China Movies

Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refuge in Shanghai, like 30,000 other people. He...

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

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, where shadow puppetry began over 2000 years ago....

Miao Miao, her brother Xiaolong and Xin Liao are some of the happy kids who live in the Sun Villages created by Mrs. Zhang Shuqin. But in reality...

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

In recent years, Chinese investment has poured into Southeast Europe, offering access to desperately-needed development financing. But at what cost?...

Imagine buying the works of true masters, like Renoir, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Rembrant, Matisse and Raphael for just thirty US dollars! Welcome to the...

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...

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was from. Due to the high cost of construction,...

September 2019. China inaugurates the largest airport terminal in the world, which covers 700,000 m2, the equivalent of 98 football pitches. Built in...

Take a trip to the amazing Chinese capital without leaving your own home. Not content with a tourist-only view of Beijing, this documentary hangs...

Documentation of a journey along the Great Wall of China to the Ku-Pei-Kuo pass fortress.

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

The documentary project follows the young students of a small daoist kung fu school in Wudang, China. The documentary focuses on their daily life and...

“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...

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel...

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

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore...

A Thai intelligence officer infiltrates the enemy's military forces of Chiang Riang by assuming the identity of a murdered colonel who was also a...