We Come as Friends (2015) Douban

We Come as Friends

director: 于贝尔·苏佩 actor: 乔治·克鲁尼 / 希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿

other title: 友谊 / 友谊：后殖民主义在南苏丹

Entente Cordiale intends to illustrate colonisation as a human phenomenon in an explicit manner as well as in a metaphoric sense without suggesting simplified accusations or political propositions. It will not be a historical film since colonisation as well as slave trade are still happening today - in a modified way, a more industrial, massive and more global fashion than a hundred years ago.

Crime and Punishment (2007) Douban

★ 8.2 (14 ratings) director: 赵亮

other title: 罪与罚

在中国北方一个小镇的派出所里，象中国的任何角落一样，警察每天都在代表政府行使着管理人民、维持社会安定的责任。
一个没有带营业许可证的收废品的老头在派出所内面对警察经受着尊严的考验。
一个经常报假警的精神病人，又一次报警说家里有一个死人。
一个不会说话的盗窃嫌疑人，经受了皮肉之苦，始终没有承认偷窃，由于交流障碍和证据不足，只好被警察无罪释放。
在调查一起持枪杀人案过程中，警察们偶然抓到三个偷木头的农民，在连夜的刑讯下，农民们供认不讳。因为春节快到了，做父亲的没有钱给孩子买礼物，便挺而走险做了小偷。
一年一度的老兵又要退役了。一个既无钱又无关系的老兵没有签上士官，在临行的前夜喝了很多酒，他向一名干部发泄着自己对军队的失望和对社会的不满！
人去床空，新兵还会再来，社会还是照常荒诞的继续。
法国南特三大洲电影节(The Festival of the 3 Continents)大奖

Plastic China (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB

Plastic China

★ 8.8 (28 ratings) director: Jiuliang Wang

other title: 塑料王国 / 塑料王國

2016 documentary film

Three Sisters (2012) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

三姊妹

★ 7.6 (31 ratings) director: 王兵

other title: 三姊妹 / 三姐妹 …

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 village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province.

Politician (2022)

Politician

director: 陈家坪 actor: 许志永

other title: 政治家

曾因在2013年推动官员财产公开、教育平权等多项中国公民运动而入狱4年的中国维权律师许志永，两年前和另一名维权律师丁家喜遭指控颠覆国家政权罪，被中国警方带走，6月17日召开庭前会议。旅美中国人权律师滕彪辗转取得中国独立纪录片导演陈家坪拍摄的许志永纪录片《政治家》，授权自由亚洲电台首发。滕彪律师17日接受自由亚洲电台专访，他表示许志永和丁家喜无罪，而是遭遇中国当局的政治迫害，希望透过这部片子让外界更关注许志永案、更关注中国维权律师和异议人士的处境，以及中国日益恶化的人权状况。

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Koyaanisqatsi

★ 8.5 (71 ratings) director: 高佛雷·雷吉奥 actor: Lou Dobbs / 泰德·科佩尔

other title: 코야니스카시 / Koyaanisqatsi - Uma Vida Fora de Equilíbrio …

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

And Yet The Books 2 (2021) Douban

★ 9.2 (221 ratings) director: 郝雨竹 / 杨骊珠 …

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

★ 8.9 (64 ratings) director: 叶甫根尼·阿芬尼夫斯基 actor: Bishop Agapit / Catherine Ashton …

other title: 凛冬烈火：乌克兰自由之战 / 凛冬烈火：乌克兰为自由而战 …

2015 film by Evgeny Afineevsky

没有太阳的日子 (1990) IMDb TMDB

没有太阳的日子

★ 8.8 (16 ratings) director: Kei Shu actor: Alfred Cheung / Hsiao-Hsien Hou …

Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact. Among his interviewees are: award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien; Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung, a witness to the massacre; actress Deanne Ip, whose national consciousness is fired by the event; as well as his own brothers, one who soon migrates from Hong Kong, and the other, already an Australian emigre. Their personal testimonies are pieced together into a mural of the Chinese people united in their horror and outrage.
—L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>

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The Gate of Heavenly Peace

★ 9.3 (101 ratings) director: Richard Gordon / Carma Hinton

other title: 天安门 / 天安門 (映画)

1995 film by Carma Hinton

Our Time, Our Story (2002) Douban

白鴿計劃

★ 8.2 (13 ratings) director: 萧菊贞 actor: 侯孝贤 / 张艾嘉

other title: 白鸽计划 / 白鴿計劃

Madame (2010) IMDb TMDB Douban

姑奶奶

★ 9.0 (138 ratings) director: 邱炯炯 actor: 樊其辉

other title: 姑奶奶

Qiu Jiongjiong's stark black-and-white series of interviews with transsexual cabaret singer Madame Bi Langda. Madame Bi's recollections of past experiences explicitly touch on how she performs her way through life, whether interacting with friends, lovers or her audience. More than a document of the increasingly complicated gender identity politics in China, it's also a poignant testimony of a life dedicated to articulating the aesthetics of living.

In Character (2018) IMDb TMDB Douban

入戏

★ 7.7 (27 ratings) director: 董雪莹 actor: 叶京 / 段凯钟 …

other title: 入戏

Originally as a behind the scene documentary of Ye Jing’s film Songs of the Youth 1969. Director Ye Jing isolates 13 young people in a disused firearms factory, then dresses them in Cultural Revolution-era clothing and has them listen to Cultural Revolution-era music day in and day out as a kind of anthropological experiment.

Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020) TMDB Douban

Cosmos: Possible Worlds Season 1 part of TV Series: Cosmos: Possible Worlds

★ 9.2 (25 ratings) director: 安·德鲁扬 / 布兰农·布拉加 actor: 尼尔·德格拉塞·泰森

《宇宙时空之旅：未知世界》（Cosmos：Possible Worlds）
在广阔无垠的时空中，有无数个尚待我们探索的世界，和等待我们诉说的故事。本季节目要带我们探索逝去和未来的世界。并带观众认识勇于探索这一切的人。

Cop Shop 2 (2011) IMDb TMDB Douban

差馆Ⅱ

★ 8.5 (64 ratings) director: 周浩

other title: 差馆Ⅱ / 差馆2

第二年（2011）春运，我们一如既往回到这个派出所……
除了那几位老“差人”，上一部片中的“新疆人”、“来广州混的少年”、“忏悔的青年”……没有一位再次出现。
派出所，普通人一生也难得进去一次，可也有人一个春运要进去好几次。故事就从一些总要在这进进出出的人说起……
影片似乎仍然是没有重点，结构松散，主题混沌。
其实，人本身就是一矛盾体，由人组成的社会注定也是如此。

Cop Shop (2010) IMDb TMDB Douban

差馆

★ 8.5 (131 ratings) director: 周浩 / 郑晓蕾

other title: 差馆 / 记录者之差馆

广州火车站站前派出所，一个万象生的地方，在这里你能看到社会的各个折射面。

三和人才市场 中国日结1500日元的年轻人们 (2018) TMDB Douban

三和人材市場～中国・日給1500円の若者たち～

★ 8.4 (437 ratings) director: NHK actor: 远藤宪一

中国深圳郊外的龙华新区，有一处大型职业介绍所“三和人才市场”。
周围小巷内，残破建筑物林立，廉价网吧、旅馆、杂货店等百余家店铺鳞次栉比。众多年轻人或在网吧内瞌睡，或露宿街头。
本片在绚丽奢华的中国硅谷-深圳，倾听从社会底层支撑着制造业大国的人们的心声，关注在希望和绝望之间挣扎的年轻打工者们的现实。(kamonka)

Intention (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban

그날, 바다

★ 9.0 (142 ratings) director: 金智永 actor: 郑雨盛

other title: 那天，大海 / 그날, 바다 …

2018 South Korean documentary film

Along the Railway (2000) IMDb TMDB Douban

铁路沿线

★ 8.6 (56 ratings) director: Du Haibin

other title: 铁路沿线

This important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers who eke out a living, begging, foraging, stealing and sleeping rough near the Baoji railway station in Shaanxi.

历代经济变革得失 (2011) Douban

director: 腾讯微讲堂 actor: 吴晓波

吴晓波系列讲课之历代经济变革得失