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Lost Love

The movie "Lost Love" is a very touching romance film, which adapted from the novel "Still Love" written by Chinese famous writer Leng Ning. By describing two struggling and heartrending love experiences with two deeply impressed girls, the film explores the true meaning of human life and shows the spectacularity of pure love. The story is based on the author’s true experiences and tells the
story of a writer who accidentally got involved in a romantic entanglement with two girls. The two love stories are both pure and shocking, but also too complicated and confused. Love is romance, is beautiful, but also annoying, hurting and exhausted. But through love, they eventually found the true significance of life.

Together Apart

In the vast countryside of China, the Spring Festival is a ceremony cut in time - for practical reasons, it is a short 7-day "gathering" that measures the long 358-day "departure".

Kung Fu Juniors

In a narrative form interweaving cliffhangers and flashbacks, the feature film "Kung Fu Juniors" depicts the commitments to Kung Fu in the Family for four generations from the Greater Bay Area (Foshan), throughout the story in their youths.

The Film portrays four eras, 1925, before the Canton-Hong Kong Strike broke out, 1949, before the founding of New China, 1992, the year Hong Kong film industry reached its peak era, and impromptu speeches were delivered on the Southern Tour, and 2019, in this day and age. These Family stories present the vicissitudes of times in the Greater Bay Area over the past century, also the core values of Kung Fu to personal growth, family tradition inheritance and national identity midst society background differences. The Film profoundly interprets the ideal of "If the youth are robust, our Country will be robust" and the tenacious inheritance of the Kung Fu mettle spanning centuries.

THE COLD AIR

In a small town in the northeast, a car sirens on the street, breaking the winter tranquility. Li Yang wants to leave the county and say goodbye to this town.

Phantom Pursuit

Phantom Pursuit follows a security guard on a thrilling escapade after he accidentally discovers a huge amount of cash in a vehicle left in a parking lot. As he drives the dusty sedan to escape from pursuit, the bizarre car accident on the mountain road late at night, the sudden emergence of the pursuer, and the shocking truth scattered among the mountains turn the original simple greed into a moral test of life and death. On the banks of the river at dawn, this crazy nocturnal journey full of reversals finally leads to a shocking redemptive final chapter. Through its unique night-vision aesthetics and interlocking narrative rhythm, the movie presents a black road fable full of human struggles.

The Ruin

A sick child, a single mother with a meager salary, a man with ulterior
motives and the unpaid demolition compensation... The noise of the
construction site and the music of the music box interweave to create a
fragmented "home".

Remembering

The microfilm *Remembering* portrays a heartwarming story between Lan Lan, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease, and her husband Shi Yongzai. Lan Lan's memory remains fixated on the significant moment preceding her husband's retirement due to her condition, persistently striving to complete her signature dish "Fei Teng Yu Pian" (Sichuan-style Boiled Fish Fillet) intended to celebrate his retirement. Confronting his wife's progressively fading cognition, Shi Yongzai compassionately assumes different identities through daily role-playing to maintain his presence by her side, steadfastly upholding his youthful promise of "always being by your side".

The Spring Never Returns

Zeng Shaoliang is a congenital AIDS carrier. His mother left him and was declared a missing person. His father passed away a few years ago due to AIDS. Zeng Shaoliang lived with his grandmother. Last year, his grandmother also passed away. He now lives alone in a house provided by the government. Every day, his uncle brings him meals. When it was time for him to go to school, neither the village nor the town schools would accept him.

The Spirit Within the Stage and Screen

As traditional opera films decline in popularity today, it may be time for us to revisit history in search of answers and new approaches. This film adopts the method of “oral history through images ” to document the personal memories and life experiences of opera film directors, revealing how they creatively accomplished the intermedia transformation of traditional opera from stage to screen, in the hope of offering insights and references for the study and creation of opera films.

Ebb and Flow

Liang Kai, who is set to immigrate to the United States on the second day of the Lunar New Year, is about to spend his last Chinese New Year in his hometown. In order to bid farewell to his friends, family, and the place he grew up, he decides to set off fireworks for the final time on New Year's Eve. However, the city where Liang Kai lives has enforced a strict ban on fireworks for many years...

HOTLINE BEIJING

The film focuses on the innovative practice of the "Receive and Respond to Complaints Immediately" reform, addressing common governance challenges faced by mega-cities worldwide. It paints a dynamic picture of how a single hotline has driven governance reform in a mega-city. Using an international narrative style, the film presents Beijing’s story of "Chinese governance" to a global audience. The documentary vividly captures the heartfelt experiences and emotions of the personnel working in the *"Receive and Respond to Complaints Immediately"* system across various roles.

寻觅三生

"Life, Survival, Living" is a unique Three-Life Education program in Yunnan, which has evolved into Mr. Phoenix's distinctive "Three Lives" in Dali—Survival, Living, and Vitality

SEE YOU

In Yongning Ancient Town, Quanzhou, Fujian, China, Abin and his girlfriend live in the Wuliu Courtyard with six cats and a dog. Their journey from “escaping the world” to “secluded living” feels like a fairy tale. Behind this idyllic and tranquil life lies a cat named See You. This is a poetic journey of simplicity and contentment, set in the final homeland of southern Fujian, where they embrace the overlooked, slow, and warm rhythm of life

寻梦葭莱坞

This film follows LELY, a young woman returning from Hollywood, as she documents her poetic encounters and spiritual odyssey through four ancient villages along the western banks of the Yellow River's

Silent Crescendo

Sixteen-year-old Zhu dreams of piano fame, ignored by classmates. His father demands exam focus with prescribed pieces, but Zhu secretly reworks them for his own audition.

Combustible Point

The naturally beautiful thirty-year-old model Yu Man finds herself at a low point in her career, forced to make ends meet by delivering takeout while tirelessly working to pay off her younger brother Yu Di's debts. Her roommate Shen Que, a survivor of the Haihe fire incident fromten years ago, suspects that Yu Man took advantage of their cohabitation to burn her fire investigation documents. Furthermore, based on subtle clues, Shen Que believes Yu Di was the arsonist responsible for the fire back then, which has fueled her hostility toward Yu Man, leading to constant arguments between the two. Just as Yu Man’s finances are stretched to the limit, her gambling-addicted brother shows up demanding money and resorting to violent threats. Unexpectedly, in this moment of crisis, ShenQue—the roommate she always disliked—steps in to help. In doing so, she uncovers long-buried memories from years ago…

Dream Therapy

Dream Therapy follows Wen Ran, a high school student struggling with academic anxiety. One night, she enters a surreal dream world where she encounters her future self. Guided through mysterious corridors, blooming gardens, and a hall of mirrors reflecting multiple possible futures, Wen Ran ultimately meets her older self on a rooftop. In a quiet, emotional exchange, her future self offers perspective and comfort, encouraging her to relax and reconcile with herself. Upon waking, Wen Ran feels a sense of relief. She reaches out to her mother for a weekend walk in nature—an act that signals emotional growth and inner transformation. Through poetic visuals and symbolic imagery, the film sensitively explores the inner world of teenagers facing pressure, delivering a hopeful message: Only by learning to let go can we move forward.

So Like My Native Hills

The cycle of mountains and people always involves changes between life and death. However, there are always things beyond the rules, overlooking all movements, neither happy nor sad. The work records the reincarnation in Shui Nan Village from an observer's perspective, exploring the deep meaning behind the ruins, ancestral halls, and spring plowing routines, where the emotions of the younger and older generations overlap.

From ruins, ancestral halls and residential buildings, the silent mountains and the gazes of the onlookers converge, jointly gazing at "life". In this changing chapters, we long to find that moment similar to the past, to determine where we came from. In this way, the work hopes to inscribe an eternal self-questioning about the undefinable emotions of homeland, tracing for the lost and unreturnable past.

Shelter

The story is set on a seemingly uneventful afternoon. Qisi is organizing the clutter, accidentally found a CD. Her boyfriend nervously snatched away and claimed that it was only company information. However, the doubts in Qisi's heart did not dissipate, she secretly viewed and found that her boyfriend had done something to her in a special space, and before she could find the truth, her boyfriend went into the study to snatch it, and the cell phone fell down and accidentally became the key to unlock the image of twenty years ago. Originally, the boyfriend in the imminent arrival of the end of the time choose to upload the consciousness to create a space of consciousness, Qisi just rely on the intact preservation of the brain, in this false world day after day. Image at this moment, the two of them are jointly faced with the decision to turn on or off the anthropomorphic environment. Qisi was caught in a deep struggle, and after an inner torment, she finally made her own choice.

Bye, Spring

The girl Yu Shengnan grew up with her grandmother and mother, relying on each other for survival. Her mother's sudden passing shattered the peace. As her mother was dying, her last wish was to entrust Shengnan to her father, who had been divorced for many years. Shengnan, though young, waswell-behaved. She was unable to express her inner sorrow and could only go along with the wishes of her elders, pushed forward by their decisions. She did not understand what this farewell meant, only seeing the passing of a spring and the withering of the rapeseed flowers. Shengnan, her grandmother, and her father each had their own thoughts, accepting both a farewell and a new beginning.

The Person Without a Name

“The Person Without a Name” stems from an infatuation with the unreliability of childhood memories. Spaces such as amusement parks, fields, railway tracks, and rivers—these once bore an individual’s earliest joys and traumas, yet over time, they have crumbled into fragmented imagery. The film endeavors to explore a central theme through a boy’s wandering: when the concept of "home" is absent in reality, how do we reconstruct a sense of belonging with the shards of memory and private rituals?

镜外

Outside the Mirror is a highly self-reflexive short film that explores the intricate and fragile boundaries between reality, fiction, performance, and the inner psyche through a consciously adopted "metamedia lens." Utilizing a nested "play-within-a-play" structure, a confined and enigmatic film set space, a camera and suitcase endowed with surreal functions, and a protagonist trapped in a loop of madness, the film attempts to understand or reach the truth "outside the mirror" within a narrative maze collectively woven by consciousness, social roles, and media technology.

Memory · Blue

"Memory · Blue" attempts to delicately capture the emotional weight carried by objects through calm and restrained images, outlining the complex emotions of modern people when facing memory, family affection and self-worth. The film presents not only the story of a fashion designer regaining inspiration, but also a private poem about how to retrieve the fragments of love from the ruins of memory and thereby rebuild the inner order and connection of life.

Wu Wu Ming

"Wu Wu Ming" (Enlightenment of Non-Ignorance) is set against the backdrop of a quintessential contemporary Chinese urban-rural fringe area. It focuses on the existential state of an anonymous small-town youth. Employing an almost detached, "silent observer" perspective, the film extensively utilizes long takes and richly metaphorical environmental imagery. With a cold yet poignant subtlety, it delineates the pervasive dilemmas arising amidst the interwoven post-industrial landscapes and remnants of rural nature: the protagonist's loss of identity, the futility of resistance, and the collective displacement of spiritual belonging across generational shifts.

White Day of the Beginning of Autumn

"White Day of the Beginning of Autumn" adopts the perspective of a detached observer of life, calmly immersing the camera into the daily fabric of a small town. It attempts to outline the common spiritual predicament faced by contemporary Chinese small-town youth through a personal story of returning home, trauma, and departure. In the tug-of-war between tradition and modernity, the wavering between hometown and elsewhere, and the disillusionment of intimate relationships, how do individuals seek emotional anchors and the courage to exist. How do they perceive the unique, cool glimmer and turning point of the "Beginning of Autumn" season beneath the "white day" of life.

Spring Will Be Fine

“Spring Will Be Fine” is an experimental short film focusing on the profound alienation, identity loss, and spiritual confinement experienced by modern individuals within a highly materialistic and technologically driven society. Through a series of visually symbolic images, the film portrays an anonymous man struggling to find identity and spiritual liberation within an alienating environment saturated with cold symbols, artificial falsehoods, and invisible suffocation.

A Train Passes By

In a southern town, Wu You passes through the railway tunnel every day. Until one day, an unopened letter appears in the corner of a poster. As the train's roar echoes through the tunnel once more, she gathers the courage to open it—only to find the endless train disappearing into the distance.

SHU JIU

SHU JIU set against the backdrop of a transforming industrial town in Northeast China, the film tells the story of a young man left unemployed after the demolition of his workplace—a traditional errenjie theater. By chance, he enters the profession of a mobile bath assistant, serving elderly clients with limited mobility. Through bathing these fragile bodies, he confronts the vulnerability and dignity of life while tracing fragmented memories of his late father in the seniors he cares for. Gradually, he uncovers the unspoken emotional bonds between generations and comes to understand the true essence of compassionate care. With quiet warmth and subtle grace, The Long Winter weaves the cultural shifts of Northeast China into its narrative. It delicately portrays ordinary youth navigating survival and emotional redemption amid societal transformation, offering a poignant meditation on aging, mortality, and the reevaluation of kinship and memory.

孑孓

Wriggler takes the throbbing of life from a microscopic perspective as its starting point, constructing a psychological space full of symbols and metaphors, and profoundly exploring the spiritual dilemmas of women under the confusion of identity, the oppression of gender gaze, and existential loneliness. The film adopts a highly visualized "inner bystander" perspective, integrating surreal elements such as broken reflections and dilapidated idols, delicately outlining women's emotional torn when facing internal constraints and external discipline, as well as the hidden journey of seeking self-liberation and reconstruction on the verge of disillusionment and destruction.

Passing the Wind, Fire and Dancing Meteors

Have you ever seen Meteors dancing in their hands? Let's follow the perspective of Han Jiayue, a young inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, and enter Fenghuoliuxing, experiencing the shocking scene of "wind makes fire more vigorous".