As a person who has taken art exams, Guo Jiang chose to enter the industry of "art exam training" after graduating from university. His role is that of both an educator and a businessman, although most of the time he prefers to appear as "Mr. Guo". The stage on which Mr. Guo's skills are put to use is a small county in central Henan, which is also his hometown. This documentary is about Guo Jiang's career and life.In short, hovering between the desire and the so-called ideal, adhere to or let go, he needs to make a choice.
A passenger on a bus, a man with a barrel on his head, and when they meet, the two worlds are connected...
Liu Haiying, who is praised by patients as the "sword of the world", is a doctor of medicine who grew up during the 80 years of agency thinking. He spent the most important stage of his career in Germany in the mid-1990s, and he developed a rigorous career. Careful and professional character. In many years of medical practice, Liu Haiying often paid out of his pocket to help poor families with severe spinal deformity patients. He knew that if these people did not undergo surgery, they would have organ failure or death waiting for them. However, long-term funding is unsustainable for the economy.Day and night heavy work has made this good doctor with superb medical skills a patient who needs to be taken care of. Colleagues advised him to take more care of his family and body, but he couldn't stop the pace of "saving the wounded." He was still staggering, guarding his life that was hard to give up and saved the wounded.
Danni, a young Chinese girl, comes home to pay her respect to her late grandfather. Out of place in the traditional Muslim environment, she unearths a hidden secret of her past and thus embarks on a journey, against her parents’wishes, in the suppressed but mesmerising world of Islamic culture in modern China.
The term "garbage" is relative, but most people's definition of garbage is absolute and rigid, and the definition of a person like "garbage man" is also relative. Compared to the ostrich that disappears when humans avoid garbage and not see psychological. With a lively and lovely tone, the film brings out the special views of how the two protagonists look at trash when they walk between the cities, and then connects the delicate relationship between their love for trash and their families.
In a city that worships money, there is a group of people who still insist on living the philosophy of "people are not living on food alone." Instead of choosing to live in seclusion, they choose to actively enter the world, improve their hearts, and influence others through artistic creation. Their innovation has not only driven the art world in Hong Kong but more importantly, through their enthusiasm for creation, they have made us understand that as long as we have a "heart", no matter how difficult the environment is, we can persist in a "love".
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.
Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the Japanese during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of these women were still alive to tell their story. Through their own personal histories and perspectives, they tell a tale that should never be forgotten to generations unaware of the brutalization that occurred.
Director Xu Linyu presents four short films: Mother, Father, Daughter and Son, in which the characters are bound together by the same family, but one of the greatest feelings between the relationships is the sense of alienation. During the filming process, Xu Linyu tries to sort out everyone's dilemma and re-understand the family relationship.
Tan Dongdong, aged 16, rode a motorcycle for a living. On his way to get back his ex-girlfriend Lin Qing, Tan Dongdong accidentally got acquainted with hair salon girl Wu Xiaoxia. After learning that Lin Qing had left with another man, Tan Dongdong gradually developed feelings for Wu Xiaoxia. At Tan Dongdong’s request, Wu Xiaoxia agreed to give up her job as a prostitute in the hair salon. However, when Tan Dongdong found out that Wu Xiaoxia had violated the agreement, he chose to take revenge…
Wang Yang has an interview today. However, a series of abrupt and absurd interludes, such as cockroachs that suddenly appear, the phone that he can't get rid of, ceaseless music, and mysterious phone calls, keep popping up to prevent him from leaving the house. The veracity of this story is immediately doubted after he tells his brother about all of this, but he believes that everything that happens to him is real...
Broken Line
The documentary Building Archeology (jiànzhú kǎo) (2011) considers the more recent past. It’s made up of three vignettes about different buildings in Beijing: a museum, an abandoned hospital, and a detention center. The latter two vignettes are especially interesting. In the second, a woman wanders around the ruins of a hospital built in a week to deal with the 2003 SARS outbreak. The third concerns a former prisoner, tracing out a map of the detention center where he was held in 2011.
Romance in Factory
After witnessing the sudden death of a student in a classroom, a cowardly young teacher will face a whole classroom of students who have not yet died suddenly, as well as his own indistinguishable past, in which he exhibits his "name view" in preaching and self-doubt, and a class will pass.
The epilogue of a young and 'blind' Shanghai trilogy. From the edge of the harbor in the first film to the international ruins in the second, the claws of blind flow finally reached downtown. This is a stiff and refreshin music video. A couple misfits in Shanghai, a clown who doesn't wear makeup on stage and a mop-up plan soon will be failed.
During the summer vacation, Xiao Wei was unable to finish his summer vacation homework. The depressing atmosphere in his family bound him tightly. His sister walked freely in the home. Xiao Wei found his toy in his dream ...
岂有此理
In the first scene of the film, the characters in the story enter a child's dream, trying to return to their childhood by looking for strange and familiar memory images in the dream. The film starts with the director's private memories. The still images come from the images and old films taken by the director back in the village where he lived in his childhood. Through the interpenetration of memories in dreams and the present, it explores how "people" deal with trauma at the psychological level.
生活在遠方