Chinese Shadows Movies
- 2023
Youth (Spring)
Youth (Spring)6.72023HD
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 pri...
- 2018
Bitter Money
Bitter Money5.82018HD
In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportun...
- 2012
11 Flowers
11 Flowers6.82012HD
A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand...
- 2016
Ta'ang
Ta'ang5.62016HD
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have hist...
- 2018
Chinese Portrait
Chinese Portrait6.92018HD
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. Ped...
- 2012
Three Sisters
Three Sisters7.42012HD
The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small vill...
- 2022
Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish
Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish4.52022HD
“Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he starts to talk about...
- 2019
Breathless Animals
Breathless Animals02019HD
"What did you dream about and what was your daily life as a teenager?” An older woman recalls her youthful memories in China during the 1970’s while u...
- 2008
My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts
My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts02008HD
The elderly are interviewed on the memories they have on the Japanese soldiers who occupied China in the late ‘30s. Some remembered, some didn’t, but...
- 2021
Out of This World
Out of This World52021HD
When a pandemic breaks out, Li You is given a long vacation while Xiao Xiao is forced to remain in a city that she does not know well. A strange atmos...
- 2009
Wild Grass
Wild Grass02009HD
Since the start of the 1990s, a period during which the Chinese government criticised the Western media for biased reporting, Chinese orphanages have...
- 2008
The Love of Mr. An
The Love of Mr. An82008HD
Mr. An is almost 90 years old. He loves life, dance and the smiling young Xiao Wei, his daily life companion. His wife, secluded at home, is quite unh...