1. Title: 我的摄影机不撒谎 = My Camera Doesn't Lie (Documentary) / Solveig Klassen and Katharina Schneider-Roos
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: A film about Chinese underground filmakers who were first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 to the present. It is also the first film that deals with the Chinese homosexual film scene. Includes interviews with Cui Zi'en, Emily Tang, Jia Zhangke, Ju Anqi, Li Yu, Liu Bingjian, Liu Hao, Wang Chao, Wang Quan'an, Wang Xiaoshuai, Wu Wenguang. and Zhang Yuan.
- (2003, 90 minutes)
2. Title: 夜上海 = Shanghai Dreams or Shanhai Nights (Documentary)/ Michelle Chen Miao
- Language Note: English narration, Chinese and English dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: Documentary film about a private club owner, an American actor, a migrant worker, and a taxi driver trying to pursue their dreams in today's Shanghai.
- (2001, 70 minutes)
3. Title: 任消遙 = Unknown Pleasures (Fiction) / Jia Zhangke
- Language Note: Chinese with English subtitles.
- Summary: This film focuses on two 19-year-old boys, children of laid-off government mine workers. They end up robbing a bank.
- (2002, 110 minutes)
Day 2 - October 9
4. Title: 舊約 = Old Testament (Fiction) / Cui Zi'en
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: This film has three parts: Poem 1991, Proverb 2001, and Chant 2011. It describes the lives of homosexuals in China from the past, present and future.
- (2001, 90 minutes)
- Warning: Nudity and sexual content. Viewer discretion advised.
5.Title: 盒子 = Box (Documentary) / Ying Weiwei
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: This documentary film describes two lesbians' simple and fragile lives. One of them, Fang, is a printer who was harassed and beaten by her father since she was a child. She hopes to have a cozy home with a loving partner. The other, Liang, was hurt and disappointed by men.
- (2001, 90 minutes)
- Warning: Nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.
6.Title: 今年夏天 = Fish and Elephant (Fiction) / Li Yu
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: Elephant trainer, Xiao Qun, has fallen in love with a new woman. Her mother can't understand her relationship and, meanwhile, introduces some new men to her. We learn about Xiao Qun's past in which her previous girlfriend was wanted for the murder of her father who had been raped by her father when she was very young. She solicits Xiao Qun's help to avoid the police only to be killed by policemen, in the end.
- (2000, 90 minutes)
- Warning: Nudity, sexual content. Viewer discretion advised.
7. Title: 上海男孩 = Snake Boy (Documentary) / Michelle Chen Miao
- Language Note: Chinese and English dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: A biographical documentary about Coco, a Chinese jazz singer in today's Shanghai. He's also gay.
- (2002, 60 minutes)
Day 3 - October 10
8. Title: 城鄉結合部 = Between City and Countryside (Documentary) / Zhang Zhanqing
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with Chinese subtitles.
- Summary: In today's China, many poor peasants have to leave their hometowns for the big cities to sustain their families, only to find low-wage jobs waiting for them. This documentary film shows us the life of Guan Chunqi, a struggling migrant, and his family, in Beijing.
- (2001, 50 minutes)
9. Title: 我不要你管 = Leave Me Alone (Documentary) / Hu Shu
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: The true story of three girls who migrate to the big city to seek their fortunes. The girls take jobs at a night club, beauty salon, and massage parlor rendering their "services" on the side while one of their boyfriends holds forth in their apartment. Note: The term for "call girl" in China is referred to as "Miss Sitting Stage".
- (2001, 70 minutes)
10. Title: 流浪北京 = Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (Documentary) / Wu Wenguang
- Language Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: A documentary based on five young artist's experiences in Beijing during the 1980s. After graduating college, they leave their officially assigned jobs and arrive in Beijing in search of their dreams.
- (1990, 90 minutes)
11. Title: 四海為家 = At Home in the World (Documentary)/ Wu Wenguang
- Language Note: Chinese, Italian, French, English dialog and English subtitles.
- Summary: A documentary based on five young artist's experiences in China, France, Italy,the U.S., and Austrialia: a five year follow-up to the documentary film, "Bumming in Beijing".
- (1995, 90 minutes)
12. Title: 哭泣的女人 = Crying Woman (Fiction) / Liu Bingjian
- Language: Note: Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: Wang Guixiang became a famous professional mourner for local funerals. She managed to save enough money to bribe the local prison director to have her emprisoned husband released. However, before she could initiate the bribe, her husband was killed during an attempted escape. Although she could not shed tears upon hearing this news, the very next day she cries profusely during a funeral for a businessman.
- (2002, 90 minutes)
- Warning: Nudity and sexual content. Viewer discretion advised.
13. Title: 達木天葬台 = Celestial Burial (Documentary)/ WengPulin
- Language Note: English narration, Tibetan and Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.
- Summary: Documentation of the Tibetan celestial burial in Damu Monastery.
- (2001, 150 minutes)
- Warning: Strong graphic content at the end. Viewer discretion advised.
