Time a Journey Through Thousands of Years (2024)
Directed by Jens Monath. A ZDF TerraX production, in coproduction with China Media Group (CMG)/CCTV-9 channel, Arte and ZDF Studio. 2×60 mins.
Executive producer: Jia Zhao (Off the Fence & MUYI FILM)
Pratopia (2025)
Directed by Sean Ali Wang.
In Prato, Italy’s textile capital with the highest proportion of Chinese population in Europe, the destinies of a second-generation Wenzhou pianist, a Pakistani cricket captain and factory owner, and a local Italian activist mirror the industry’s rise and fall, weaving together the capitalistic imprints of the past, present, and future
Whispers in May (2025)
Directed by Dongnan Chen.
Qinghua, a Yi ethnic teen, sets out on a road trip with her two besties to find a skirt for the menarche rite of passage. Supported by First Documentary Lab 2022 (China) / Freshpitch award 2022 (China) /Tokyodocs pitch award 2023 (Japan) / DMZ pitch award 2023 (S. Korea) /IDFA Bertha Fund […]
An Asian Ghost Story (2023)
Directed by Bo Wang. Producer: Jane Ruoyao Yao. Executive Producer: Jia Zhao. New Vision award at New:Vision competition of CPH-DOX 2023.
Flower Chasers (2023)
A short documentary by Zhiqi Pan.
Following the seasons as flowers bloom across China, a family of beekeepers try to sustain their traditional lifestyle in the face of a global ecological crisis. Sheffield Docfest 2023, international short competition. In association with EMERGENCE MAGAZINE X IF/THEN SHORTS – FIELD OF VISION, USA
KARATARA – ‘Place of Deep Shadows’ (2025)
A feature hybrid film by Teboho Edkins.
Karatara – ‘Place of Deep Shadows’, is a ghost film, in which the ghosts, both real and imagined, haunt the lives of a racially mixed race community in a small town in post-apartheid South Africa. Supported by Netherlands Film Fund (Thuthuka theme). In coproduction with
FLYING COWS (2025)
Directors: Vahagn Khachatryan, Aren Malakyan. In the chaos caused by the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a cow gives birth to a baby calf. Following their journey with cow dealers from Armenia through Iran to Irak, the film observes a variety of human landscapes on these ever shifiting borders, through the gaze of nature. Supported by Sundance […]
13 years Dreaming the Dreams of the Red Chamber (2022)
Directed and produced by Jia Zhao. Commissioned by China Media Group (CMG)
DETOUR (2023)
A short documentary film by Tushar Madhav. An Indian painter and a Japanese curator encounter each other during their migrations between the forest and the city. Trapped in crossing, while the painter slips into depression and takes the path of suicide, the curator pursues his life away from modern civilization inside a forest. A […]
THE OXYGENE STORY (2023)
A hybrid short film by Abhay Kumar. Supported by the Netherlands Film Fund. Logline: An AI program makes a film about Jean Michelle Jarre’s 1976 album ‘Oxygene’. However through an error of linking patterns, the program mixes the music documentary with the unfolding oxygen crisis in India.
SINGING FOR SILENCE (2024)
A feature documentary by Yixin Zhang.
In 2018, two artists encountered a group of non-hearing kids in the remote village of Miao-minority region in China, and start a chorus with them. Will singing change their fate?
THE VAGRANT MASTER (2023)
A feature documentary film by Weichao Xu, Weixi Chen.
A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE 石史诗 (2021)
A piece of white marble stone mined in Greece takes us on its Odyssey journey along the global consumption driven by the Chinese domestic market to investigate the current role of China as the “world buyer”. Director: Sean Ali Wang. In co-production with ARTE G.E.I.E Producers: Jia Zhao […]
I AM SO SORRY (2021)
Director: Zhao Liang. In the context of contemporary high-tech and totalitarianism, Pandora’s Box presents the predicament of global warming in terms of humanity’s choices about nuclear energy. Producers: ZHAO’S IMAGE PRODUCTION LIMITED, LES FILMS D’ICI. Co-producers: Ruby Chen, Jia Zhao
ADAMIANI – Inori no tani (2022)
A feature documentary by Hirotoshi Takeoka. Krakow International Film Festival ( International competition, FIPRESCI award).
The Kists are Georgian Chechens who live in the Pankisi Gorge. The local men are known for their bravery but also infamous for being ‘terrorists’. The documentary is a multi-threaded story of inhabitants of a little known place in the Caucasus. […]
TIDYING UP WUHAN (2021)
A short film by Yijun ZHOU; Co-director: Yue WU.
In the aftermath of COVID-19, Xi Ka (29), a “Chinese Marie Kondo” unexpectedly dives into lives of grieving families in Wuhan.
BEE TOGETHER (2023)
A young beekeeper in China and his bees take us on a journey cross seasons and places, chasing nectars and dreams. In co-production with Tae Yamamoto (Japan). In collaboration with NHK Japan.
Director: Zhiqi Pan
DREAM OF THE SUPERBRIDGE 江桥梦 (2023)
In Wuhan, China, another mega-bridge across the Yangtze River is in construction. The story of Ma Wenjun, a former migrant worker who developed himself into an engineer. The story reflects that of many Chinese and their fate within an institutionalized system where no one can escape.
Director: Wang Yang
SMOG TOWN (2019)
China’s pollution crisis inspires an environmental regulator to write novels that go viral. We follow his journey. IDFA 2019 First Appearance Competition. Supported by IDFA Bertha Fund and NFF+IBF fund. https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/4af1d3c0-52f6-4044-8c39-7086f2138a4b/smog-director/idfa-bertha-fund
Director: Meng Han. In co-production with Vincent Du.
FOUR JOURNEYS (2021)
Director: Louis Hothot Producer: Pieter van Huystee. Coproducer: Ruby Chen. Associate producer: Jia Zhao
I was illegal because of China’s One Child Policy. After living in Holland for five years, I travel back home to revisit my illegal childhood and the guilt I feel towards my parents who paid such an expensive price for my delivery. While […]