China Movies

Cultural documentary featuring a Chinese folk dance performance held in the courtyard of Auguste François's house in Yunnanfu, present-day...

The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached...

My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to...

"Beethoven in Beijing" starts with a forgotten moment in history —the first American orchestra's visit to communist China. The Philadelphia...

Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to...

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments....

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forbidden City and Great Wall are followed by...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....

Pisces is an art film which explores ritual, identity, and transformation, drawing from Lovecraftian mythos, Chinese Folk ritual, Five Elemental...

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

This film offers us a juxtaposed journey of two priests: Father Van Ban, a Vietnamese priest from the parish of Thy Hu in the Hé region, who...

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

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...

The animation tells the story of a small, innocent bunny who, despite his kindness and curiosity, faces hidden dangers and sinister forces around him.

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom...