DVD Distribution - Region: China

Director：Ai Xiaoming
Subject：Health / Human rights / Legal system
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 105 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

Care and Love draws its inspiration from Investigation of AIDS in Xingtai, an article by Wang Keqin, senior China Economic Times journalist. The documentary tells the story of Liu Xianhong, a villager who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion during childbirth, and how she publicized her story, filed a lawsuit with her 8-year-old son against the hospital, and eventually received compensation. The bitter experiences of several families, and the collective effort by people living with HIV to defend their rights, resulted in the "Care Group".

The Epic of Central Plains C002

Director：Ai Xiaoming
Subject：Health / Human rights / Legal system
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2006 / 146 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Poverty in Henan Province led many people to sell blood. During the blood transfusion, many innocent people were infected with HIV. The film reveals the lives of the AIDS patients and contrasts the situation between the corrupted officials and the courageous villagers. The Epic of the Central Plains is part of the series of Caring and Compassion that tells the story of AIDS and love in the rural area in Henan.

The Folk Song on the Plain C003

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Gender / Rural life / Family
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2001 / 70 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Luo Xiaojia was abducted when she was seventeen and was trafficked from Yunnan to Shandong province. Later, she was forced to marry a local peasant. The film records her family life in Shandong, her longing for her distant hometown and her perspectives on life. After living in Shandong for ten years, she was finally permitted to go back to see her mother. When she left, her mother sang folk songs for her.

Garden in Heaven C004

Director：Ai Xiaoming, Hu Jie
Subject：Gender / Human rights / Legal system
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2005 / 140 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English Subtitles

Huang Jing, a teacher in Hunan Province, was killed by her boyfriend who attempted to rape her. This film captures the changes in China between 2003 and 2005, before and after an injunction to respect and protect human rights was written into the Constitution. The documentary illustrates awareness of human rights, women's struggle against judicial corruption, and women taking action to fight against domestic violence. By highlighting the effort made by women at the grass roots level, the documentary records the cultural debates between women and the law, and the impact of their campaigns on policy makers. The documentary serves as a forum for presenting the crime of rape in different perspectives while promoting debate on the possibilities of civil society activism in China.

In Search of Lin Zhou’s Soul C005

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Cultural revolution / Religion / Gender
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2004 / 100 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English Subtitles

This film traces an unfortunate story that happened forty years ago. Lin Zhou, a student of Beijing University, grew from a pure, loyal follower into a valiant fighter against the Red Terror. She was imprisoned for eight years and then killed. She left thousands of words written in her own blood to expose the absurdity and cruelty of those days.

The Lost Buddha C006

Director：Tian Bo
Subject：History / Culture / Rural life
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 96 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

The film records the daily life of four generations of a Xianbei family in northern Shaanxi descended from clan lords. Integrated with the Han majority, they live a simple life. The documentary reflects their religious faith and spiritual world and their surroundings. On the edge of modernity, when they face frustration, hardship and loss, they interpret life in a unique way. Their attachment to the soil, religious worship and commitment to destiny all tell us a story about deep, loyal and truthful sentiments.

Pediatrics Department C007

Director：Wang Hao
Subject：Health / Poverty
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2006 / 104 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

This documentary tells what happened in the Pediatrics Department in Ningguo People's hospital in Anhui province. This is the biggest and best local hospital, treating sixty percent of the patients of the region. The pediatrics department is one of its busiest units. But after private Huatai hospital opened in Sep, 2004, the number of inpatients of this department gradually decreased, which directly affected the doctors' income. Director Chen was the core of this department, intelligent and capable and able to lead a clannish team. Being short handed, the doctors even have to work after the night shift. The doctors were exhausted, but since Chen was also overworked, they obeyed without complaint.

They were only tired of being doctors. Facing fierce competition, unsound professional surroundings and inept executives, the doctors were worried and anxious, but nobody left. Led by Chen, they began to fight a tiresome war in which there would be no winner.

Red Arts C008

Director：Hu Jie, Ai Xiaoming
Subject：Cultural revolution / Arts
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 70 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Red Art reflects the development of poster art during the Cultural Revolution, which started in 1966, and how posters were used as propaganda. The film contains interviews with former painters, Red Guards, contemporary researchers and collectors at home and abroad who talk about the meaning of the posters.

Red Art follows "Painting for the Revolution: Peasants Painters in Hu County, which documents how folk art was transformed by the political campaigns, and records the artists' memory of this unusual period of history.

Red Art is a homonym in Chinese word "Red Guard", which implies a metaphorical significance. As Mao's poems usually convey the impression of "sunset as blood-red", the title summarizes Mao's image of the revolution and the cost that people and art had to pay.

Remote Mountain C009

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Labour / Industry
Price: HKD750.00
China / 1995 / 40 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

In the mountains of China's Qinghai province, there are countless small coal mines. The miners are all rural people from nearby and their bodies are covered in coal dust from the thirty dan of coal they must dig out each day to earn five hundred dollars a month. The film records how they labor and the sounds of their heavy breathing and what they see working far underground, while cherishing the dreams of a better life we all have.

Silent Nu River C010

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Environmental protection / Race / Religion
Price: HKD750.00
China / 2006 / 40 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

A cascade of thirteen hydroelectric dams is poised to be built along the Nu River. The first one is set on Songta Village in Tibet. The film opens with a caravan starting out from Songta to another dam site on the ancient Tea Horse Route along the river. The camera captures the vegetation on the river valley, the people, their lifestyle, the history and destruction that is soon to come.

Tai Shi Village C011

Director：Ai Xiaoming
Subject：Human rights / Economic development / Election system
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2006 / 114 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Tai Shi Village follows the famous events when villagers of Tai Shi, in suburban Guangzhou, tried to remove the appointed local officials. The villagers suspected that their land was illegally taken away by the local authorities. Shot under dangerous conditions, the film reflects vividly the growing number of serious conflicts in rural China.

Though I am Gone C012

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Cultural revolution / Family
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2006 / 68 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

Bian Zhongyun, a communist party member and the vice-principal of a secondary school was tortured to death on August 5th, 1966. She was believed to be the first victim among the teachers killed at the hands of their students during the "Red August" of 1966 as the Cultural Revolution began in mainland China. The film depicts the event and demonstrates how the family members and colleagues of Bian experienced the terror.

Vagina Monologues C013

Director：Ai Xiaoming, Song Sufeng
Subject：Gender / Arts
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2004 / 120 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Vagina Monologues was written by American writer Eve Ensler. She interviewed more than two hundred women and the play is made up monologues of the interviewees. Among them, are the women in Bosnia who were subjected to mass rape. In 2004, this play was performed at the "Forum on Gender Education" organized by Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.

Woman Matchmaker C015

Director：Hu Jie
Subject：Gender / Rural life / Custom
Price: HKD750.00
China / 1995 / 48 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

In order to find a discerning woman matchmaker, the director met more than ten of them and finally chose this one. He followed her around in the villages and captured the joy and suffering of rural life. The film explores the conflict between tradition and modern life.

Youth’s Cemetery C016

Director：Zhang Ke
Subject：Cultural revolution
Price: HKD750.00
China / 2005 / 23 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

An unusual and mysterious cemetery lies in Sha Ping Park in Chongqing. In 1967, the Cultural Revolution devastated China. Chongqing has the most violent struggle in the country and thousands of people died. Numerous youths were persuaded to fight against each other. What the violence left was this cemetery, where about four hundred peoples were buried, and endless misery.

Sanlidong C018

Director：Lin Xin
Subject：History / Industry
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2006 / 172 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

In 1955, more than three hundred enthusiastic Shanghai youths with the mission of supporting Northwest China construction arrived at Sanlidong coal mine in Tongchuan. Fifty years later, most of them have passed away. The film consists of fifteen fragments, recording the lives of retired miners, the deceased and the dissipated years. The director memorialises the tenacity and dignity of life through filming his father's generation: the portrait of coal miners.

The 15 miners are: Qi Guoqi (deceased), Gu Longxiang, Shen Longgen, Wang Zhengxiang, Yao Hongchang, Ge Dengfa, Zhang Baisheng, Lu Rongchu, Zhou Shougen, Luo Shijun, Ding Fuzhen, Tong Guang, Gao Zhangshun, Chen Yixiang, Zhu Yongsheng (deceased).

Senior Year C019

Director：Zhou Hao
Subject：Education in China / Personal growth
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2005 / 95 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

Seventy eight high school students of No. 1 High School of Wuping County, Fujian Province had only one chance to get into university: pass the annual university entrance exam. The pressure to succeed was extremely intense. Under their teachers' supervision, students recited math formulas and Communist propaganda slogans day and night. The students strive for personal freedom while preparing for their exams, in an educational system that aimed at mass producing result-oriented youth.

The 29-year-old High School Student C020

Director：Zhang Zhong
Subject：Education in China / Personal growth
Price: HKD750.00
China / 2007 / 30 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitle

In 2007, Lao Yang was 29 years old and still in grade 11. His goal was studying art in university. He continued to take the exams despite repeated failures and became the most experienced repeater in his school. He worked as a teaching assistant in an art school to support himself. Lao Yang's case was typical and reflected the hardship millions of students face in China.

We are the … of Communism C021

Director：Cui Zien
Subject：Education in China / Labour
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 94 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

The Yuanhai school for migrant's children was suddenly closed for no reason. Students were forced to leave the school. Those who continued to study had classes in old factory buildings. When winter came, students in their first and second years went to study in a small van. The older ones went to the teacher's small flat to have lessons. In the cold weather, the children still gathered happily together and school was like heaven to them.

DVD Distribution - Region: China

Care and Love C001

The Epic of Central Plains C002

The Folk Song on the Plain C003

Garden in Heaven C004

In Search of Lin Zhou’s Soul C005

The Lost Buddha C006

Pediatrics Department C007

Red Arts C008

Remote Mountain C009

Silent Nu River C010

Tai Shi Village C011

Though I am Gone C012

Vagina Monologues C013

Woman Matchmaker C015

Youth’s Cemetery C016

Sanlidong C018

Senior Year C019

The 29-year-old High School Student C020

We are the … of Communism C021

YinMa Ferry C024

The 7th Medical Ward C025

Bingai C026

Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic C027

Future Begins from Now C028

Summer of Yueming C029

Two Seasons C030

University City Savages C031