CathayPlay InstitutionTag: Documentary
Setting Sun
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the rural areas of Northeast China, as the Chinese New Year is approaching, children come to their grandfather’s house…
A Life in Six Chapters
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A Life in Six Chapters presents a visual portrait of Xiao Jun (1907-1988), a left-wing Chinese writer who befriended the…
Flying On Land
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary…
We Wandered Through The Cracks Of The Walls And Were Consumed By The Toilet
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Due to Covid-19, exploratory field trips to the countryside turned into school trips. Just when we thought we were going…
Artificial Ocean
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The cry of the ocean is often heard from the aquarium in the suburbs. Mermaids can be seen dancing beneath…
I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Thirty-year-old Viv Li is studying art in Belgium and hasn’t lived in her native China for ten years. During the…
A Meal at Chen
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
It is recommended to watch “Catch the Ghost” first, then watch the film. On the third day of the first…
Four fragments
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The film is composed of clips of footage shot in 2010-2015. The first clip: filmed in 2015, the daily study…
Frame
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A documentarian, who always can’t capture the most important footage, tries to use documentary film to understand her grandfather’s death….
A Zoo with a Bronze Bull
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
One day there were dark clouds, the Zoo with a Bronze Bull was deserted and the animals were deathly pale….
Ants Dynamics
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Wang Chuyu, an artist from Beijing, returned home in 2018. He took part in China telecom workers’ rights protection campaigns…
The Story of the Stone
2017-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A young Italian man came to Wudang mountains in the north of China and stayed in a Taoistic Wushu(martial art)…
Absurd
2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Police station is a messy place, there are the police and the masses. The police often couldn’t solve the difficulties…
Summer
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The short film recorded a group of children living status in a brick factory.Their parents work here to earn money.Because…
The Blind Storytellers
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living…
Shattered
2011-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Tang Caifeng (also known as Tang Xiaoyan) has been away from home for many years and involved in prostitution and…
Chinese Closet
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Homosexuals are always in an awkward position, hidden in the closet, hiding not only their sexual orientation, but also the…
On the Road
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Only a few days before the Spring Festival of 2018, several truck drivers set off from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, to…
The Cold Winter
2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
From the end of 2009 to the beginning of 2010, Beijing 798 art zone was undergoing a relocation. Surprisingly, some…
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…
Fortune Teller
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Half a lifetime alone, Li Baicheng is a folk fortune-teller. At the age of 40, he met a disabled Shi…
New Beijing, New Marriage
2009-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
On February 14th, 2009, Valentine’s Day, two couples were going to get married on this day. From the early preparation…
Behind the Smile
Behind the Smile is an interview-focused documentary that takes a look at my friend Eden and explores what daily life…
The Meeting of Souls
The Meeting of Souls is a poetic documentary about a woman called Yazhi Zhou, who works as a counsellor, a…