China Movies

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....

This documentary gives fascinating insights into the aspect of Chinese culture that evolved from the One Child policy. Young adults born during the...

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We...

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis,...

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

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,...

This documentary takes an economic perspective, painting a candid picture of how the Dutch chain store HEMA has had to adapt to modern times and...

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

“Are you a man, or a woman?” In a world built on binaries, this is the question every trans soul must learn to answer—again 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...

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)...

A young huntress with a hidden secret learns to accept her true self, while helping to defend her new animal companion. If they are not careful, the...

Into the Island is the first chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field...

Su has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where...

Livestreaming your life to a devoted audience is big business. What happens when the cameras are off?

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

An abridged history of motion pictures: In 1888 George Eastman registered the made up word “Kodak” as a trademark. In 1894 Jean...