CathayPlay InstitutionNon-Fiction
Immortals in the Village
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In a cold mountain village of the northeastern China, there’s a locally famous Shaman Xu. In his youth, he had…
Inner Ear Inflammation
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Filming of the first Inner Ear Music Festival….
Jin Han Yu
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film records a middle-aged woman Han Mei who longs for life. In the fight against the disease, the experience…
Letter from Xiaobei
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special…
Mrs Lei
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Lei Suyun was born in 1934, and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010. Lei Suyun has forgotten a lot of…
Nobody
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Since Dawei Zhang disappeared, a friend of him has revisited the place where they’ve shared their lives together. Psychedelic and…
Swallowtail Butterfly
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
‘Body’ is an object we are all familiar with. For British sculptor Anthony Gormley, it is a medium for expressing…
The Disappearing Camel Caravan
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
People call those who haul camels to and from desert areas and take camel transportation as their profession camel caravans….
The Family in Sinkhole
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Daguoquan which was a leprosy town, is the biggest sinkhole in Yunnan province, China. It is well-known by outside world…
The Story of the Stone
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A young Italian man came to Wudang mountains in the north of China and stayed in a Taoistic Wushu(martial art)…
The Two Shovels
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Two shovels caused by a homicide case let the young treasure son in the whirlpool dilemma…..
TWENTY TWO
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
TWENTY TWO is a last gaze at the 22 “comfort women” survivors in China. Through a restrained and careful approach,…
Uncle
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Li is over 70 years old, he sits in front of his window in the afternoon every day and smokes…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Football
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
These are conversations I had with four football partners respectively on the way to the football field，on the way back…
Who is my lord
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The story of a girl attempted suicide for love and finally returned to religion….
Arribeños
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A bus turns at a corner in Buenos Aires and suddenly it seems to have arrived on the other side…
Autumn, Winter and Summer
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Two families’ oral history of the Cultural Revolution and their current life….
Bridges Burned
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the autumn of 2010, the poet Xiaozhao set off from Beijing and took a national tour of his personal…
Bright Sun Mansion
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Fang Yulin is a 65-year-old Peking opera actor who now works in a nail salon in New York, helping people…
Home Letter from Veteran
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Listening to veterans telling about their past is an extraordinary life experience. Serial one: Chen Baochen; Serial two: Li Sanbao;…
Hu’An
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film, as a crystal of seven years observation and three years shooting, recounts the social changes of Xiaoluoshui, a…
Jia Yi
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary, “JIAYI”, adopts a particular position from where it objectively and non-discriminatingly uncovers a real world of these left-behind…
Lone Existence
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate…
Myanmar Bride: A story of A zhen, Ma Yong & Han’Ai
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwestern border of China, is home to many women who married…
Papa Rainbow
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In China, most families have difficulties facing their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) children. They have to contend with…
Ram
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This investigative documentary gives a comprehensive record of the development of China’s “August 3 Crackdown on Mafia” campaign. Li Xiaoming,…
Rewind
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
I bought a VHS player to watch my parents’ wedding video. My mother came by and chatted with me as…
Shuang Jing
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The story happened near the Shuangjing subway station in Beijing. The female stall owner was aggrieved by the selective enforcement…
South Street
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Since 2007, the director of this film has initiated and participated in charity activities for the relief of the refugees…
The Spokesperson
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Cuizhen is a barber. As a foreigner, she is rejected by the locals. A serious illness ten years ago gave…
A filmless festival
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Perhaps the encounter of an independent film today is only a necessary stage in the process. People’s rejection and negation…
A Young Patriot
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In 2009, during the Pingyao Photography Exhibition, Xiao Zhao, a patriotic young man studying in high school, shouted for the…
Absurd
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Police station is a messy place, there are the police and the masses. The police often couldn’t solve the difficulties…
Anti-Japanese War Veteran
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A veteran, Mr. Long’s life was full of legend. Yet, he lived his life in silence and never told others…
No Destination
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film records a long journey by Guo Kuan and his friends, as well as a post-cycling biography. The changes…
Old Veterans Never Die
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Different veterans, different memories of the Anti-Japanese War, and different lives. The oral narratives of 7 veterans show you the…
Rooms With Mao's Images
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film was shot in Gulang, Gansu. I have been to the homes of many friends, studentsand acquaintances in the…
Scar
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Scars, which are unfortunate or unexpected results, are also signs of healing. This new connective tissue replaces the process of…
Shanghai Youth
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship…
Still Life
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The…
The Road
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was…
The Rocking Sky
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
There used to be a group of young people. Every time they took off, they could be farewell. Every time…
The ShoeShiner's Journey
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
If someday on a noisy city street or a dusty road of a remote village in China, a battered van…
The Son
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“If there is any chance, I will let him live well No matter where he is.” The old lady cried…
We Are Here
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
What happens when 300 lesbians from around the world attend the largest United Nations conference? How did two busloads of…
Children at a Village School
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
2011,It’s a chilly winter,as the documentary filmmaker of Left-behind Dreams, I left Beijing,came back to the village in remote mountainous…
Dialogue
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film records the dialogue and thinking between different ethnic groups such as Tibetans, Uygurs, and Hans in China. The…
Factory Boy
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In 1978 Deng Xiaoping set up Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in China, and this decision led to the…
Foolish Village
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I…
Hi, Pan
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
For the dream of music, Pan, the folk singer, left home for Guangzhou. Two years ago, he released his first…
Homecoming
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In a city that worships money, there is a group of people who still insist on living the philosophy of…
Ninth Uncle
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This documentary aims to show the stories of ordinary people on Zhongshan Road represented by night market manager Ninth Uncle,…
Planting for Life
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Old Jia and his wife Shang Ying left the noisy city and settled down in the countryside, where they began…
Summer
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The short film recorded a group of children living status in a brick factory.Their parents work here to earn money.Because…
The Blind Storytellers
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living…
The Iron Ministry
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Filmed for three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors and thick gestures of a country…
The Ninth Grade
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Class 172 is a key class for their excellent students of an ordinary secondary school in Hunan province, from which…
Thirty Something
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In a small city in northeast China, few people close to their thirties, are facing their own problems: changing jobs,…
Wugong sutra
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The “Wugong sutra” is also known as “Transfer to the Sky”. A prophecy written by the people since the Five…