China Movies

J Fever, China’s greatest “rap poet”, reinvents the origin myth of fire, in an exquisite performance with Shanghai Philharmonic in...

An biography of Zhou Enlai through the Cultural Revolution.

A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.

Faced with climate change, many countries have embarked on the energy transition. Since the COP21 in 2015, which set demanding targets for reducing...

The story of a group of plateau oil rig workers and how their lives change when they move from the rural grasslands and into the city.

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, Stephane Hanssens and Evrard...

For the first time, a French director-journalist will join an official trip to the heart of one of the most secret regions in China: Xinjiang....

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been...

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...

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

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from Sichuan in...

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

Set in 1953, spies plan to set off a explosion on the National Day.

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser's efforts to document and present the reality of Tibet were considered a "political problem" by the Chinese Party-state...