Chinese Shadows Movies

  • 2023
    Youth (Spring)

    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...

    Youth (Spring)
  • 2018
    Chinese Portrait

    Chinese Portrait

    Chinese Portrait

    6.92018HD

    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....

    Chinese Portrait
  • 2012
    11 Flowers

    11 Flowers

    11 Flowers

    6.82012HD

    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...

    11 Flowers
  • 2018
    Bitter Money

    Bitter Money

    Bitter Money

    5.82018HD

    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...

    Bitter Money
  • 2012
    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters

    7.42012HD

    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...

    Three Sisters
  • 2016
    Ta'ang

    Ta'ang

    Ta'ang

    5.62016HD

    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...

    Ta'ang
  • 2019
    Breathless Animals

    Breathless Animals

    Breathless Animals

    02019HD

    "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...

    Breathless Animals
  • 2008
    The Love of Mr. An

    The Love of Mr. An

    The Love of Mr. An

    82008HD

    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...

    The Love of Mr. An
  • 2022
    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

    4.52022HD

    “Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he...

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish
  • 2021
    Out of This World

    Out of This World

    Out of This World

    52021HD

    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...

    Out of This World
  • 2008
    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts

    02008HD

    The elderly are interviewed on the memories they have on the Japanese soldiers who occupied China in the late ‘30s. Some remembered, some...

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts
  • 2009
    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass

    02009HD

    Since the start of the 1990s, a period during which the Chinese government criticised the Western media for biased reporting, Chinese orphanages have...

    Wild Grass