SARS in Beijing

Between April and June 2003, the brutal SARS epidemic had a deep impact on Chinese people's lives, especially in Beijing. Flocks of migrant labourers who had come to the capital to find work started straggling back to th

Uncle Kurban Visits Beijing

Kurban, a farmer from Hotan, visits Beijing.

The Strangers in Beijing

A group of young people from all corners of the country work in a Beijing publishing press. They all live in the same shabby apartment block, where their lives intertwine.

Lost in Beijing

Hee-jin follows her boyfriend Sun-il to Beijing for a job interview. There she finds herself not only lost in Beijing, but in life. A stranger steps in to help her find her way.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremony

Beijing 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony

The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest. It began at 8:00 p.m. China Standard Time (UTC+8) on August 8, 2008, as 8 is considered to be a lucky num

Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing

Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by Giovanna Casolla, Audrey Stottler, and Sharon Sweet alternating as Princess Turand

Autumn in Beijing

I love Beijing Tiananmen

Uyghurs in Beijing

New Beijing: Reinventing a City

As China emerges as the new economic powerhouse of the 21-century, no one can disrupt the biggest construction boom in the world's history. We marvel at the Beijing's bright new face as international architects create ne

in Blue Note Beijing

Beijing Besieged by Waste

Photographer Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, fearlessly documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption through poignant observational visits with the scavengers who live and work in the dumps. While

7 Days in Beijing

An unfinished and unreleased documentary about the historic 1975 meeting between Mao Zedong and Kukrit Pramoj, which normalized relations between China and Thailand.

The Man Who Defied Beijing

A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding demo

Beijing's Cards

Soviet documentary on Beijing's anti-Vietnam policies before the 1979 border war

Nowhere to Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing

Widowed at 28, Tibetan farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law and refuses to marry his other son. When Zanta’s in-laws won't let her seven-year-old go to school, she flees to Beijing to become a street vendor.

Bar-Belgrade via Beijing

On a train, various group of people interact with each other during one night.

Beijing 2022 Olympics Closing Ceremony

On February 20, 2022, the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

One Day in Beijing

The camera gazes at the crowd in Tiananmen Square. Accompanied by the music of Qigong exercises, the lives passing to and fro seem imbued with an immense weight.