China Movies

Filmmaker and new media artist Tong Xie’s debut short probes the unease, confusion, and obsession experienced by the body as it crosses the...

After being suddenly struck with amnesia, an old man is brought to a dilapidated house and ordered to harvest corn by a man who claims to be his son.

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....

An inside look at China working towards the goal of becoming a superpower by the year 2000 via education as the key to modernization. Filmed in...

A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic...

Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between...

A Rebel Without a Cause for a new generation, and one of the most defiant children to ever grace the big screen, 14-year-old Hai is a teenage terror,...

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.

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

Taiwan is at the heart of a struggle between two nuclear powers – China and the United States - and there are fears it will become the next...

In a mountainous region of Sichuan, best known for pandas and earthquakes, there are no roads, no cars, no buses. But there is … a train. This...

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,...

Presented by the British Museum this is the story of the most famous army in the world. A triumph of early mass production and craftmanship, they...

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

This tells events of the 26th year of the Ganlu era, during which the Emperor Long Aotian of the Ye Dynasty fell seriously ill. Suddenly, Lu Sha, the...