CathayPlay InstitutionAnthropology Film
Fire is burning
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Before and after the release of the new crown epidemic prevention and control, the two elementary school students on the…
Go with the Flow
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The Dan people living on the Jiulong River in Fujian,China, have made a living from fishing for generations and their…
Goodbye, Mum
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Ainiannian,“Ai（亻厓）”means “My”in Hakka dialect,and I call my mother“Niannian（嬭嬭）” in Hakka dialect. This is a private image in memory of my…
Philosopher in the Mountains
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This film tells the story of Zhao Xiaolong, a young man from the Yao ethnic group on the Sino-Vietnamese border…
Bobby’s Factory
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Bobby, a Nigerian, has lived in China for twelve years. He and his Chinese wife opened a factory making cosmetics…
Chinese Meet Africa
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary series Chinese Meet Africa is co-directed by Zhang Yong, a scholar specialized in African films and images at…
From Old Man to Child
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, on the Sino-Vietnamese border in Yunnan Province, there is a Yao village called Lengpo. The…
Ordinary Corner
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, Yunnan Province, on the China-Vietnam border, there is a mountain village primary school. On one…
The Yukou Paper II
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“Yukou Paper” is a kind of traditional handmade paper in Ninghua, which is located in northwest of Fujian province. “Yu”…
Eastbank Westbank
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“Eastbank • Westbank” documents our exploration of the old and newly built parts of Peitian Village (Fujian Province). We also…
Exile
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Su Dongming, nicknamed “Cousin”, is a primary school student in Lan Indiyao on the Sino-Vietnamese border. In the eyes of…
Hundreds Tin Pots Feast
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
“Hundreds Tin Pots Feast” is a folk custom of Hakka people in West Fujian, also known as Protection Rite of…
Treasure, Orientation and the Ancestors
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The Four-Day Taiping Qing Jiao is celebrated from the second to the fifth day of the ninth month on the…
Blang Doctor
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Chen came from a family of herbal doctors, who have treated numerous orthopaedics dseases, severe and minor. Chen’s house, hardly…
Ferry Chronicle - Zhou Family
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This documentary, edited over a period of six years, spans 20 years in the lifetime of three families of workers…
I Am Zhuang
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Beixnuengx means compatriot in the Zhuang language. I was born and raised in the city. Although I am Zhuang (China’s…
Spring Cattle Festival
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
This film records this folk custom in 2017. Every year around the Beginning of Spring in the lunar calendar, Zhang…
Swinging Mud Buddha
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In Juh e village, Tongfang town, Changting county, Fujian province, the lord Guan (Xietian the great) visits the fields on…
Ferry Chronicle - He Family
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
At the end of the 1990s, about 40-50 million industrial workers were laid off in China, and the family population…
Miners, Groom, Pneumoconiosis
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In southwestern Hunan where the local economy is not active, people either go to cities to work or mine the…
Seedlings Protection Rite
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in…
Village Opera History
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The 60s witnesses the quick demoliton of an old temple followed by the erection of an opera theater in Shijia…
Beyond the mountains
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Daqi Village is located in Shichao Township, Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. The village has…
Doctor Ma's Country Clinic
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In Huangyangchuan Town, Gulang County, Gansu Province, a village doctor, Ma Bingcheng, appeared, who is highly praised by villagers. In…
Survival Song
2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of…
Immortals in the Village
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In a cold mountain village of the northeastern China, there’s a locally famous Shaman Xu. In his youth, he had…
Letter from Xiaobei
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A woman in Ecuador reads a letter from her Chinese friend, telling her about the city Guangzhou and its special…
The Disappearing Camel Caravan
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
People call those who haul camels to and from desert areas and take camel transportation as their profession camel caravans….
Myanmar Bride: A story of A zhen, Ma Yong & Han’Ai
2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwestern border of China, is home to many women who married…
The Road
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was…
The Iron Ministry
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Filmed for three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors and thick gestures of a country…
Wugong sutra
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The “Wugong sutra” is also known as “Transfer to the Sky”. A prophecy written by the people since the Five…
Young Jigme
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
There are two roads in the woods. You can only take one of them, and wonder about the other for…
Lost Mountain
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Gei Libao, the former Olunchun hunter raised more than 100 Hunting horses in the traditional way. Although hunting was banned,…
The Last Moose of Ao Lu Gu Ya
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The moose is the largest animal of the Great Xingan Mountains. Mighty, sensitive, and majestic, he has been hunted and…
Theflower-drumSong
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The arrogant Hua Pozi, the first-time brother who is full of joy. Even the seemingly greasy, exaggerated, and gaudy drum…
Village Diary
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Jiaoyu Village is located in the Yimeng Mountain area. It is a small mountain village that is neither too small…
Yumen
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
‘Yumen’ combines ghost stories and the ‘ruin tourism’ to form a celluloid psychocollage of wandering souls, seeking connection to each…
A Clear Sky
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
On the Mongolian plateau, the Geritu family fought against flying snow to cut camel hair, deliver calves, feed newborn calf…
Oh, the San Xia
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In 2010, the Three Gorges Dam on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River stored water to 175 meters, marking…
People's Park
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
People’s Park is a 75-minute single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in…
Revive
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Geomancy is to say hinding winds to gain water. The earth is mother , burial brings peace to the deceased,…
The Nuo parade
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
On the thirteenth of the first month of each year, Xiafang Village, Anle Township, even in the cold and rain,…
The story of mushroom picking
2012-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the mountains of western Fujian, mushrooms emerge in large numbers after rain. Hakka people pick mushrooms up the mountain…
Bachelor Mountain
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the forest of Heilongjiang Province, the top north of China, timber supplies have dwindled after a century of logging…
Chronicles of Hulling Rice
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the sound of rice huller, the rice falls to the jar; and in the booming sound of thunder, the…
Divine Doctor
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Guan Kuanyi is seventy-six years old this year, and is the only surviving shaman of the Elunchun. Every first or…
Dragon Boat
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The filming began in 2001 and lasted for ten years, recording the story of the dragon boat in Lianxi Village…
Falling From the Sky
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Little-known Suining county lies directly in the path of falling debris from the Xichang Satellite Launching Base, one of three…
Game Theory
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the spring of 2005, a company wanted to build a factory on the cultivated land of Maying Village, and…
Old Genealogy
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Record the entangled experience for changing the genealogy. Record the experience for engraving movable type, hand-printed….
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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….
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…