China Movies

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)...

Lao Zha’s film examines rural life in Haiyuan County, in Ningxia Province. Unlike the rapidly globalizing urban centres, here life remains...

“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...

Six students from 3 Countries, USA, India and China are moving to College. They soon find themselves in a global competition and it narrows down to:...

In late October 2022, a developed city splited into two realities. Inside a sealed compound, children run, shout, and play as if the world is small...

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

When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, it engineered a massive propaganda effort to win over the people's hearts and minds. MAKING MAO...

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...

Women in China is a timely two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically -oriented Chinese society. By visiting four...

It has been forty years since the Sanmen Gorge project, a great dam high across the Yellow River at Sanmen Gorge, was completed. It's construction...

Migrant workers, factory bosses and nightclub dancers try to carve out a slice of the pie in the city the dollar store built. But China is changing....