China Movies

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...

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.

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

“Are you a man, or a woman?” In a world built on binaries, this is the question every trans soul must learn to answer—again and...

A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships...

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There...

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

Pisces is an art film which explores ritual, identity, and transformation, drawing from Lovecraftian mythos, Chinese Folk ritual, Five Elemental...

To really understand China, you have to get to know its people! Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China’s first tier cities –...

Presented by the British Museum this is the story of the most famous army in the world. A triumph of early mass production and craftmanship, they...

In recent years, Chinese investment has poured into Southeast Europe, offering access to desperately-needed development financing. But at what cost?...

A man returns to his hometown in northeast China and meets a restaurateur of the same age. They discover a deep connection with each other through...

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....

Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality...

Nop is a small time thief who gets a job from the local Chinese mafia in Bangkok. He and another guy have to pick up some girls from a small fishing...

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

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in...

This film offers us a juxtaposed journey of two priests: Father Van Ban, a Vietnamese priest from the parish of Thy Hu in the Hé region, who...