Zi'en Cui Movies

Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo...

After her adopted son, Er Dong (Li Jun Bai), joins a gang, a single mother in rural China sends him to a Christian school, hoping he'll shape up. Er...

A man discovers a stranger by the roadside, naked and claiming to be from Mars.

This documentary reviews and summarises the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past three decades in China. We interviewed thirty...

When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their...

Brotherly love goes too far when Feng gets his twin sister pregnant while both of them are still in high school, creating a problem that's bigger...

A philosophical essay written in visuals. The pioneer in Chinese queer cinema, Cui Zi’en, talks about carnal instinct from a philosophical...

Xiao Bo lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving. He kneels at the deathbed of his father who has become a...

A Christian virgin tries to save gay male prostitutes when his brother becomes one.

A young man wandering naked along a seemingly endless country road claims that he's an alien. So do the three other young men (also naked) who join...

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary black market for pirated DVDs in Beijing, Pirated Copy is a character-driven drama about the passion two...

The Yuanhai Migrants Children’s School, which serves children of migrant laborers in Beijing, is shut down by city officials for reasons never...

This three-part film explores homosexuality in communist China.

A film about queer and religion

A documentary pastiche about living in contemporary China, constituted by images of immigrant workers’ on-street KTV singing; open-air...

Shanghai was once called the "Paris of the East," but changes come with time and social tumult. Now, amid crumbling buildings, crushing poverty and...

Shitou is Nuonuo’s girl friend. They have always loved each other. Nuonuo is the little sister of Mingming, who also fell in love with Shitou...

A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is...

Two brothers are the focus of this film. The older brother has a mental disability and the younger brother has AIDS. Since their parents abandoned...