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Documentary about China's film industry and the monumental changes in the past 40 years from beginning with propaganda films to the "5th generation" filmmakers and beyond, who embraced art and commercial films to make China the second largest box office market in the world after Hollywood.

One Man Funeral 2021 ( 4)

Zhusheng's father suddenly died under the watchful eyes of the old dog. The dog witnessed the whole process of Luo's arrangement of his father's funeral. When Luo is embalming his father's body, outside in the forest comes a gunshot. As the forest ranger, Luo has to put down his father's body and patrol the forest. During the night, Luo sits alone on top of the hill, and he can't help crying bitterly. On their way home, Luo and the old dog rescue a lamb that has almost been eaten by a wolf. Luo takes the injured lamb home, give it herbal medicine, and the lamb gradually recovers. Luo continues to handle his father's funeral affairs in an orderly way. He digs the grave, prepares a hearth, makes dough figures, and the coffin. He follows the ancient rituals handed down from generation to generation in every process. At this moment, the dog, his companion, smells danger outside the door. The wolf is approaching…

Robbers from Shandong 1927

Maybe Blue 2025

Somewhere in the waters of equatorial Asia, shrouded in a veil of timelessness occasionally pierced by the intrusions of modernity, an ascetic has set forth on a dawn-to-dusk process imbued with sacred ritual—the hunting of a shark. But is it the animal’s flesh he seeks to consume, or its soul? With sublime music and a striking graphic sensibility, Zhou Qian’s vivid, hypnotic short film introduces a director to keep an eye on.