Shao Mingxiang and her husband are the last fishermen on the Qiantang River, whose lives are changing rapidly during China's massive urbanization. After a changed policy, the house on which they spent all their savings and in which they prepared for their son's marriage is defined as non-permitted construction and is facing demolition. At the point of retirement, they are fighting not only for their home but also for justice.
The documentary tells the story of the joys and sorrows of Aunt Wu, a 1990s laid-off worker in a state-owned factory and a seller of Shallot Stuffed Pancakes, under the impact of the “Internet Celebrity Effect”, and shows her struggles, embarrassment, and confusion in the wave of digital economy.
The century-old Huafeng Paper Mill, one of the largest paper mills in China, starts the process of demolition and relocation. The documentary depicts the collective memory of several generations and shows a microcosm of industrial civilization of China.
Zheng Yungen is a taxi dirver, desperate to save his daughter's life. Although his daughter has been terribly injured in a traffic accident, and even though the doctors have stopped treatment, the father fights to bring his daughter back from the brink of death.
Xu Luwen is a high school student who wants to be an actress, just like her deceased mother. However, her father strongly opposes her dream. Xu Lunwen fights against her father. Will she find her way of pursuing her dream while reconciling with her father?
Yi Tong, a teenager who is adopted as an embryo and raised by her biological mother in 2064. In order to help her mother win the highest prize in parental assessment, she tries very hard to excel in school, ignoring her own interests and curiosities.
Using an anthropomorphic approach, this TV prose tells the story of a water drop's life, from its birth in the sea, through its life floating in the sky, and finally meeting Hangzhou and falling in love at first sight.
The experimental film shows the daily life and growth trajectory of ordinary Chinese children in a plastic foam box of 1 by 1 square meter, describing the self-limitations which results from the shackles of an overwhelming family affection.
80-year-old Wang Youqing has a dream of singing Shaoxing Opera on stages. Although she has loved the opera and has been eager to learn and inherit Shaoxing opera since she was a child, she was unable to do so because of poverty. She says: "I am singing in my dreams." Will her dream finally come true?
This documentary focuses on three ordinary people's stories in Hangzhou in order to see how Buddhism and Taoism, the Chinese traditional cultures and thoughts, influence theirlives.
In his eighties, retired high school teacher Wu Yun voluntarily collects and documents Intangible Cultural Heritage. Driven by a strong sense of mission to protect Chinese traditional culture, he races against time.
In 2300, AI technology takes over many occupations. As a company technician, Pan proposes to use AI technology to replace poets but fails. In order to find the answer, he then uses AI technology to travel to ancient times and to experience the outstanding poets' lives.
It is natural that people vary in a similar manner from a grain flying in the air, a pebble lying on the ground, an incessantly hustling city or a stagnant entity. A vast world and trivial details. The history of existence and acquaintance, bridges that connect the world, streets with no trace of people, construction and dissolution, remaining and disappearance.