China Movies

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed nearly 300 schoolchildren. The students were...

My childhood memories carry two important symbols, a large magnet that I pulled around behind me and a dead friend.

With a unique perspective of the accompanying cameraman of Premier Zhou Enlai, the film tactfully tells the story that Premier Zhou went to the old...

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...

A report on the demographic impact of China’s one-child policy.

The 30-year-old Xiao Ma is the lead guitarist of the "cold avoidance" band. On the stage, he is full of energy, cool and heroic, and invincible; in...

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

Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality...

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....

A young french man discovers a letter written in mandarin in an antique shop in France. After having it translated, he becomes captivated by its...

The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.

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,...

A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships...

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

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

A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...