China Movies

China's sky-rocketing growth and shortage of sufficient resources is forcing China to set its sights outside its borders in a frantic search for oil,...

“Bored in Heaven” follows New Years celebrations in Putian, Fujian, Southeast China. An experiential project based on 20 years of...

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The documentary project follows the young students of a small daoist kung fu school in Wudang, China. The documentary focuses on their daily life and...

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

Cultural documentary featuring a Chinese folk dance performance held in the courtyard of Auguste François's house in Yunnanfu, present-day...

People call those who haul camels to and from desert areas and take camel transportation as their profession camel caravans. However, with the...

Take a trip to the amazing Chinese capital without leaving your own home. Not content with a tourist-only view of Beijing, this documentary hangs...

Ran Ran is about to leave Beijing. With only ten days left, how will she decide to spend the rest of her time?

An insight into the Indigenous culture and traditions in Taiwan, from clothing, tattooing, art and music to tourist destinations.

Footage of Wuhan, China, during the coronavirus quarantine.

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...

Miao Miao, her brother Xiaolong and Xin Liao are some of the happy kids who live in the Sun Villages created by Mrs. Zhang Shuqin. But in reality...

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...

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

In the film, images from archives of photographic documentation of encounters between politicians and activists in India with their counterparts in...

In a street in the north of Shanghai we find a small restaurant, dirty and run-down, but with lots of personality, where Chinese noodles (miantiao)...

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...