China Movies

A report on the demographic impact of China’s one-child policy.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang negotiated cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party while...

A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, remote and developing areas in southwest China,...

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

For the first time, a French director-journalist will join an official trip to the heart of one of the most secret regions in China: Xinjiang....

The story of a group of plateau oil rig workers and how their lives change when they move from the rural grasslands and into the city.

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its...

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been...

A young huntress with a hidden secret learns to accept her true self, while helping to defend her new animal companion. If they are not careful, the...

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Three faded photographs lead the filmmaker Tian Macleod Ji and his great uncle to China’s countryside, on a journey to explore both the tender...

Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her body covered in blood. As she struggles to find her...

An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United...

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...

A young french man discovers a letter written in mandarin in an antique shop in France. After having it translated, he becomes captivated by its...

An abridged history of motion pictures: In 1888 George Eastman registered the made up word “Kodak” as a trademark. In 1894 Jean...

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.