CathayPlay InstitutionNon-Fiction
The Garden
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary “The Garden” focuses on the “old city renovation” project of BaDaHu Residential area in Qingdao. After the film…
The Road
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary film, The Road, reveals the status of 22 students who study in a private village school in Hunan…
The Starving Village
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using…
The Yellow Bank
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Watching, waiting, and traversing: a portrait of Shanghai at the confluence of tempestuous weather, looming architecture, and murky waterways during…
Trashy Treasure
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The term “garbage” is relative, but most people’s definition of garbage is absolute and rigid, and the definition of a…
Where Should I Go?
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
How far is the city in the countryside? For families like Zhang Zhili and Yang Xiuqing, it is more than…
Yuguo and His Mother
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia, in the deep snow-covered old forest of Aoluguya, worried about his mother Liu…
1428
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, the Great Sichuan Earthquake struck. On the 10th day after the earthquake, devastation was…
Buried
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary film “Buried” uses a factual and objective viewpoint to revisit, with a commitment to truth and depth, that…
Classmates
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Twenty plus classmates look back into the past, tracing back through a 30 year history. One after another adapts to…
Fortune Teller
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Half a lifetime alone, Li Baicheng is a folk fortune-teller. At the age of 40, he met a disabled Shi…
Music and Life
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film spanned six years to chronicle the growth of the Hong Kong piano prodigy Huang Family in music and…
New Beijing, New Marriage
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
On February 14th, 2009, Valentine’s Day, two couples were going to get married on this day. From the early preparation…
New Castle
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
New Castle is a remote rural village where houses and mountains have been distorted due to excessive mining. Under the…
Reconstructing Faith
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In Yueyang City, Hunan Province, there are about 300 members of the Buddhist Nostalgia Group. In which, 80 per cent…
RED WHITE
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A small rural township called Red White was seriously devastated by the May 12th Earthquake in China 2008. A 62-year-old…
Storm under the Sun (Chinese Version)
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
Storm under the Sun (English Version)
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is the first feature documentary concerning Mao’s purge of writers and focuses on the 1955 Anti-Hu Feng Campaign, where…
The Fly
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Liu Peipei is painting in his studio. His model is a young woman. During the process of making his painting,…
The Longwang Chronicles: a Year of Lifes in a Chinese Village
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Unusually popular religions and extreme secular beliefs, unconstrained power and no authoritarian society, people work hard on the land and…
The Sound Of Silence
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Only the dry wind in the wilderness is waiting for the hero to visit again seven years later. This is…
The Yukou Paper
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named…
All's Right with the World
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
There is no country in the world without poverty. Whether in a capitalist or communist society, there are poor people….
Chaiqian (Demolition)
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Chaiqian (Demolition) is a portrait of urban space, migrant labor, and ephemeral relationships in the center of Chengdu, the capital…
Church Cinema
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the summer of 2007, Gan Xiaoer led an independent film projection team, using projectors and self-made screens, to tour…
Flood
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Dayu Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty and is located in the north of Zhouyuan Village, Sudong Township, Hancheng…
Hip-Hop Storm
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This is a documentary about two generations of hip-hop. It records Allen’s journey to Paris, France to participate in the…
The District Councillor
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The year 2003 is a rather turbulent period for Hong Kong – the economy was in recession, the government constantly…
We
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The voices in this film are all conscientious citizens doing their utmost to improve the state of their nation. Their…
Wheat Harvest
2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei,…
Ancient Species
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Xiong Jiefeng is a young man who decided to return to the countryside of Yunnan to the farm after working…
AOLUGUYA, AOLUGUYA
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Far away from the noisy Greater Khingan Range, a legendary nation Reindeer Ewenki lived there for generations. Coming from more…
Bing’ai
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have…
Brave Father
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In 2002, Han Peiyin’s son, Han Shengli, was admitted to a university in Xi’an and came to the city from…
Bridge
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Built in 1968, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is the quintessential landmark of Nanjing City. It’s been described by propaganda as…
Card Boom
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Cheng Sanhe, the first “Kanu” who successfully filed for bankruptcy in Taiwan, went from being inexplicably indebted at the beginning…
Noise
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Noise has no shot purpose. Everything presented to you by the camera maybe is not entertainment nor reflection, but disorder…
Songhua
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The Songhua River runs through Harbin, the capital of China’s Heilongjiang province, and serves as the city’s main water source….
Transition-Space
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This film is an observation of the public space of the areas that link the city and village. It tries…
Umbrella
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Pay attention to the five-part documentary about the current farmers trying to break free from the land. Each paragraph is…
Way of Fortune
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“Mazu” or “The Sea God” has been the most important religious belief of ordinary people in my hometown for four…
Wu Ding River
2007-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In northern Shaanxi, those three-wheeled trucks who came to the city from rural areas came to be suffering. They talked…
Dream Walking
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“The disorder of our world resembles that of our hearts.” Following on from floating dust, this is the second part…
Little feet
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Xiayao Village, Youyu County, Shanxi ProvinceThe 7-year-old and big-footed Bai Nu and Liu Buhan, both of whom died because of…
Religion
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Huangyangchuan township, Gulang County, Gansu province. In a village, two members of a family died in accidents in a short…
Timber Gang
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Forests have been exploited for a living for over a century here. Due to the huge transportation inconveniences, people here…
Torch Troupe
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“Torch Troupes” got their name from the Cultural Revolution period when traditional Sichuan Opera shows were prohibited in public and…
Who Is Haoran
2006-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A group of small-town boys has prepared to beat up on this boy named Haoran for a long while. Belligerent…
Before the Flood
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In order to build the world’s largest hydropower station - China Yangtze River Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the Yangtze River…
CHEN LU
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Painter Lin Xin tells the story of a thousand-year-old ceramic town in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau in this…
Fangshan Church
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
More than a decade ago, in a remote little town named Fangshan, in the north of Jiangsu Province, with the…
Outside
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film was filmed from 2001 to 2005. The lengths of the clips vary from a few minutes to a…
Walk in the dark
2005-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Bao, a blind woman, sings every day on the streets of Peking to make a living. She is caught up…
Aunt
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A portrait of an old lady who’s been through the Republic of China, Civil war, the Cultural Revolution, until the…
Carriage
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The upcoming Spring Festival signals the end of a year. The crowds were bustling around the train station, managing to…
Floating Dust
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This film describes the life of some ordinary people in a small town in southern China. Among them, there is…
Wellspring
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Lei Xiguan has had cerebral palsy since early childhood, and communicates with others using his foot. Far from being shut…
Baby
2003-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The baby is a temporary floating population. He works diligently, from a small restaurant owner to a tea shop manager…
In the Military Training Camp
2003-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Our production unit spent more than 10 days together with some students who were taking a formation drill during their…
Springtime in Wushan (Restored Version)
2003-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Wushan, an old town alongside the Yangtze river, has been demolished and reduced to ruins, is about to be flooded…