Documentary Films

Against an old rule of Cantonese opera, Tan Yinglun and Wang Houwei try to break through by playing the "Dan", an iconi…

In China they called "comfort women" to girls and women that the Japanese empire forced into sexual labor during the oc…

Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this documentary shows the reality - not seen in the state media - of the Sichua…

Shot mostly on cell phones, this documentary chronicles the ban on the Beijing Independent Film Festival by the Chinese…

Precise, unpredictable, alive. This documentary follows a group of men trying to make their way down the roads of south…

A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…

This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…

Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…

In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…

Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…

This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …

Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…