The River in Me

大河唱

Length: 98 min

Release Date: 2019-06-18

Director: Ke Yongquan, Yang Zhichun, He Yuan

Produced by: Lantern Film, Sky Film, Cforce Pictures, etc.   

Synopsis: The River in Me is a beautiful music documentary portraying the musical adventures and life struggles of five artists in rural northwest China: A folk rock performer, Su Yang, who wants to sing old rural ballads into the hearts of modern people; a storyteller who still wants to find someone in his sixties; a "flower（a folk song created and shared by Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Baoan, Sarah, Tu, Yugu and Mongolian nationalities in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia provinces in Northwest China.）" singer who enjoys singing love songs but is always teased by his fellow villagers; a Qin opera troupe leader who worries about finding actors; and a shadow play group leader who laments "shadow play is coming to an end" all day long... They compose music with soil and write words about fate. Life is played in a loop, but who says it can't be an exciting rock and roll? Music goes on and life goes on as well.

The Eve of Tomorrow

明天之前

Length: 50 min, 4 episodes

Release Date: 2019-06-13

Director: Joshua Veselka

Produced by: Tencent News, X Grain Media

Synopsis: When modern human beings are obscured by the network content of pan-entertainment, people are blocked in seemingly rich, but actually repetitive information calluses, and pay less and less attention to external affairs. And what is happening in the world is quietly entering and changing our lives. With a starting point from a global community of shared future, The Eve of Tomorrow is a documentary discussing the scientific, technological, social and human problems faced by the whole human community. The four themes selected are: whether human beings should have the right to end their own lives, whether robots can enter our family to become human’s companions, whether we should pursue the emerging technology of human immortality and how should different groups of human beings get along with each other?

24 Hours in the City

城市24小时

Length: 50 min, 5 episodes

Release Date: 2019-05-20

Director: Zhang Xu, Zhang Yu, Hai Jinxing, Zong Hongyu, etc.

Produced by: CCTV9

Synopsis: The series documentary 24 Hours in the City (Season 1), produced by CCTV9, was broadcast on May 20, 2019. The first season 24 Hours in the City focuses on five cities in China -- Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Xiamen, taking 24 hours a day as the observation axis, looking for the unique temperament and personality of each city through the real and fresh life pictures on different time nodes and trying to restore the neglected beauty of a city from the usual daily trifles.

Life Is a Belief

一百年很长吗

Length: 28 min, 9 episodes

Release Date: 2019-05-08

Director: Xiao Han

Produced by: Latent Image, Youku, Bilibili, Lian Ray Pictures, etc.  

Synopsis: For a craft, a hundred years is a history of inheritance, but for a person, a hundred years is a real life circle. With more than a dozen groups of staff members, a hundred thousand kilometers of travel, a year of follow-up, Life Is a Belief searched for more than ten ancient crafts and small shops that last a hundred years, focusing on those whose fates and crafts are entangled together. From their normal lives just like us, the documentary wants to explore how crafts can be a companion to their lives and where on earth does the power that underpins a craft to pass on come from?

Marquis of Haihun

海昏侯

Length: 50 min, 3 episodes

Release Date: 2019-03-20

Director: Zhang Li, Jin Bei

Produced by: CCTV9  

Synopsis: In 2011, an ancient tomb was accidentally found which shocked people both at home and abroad. The glittering wealth in the coffin seemed to bring a dynasty over 2000 years ago back to life again. The rediscovery of Liu He's tomb provides more vivid materials for today's people to interpret that long history so that we can have a talk with that period and have more sympathy and understandings for the life of Marquis of Haihun which is full of unexpected sudden changes.