China Movies

It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing rapidly. Disproportionate measures are taken...

Guangzhou, a.k.a. Canton, is southern China’s centuries-old trading port. Today the booming metropolis of 14 million is a mecca of mass...

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

They are four of the most successful businesswomen in China: Belonging to a generation who experienced the austerity of China's cultural revolution,...

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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

Undercover in Tibet reveals the regime of terror which dominates daily life and makes freedom of expression an impossibility. Tash meets victims of...

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

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

This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's...

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 Chinese government is sponsoring a national campaign on "equal" education. UNDER THE SAME SKY documents school children in the city as well as...