiong Wang builds a riveting portrait of her family reckoning with the lasting impact of China's one-child policy.

Wang Jiuliang travels to more than 500 landfills, documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption.

An observational essay about public spectacles in contemporary China.

Footage from a dozen amateur videographers becomes a symphony of urban social dysfunction in China.

When job prospects elude them, two twenty-something art school graduates decide to film each other's lives instead.

The story of one woman's brutal ordeal as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese Army during World War II.

LATE SUMMER captures a centuries-old Beijing theatre in its incarnation as a modern-day transient space.

A gripping cinema verite documentary that shows how China's one-child policy plays out in the daily lives of women in one Chinese village.

A rare glimpse into the nomadic lives of master puppeteers, against the backdrop of a country in constant transition.

Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China's urban sprawl.

The hidden lives of homeless migrants who survive in the shadows of one of Shanghai's most affluent and historic streets.

A powerful and revealing observational documentary that follows members of the Ta’ang minority as they flee to China to escape an ongoing and escalating civil war.

Filmed over three years on China's railways, J. P. Sniadecki's masterful, critically acclaimed documentary traces the vast interiors of a country on the move.

With unprecedented access to a Communist Party leader, investigative filmmaker Zhou Hao offers a startlingly candid look inside Chinese politics at the local level.

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.

In this vivid portrait of China's musical heritage, Sichuan Opera performers strive to keep a centuries-old artform alive.

The mysterious closing of a Beijing school sends hundreds of migrant children on a desperate struggle to reclaim their right to an education.

Directed by one of China's preeminent female filmmakers, this masterful documentary at once explores the particular dynamics of one family and exposes the widespread difficulties faced by migrants living at the margins of Chinese society.

The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.

Documents China's rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou to work in its textile factories.

Dead Souls documents the testimony of survivors of the hard-labor camp in the Gobi Desert in Gansu, China.

The great filmmaker Jia Zhangke travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong to Thailand where they meet workers in the throes of social turmoil.

"The most influential, introspective independent documentary film since the 90s." - Film Art

A remote village in southwest China is haunted by traces of its cultural past while its residents piece together their existence.

When corrupt officials illegally sell villagers’ land, the villagers rise up in an unprecedented experiment in democracy.

The story of an underground church founded by Nigerian missionaries offers a rare glimpse inside an immigrant African community in China.

A highly personal and sometimes uncomfortably intimate documentary chronicling women’s oppression and resistance in mainland China and Hong Kong.

A landmark documentary on the gifted young poet who spoke out at the height of Chairman Mao's rule... and her subsequent fate.

Explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's rights.

Performance artist Li Ning turns his life into art in this epic work of experimental documentary.

A sensitive portrait that explores the commitment, tenacity and personal toll of China's greatest historical documentary maker.

Pioneering artist Hu Jie uncovers the shocking story of girls' school headmistress who was beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revolution.

Using handheld camerawork and digital video, this extraordinary documentary interrogates mental illness and criminality, therapy and incarceration, and the relationship between individuals and society. Riveting, terrifying, tender—and unforgettable.

Filmed in five different regions of China, UMBRELLA provides a telling look at the vast changes that have taken place in Chinese society.

Follow labor activists as they find common ground with workers and help them negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions.