China Movies

Highlights the rebellious young generation of artists in China fighting for political emancipation, artistic freedom and creating a cultural golden...

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.

This tells events of the 26th year of the Ganlu era, during which the Emperor Long Aotian of the Ye Dynasty fell seriously ill. Suddenly, Lu Sha, the...

China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he commands the world’s attention, but...

Doctor and whip-wielding Hero Chai Tin-sum travels to an isolated village where he finds the population dying of the plague while being oppressed by...

As a doctor, Zhiyuan Wang spent 30 years studying how to save lives. He never imagined that he would spend another 10 years investigating how Chinese...

Filmed inside Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens document the daily work of a state pharmacy that functions as both...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was...

Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to...

Last night, I dreamt that I talked to MrBeast. He told me he like one of my films with the alphabets in front of my home. Don't want to disappoint...

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We...

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly unable to accept the...

A man returns to his hometown in northeast China and meets a restaurateur of the same age. They discover a deep connection with each other through...

A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forbidden City and Great Wall are followed by...