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see all genres ›While still subject to strict governmental control over indigenous and foreign films exhibited at home, China's film industry is nonetheless one of the world's largest and most successful. In recent years, new generations of talent raised in a somewhat more liberal, quasi-capitalist atmosphere have pushed the envelope, often winning acclaim abroad even when censors consider their efforts too hot for fellow countrymen.
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Master of the Flying Guillotine
The legendary Jimmy Wang Yu stars as the one armed boxer, a martial arts expert, who is targeted by the blind master of the flying guillotine, who has vowed revenge for the deaths of his two disciples. The MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE combines eye-popping visuals,...Watch Movie
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Kaili Blues
An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, KAILI BLUES heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother's wish and sets off on a...Watch Movie
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Beijing Taxi
A feature-length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China undergoing a profound transformation. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values. The three...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Black Sun
An uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by critics as one of the most disturbing films ever released, BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE is...Watch Movie
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Mardi Gras: Made in China
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, this film follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival (where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity) to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China (where teenage girls live...Watch Movie
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The Yellow Bank
Capturing the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, THE YELLOW BANK takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki, who lived and worked in Shanghai nine years earlier, uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way...Watch Movie
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Up the Yangtze
In China, it is simply known as "the River." But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it) is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous,...Watch Movie
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Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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Scrap Odyssey
SCRAP ODYSSEY's title (and Richard Strauss theme) refer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. But this odyssey is distinctly down-to-earth. Polish documentarians Paweł Ferdek and Łukasz Gutt offer an arresting snapshot of the shifting plates of global trade by focusing on one Kyrgyz truck...Watch Movie
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24 City
A masterful film from Jia Zhangke, the renowned director of STILL LIFE, 24 CITY chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs...Watch Movie
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Getting Home
In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a...Watch Movie
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China in Three Words
Author Yu Hua is one of the only "honest writers to survive in China," Ian Johnson recently wrote. This makes him an inspiration. This short documentary takes its cue from an interview with Yu Hua about his book "China in Ten Words," focusing on words common in the Chinese...Watch Movie
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11 Flowers
One of China's foremost directors, Wang Xiaoshuai has created a moving coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When...Watch Movie
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People's Park
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, PEOPLE'S PARK is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. PEOPLE'S PARK was produced at Harvard's groundbreaking Sensory Ethnography Lab,...Watch Movie
