When Viv Li returns to Beijing after a decade abroad, she grapples with the realities of her dual identity, diving into…
Underneath the glamor of a successful fashion designer's life in Shanghai, Chen Chen navigates hidden complexities and …
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
With a global perspective, this educational documentary sheds light on the evolution of one of the most revolutionary e…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
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…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
This documentary follows the career of Joan Fontcuberta, considered the most important contemporary visual artist in Sp…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
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…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
A captivating portrait of three characters in three different Mediterranean countries united by a single passion: the m…
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
In a world where pollution is already a commodity, this fascinating financial thriller reveals the cracks in the tradin…
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