Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...

1937 film by Yuan Muzhi

2007 film by Jiang Wen

1982 film

A young boy lives with his grandfather in China while his parents work abroad.

2006 film by Wang Quan'an

Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal.

1997 film by Feng Xiaoning

一对情侣（张京生 & 吕丽萍 饰）为了钱财抢劫火车，致使一辆运送剧毒药品的闷罐车发生泄漏，最终烧穿了臭氧层。与此同时，正因病在家休息的男孩（张宁 饰）突然发现自己能听懂好朋友大白猫的语言了。大白猫告诉他说这起严重的事故如不及时加以制止，地球上的生物最终都将灭亡。然而大人们为了金钱忙碌奔波，根本不会相信男孩和动物说的话。万般无奈之下，男孩只能和其他动物联合起来寻找污染源，以一己之力拯救全人类……

1997 film by Ann Hui

Liang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing, since his parents are often away. Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society.

本片由由威尼斯电影节发起，并由联合国儿童基金会选定七位导演各自拍摄七部以儿童为主题的短片，旨在唤醒世人对儿童的关注和爱护。
《坦扎》梅迪·夏夫（Mehdi Charef）
非洲男孩坦扎的国家正陷入内战，他手执冰冷冷的枪战战兢兢度过每一天，他多么希望能回到安静的家乡和充满 阳光的课堂……
《蓝色吉卜赛》埃米尔·库斯图里卡（Emir Kusturica）
吉普赛男孩乌洛斯（Uros Milovanovic 饰）即将走出少管所，但是大墙外的自由世界却看不到幸福的希望……
《上帝保佑的美国孩子》斯派克·李（Spike Lee）
小女孩从父母那里感染了艾滋病，幼小的她该如何面对这一切？
《毕露和乔》卡迪亚·兰德（Kátia Lund）
毕露和乔是住在巴西贫民窟的两个好朋友，为了一双新球鞋，为了给家中多添一片瓦，他们拾废品换钱，永远保持乐观的精神……
《乔纳森》雷德利·斯科特（Ridley Scott）&乔丹·斯科特（Jordan Scott）
战地记者经历无数人间惨剧，回到欧洲后他备受折磨，恍惚间他回到了自己的童年……
《Ciro》斯蒂芬诺·维奈鲁索（Stefano Veneruso）
意大利那不勒斯，男孩光天化日之下偷盗抢劫，只为了……
《欢欢和小猫》吴宇森
欢欢是个家庭富裕娇生惯养的小女孩，小猫则是被人抛弃然后由捡破烂的爷爷好心抚养长大的可怜孩子。一场灾祸，一个洋娃娃，将两个孩子的生活连在一起……

2006 film directed by Xu Jinglei

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

2004 film by Feng Xiaogang

Sitian, a Chinese American conductor, returns to China to give a concert and to find her three siblings again, after having been separated from them for years after the death of their parents.

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

这部纪录片的镜头对准了北京城里一群见天扎堆聊天的老头，他们在居民楼前的空地上每天见面，用聊天排解退休后的单调。老头们大多为工厂奉献终生，而今只有嘲弄岁月的残酷，从中得到一些宽慰。这些老头中有单身生活的老人，在出院后对医院的条件破口大骂，但又会为方便其他老人活动而拾掇出一片空地；也有相濡以沫的老两口，一个为另一个遭受的不平待遇而愤懑，但最终在沉下来的日子中平静了。冬天过后，终于有老人真的离开了人世，老头们念叨着失去的朋友，继续他们的聊天……
本片获1999年日本山形纪录片电影节亚洲新浪潮优秀奖，2000年巴黎真实电影节评委会奖。

1994 film by Jiang Wen

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.