China Movies

Featuring rare archive and powerful testimony from former Red Guards and Rebels, CHINA’S 3DREAMS takes us directly to the perspectives of...

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...

Bai Fei, trafficked since childhood, retains only fragmented memories of a camel-shaped mountain. During his desperate search for home, he bonds with...

Migrant workers, factory bosses and nightclub dancers try to carve out a slice of the pie in the city the dollar store built. But China is changing....

Exploring the Anthropocene era characterized by human impact on the planet, this is an enlightening VR film that examines an emerging superpower...

Lao Zha’s film examines rural life in Haiyuan County, in Ningxia Province. Unlike the rapidly globalizing urban centres, here life remains...

This documentary gives fascinating insights into the aspect of Chinese culture that evolved from the One Child policy. Young adults born during the...

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

It has been forty years since the Sanmen Gorge project, a great dam high across the Yellow River at Sanmen Gorge, was completed. It's construction...

Su has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where...

A coming-of-age story about a filmmaker and his family as they struggle to adapt to both a changing world and a traditional one. Can the filmmaker's...

In late October 2022, a developed city splited into two realities. Inside a sealed compound, children run, shout, and play as if the world is small...