Best Chinese animation movies

Cloud of the Unknown (2020)

A girl lives on the edge of (un)reality, and whenever she falls asleep, she disappears into uncanny dreams: a violin with broken strings, a room on fire, vacant streets, infinite staircases; a pair of flying hands guiding her (and us) through thorns and bushes, pulling out endless multiples of herself.

The Ants (2007)

Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...

The Song of Yue (2020)

The story is inspired by Yin , the emperor of Yue opera.The girl to be married looks at herself with sadness.Men outside urged her to hurry up.Escape or surrender? She couldn't help but think of the memory of her first appearance on the stage.

Summer Summer (2020)

This is a secret diary of summer. The entire film is directly animated on time-stamped film, and the improvised painting traces are infinitely magnified through projection and scanning. Summertime collects the emotions that belong to each person’s unique taste and ferments them into small universes, and will eventually disappear with the touch of greenness at the last moment of summer.

茗记：2nd Life (2007)

So Red and A Little Blue (2015)

The fragments of information scatter amongst computer and Internet, and constitute the world of Red and Blue. When they meet, their faces look red, but are their moods also a little blue?

The Big Girl 8: The Little Match Girl (2014)

The characters forced to shoot for the animation studio discover a potential way to return to their own world.

白蛇2：青蛇劫起 (2021)

The Big Girl 3 (2011)

The princess ends up in a chase against the prince and the Devil.

The Big Girl 2 (2010)

After cursed to gain weight by the Devil, the princess persuades him to undo the curse.

The Song For Rain (2012)

The animation tells the story about a gloomy rainy season, a boy who accidentally met a little fox. There are two worlds, one is a humid but oppressive city, the other is bright and natural but needs water.

Black (2020)

An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China.

The Big Girl 5 (2013)

The princess takes part in a competition for resurrection, in a game where contestants are transformed into sushi and must fight to the death before they reach the goal.

Zero One (2018)

Zero One is a code-based generative video commissioned by Zero One Technology Festival 2018 in Shenzhen, PR China. This project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.

The Memory of Ice (2011)

Short animated film about the clima crisis from CUC Anima and Gobelins

红领巾侠 (2010)

The Big Girl 7: The Secret of the Animation Company (Part 2) (2013)

The princess, the Devil and the prince take part in one of the animation director's lacklustre cartoons.

The Big Girl 6: The Secret of the Animation Company (Part 1) (2013)

The prince and the Devil seek a doctor for the princess, but end up breaking into an animation studio where characters like them are being forced to act in a thousand-episode series.

Rabbit Tailor (2013)

Rabbit Tailor tells a story about a rabbit tailor who makes puppet dolls and sell them through internet. A Film by Siqi Song Thesis Film from China Central Academy of Fine Arts

歌声飞出五指山 (1978)

Encounter (2012)

The stop-motion animation is about a mischief boy adventuring in an unknown house and getting caught by the owner who lost her grandson in a car accident years ago. The intruder feels the grandma's sorrow, and tries to help her find peace of mind. The setting is based on the architecture of Suzhou, a historical water-town in Southern China.

Alibeda (2016)

2016 graduation work of Zhou Dawei, Huang Xiaozhen and Li Haolong from the Animation Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

The Big Girl 4 (2013)

The prince and the Devil attempt to cure the princess from having passed out, while she finds herself in deep consciousness.

Watermelon Cannon (1979)

Watermelon Run is a puppet show animation produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in Mainland China in 1979 . The film is based on Liu Zhengtai 's folktale of the same name, and is divided into upper and lower parts, telling the story of a child soldier during the Shanghai Xiaodaohui uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty .

The Puppet (2021)

An animation short full of plot twists.

元日 (2015)

Green Grassland (1990)

The film is a work on environmental protection. Through the combination of physical objects and animation, it appeals to people to show mercy and love our green grassland.

Inversion (1990)

Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.

Paradise (1986)

The film interprets the folklore of Hongluo Lake in northern China. The three-headed water monster ravaged Hongluo Lake, destroyed the village fort, and displaced the tribes. A young man named Da Xin in the tribe was looking for a peaceful place to stay away from his hometown. The hardships and ups and downs along the way brought disappointment. Finally, with the help of the Red Conch Fairy, he knew what a happy land is, and he decided to fight to the death.

Mirror (1989)

Mirrors are constantly being replaced on the walls that look like news and newspapers, but the characters reflected in the mirrors are always unsatisfactory..., the last mirror makes everything harmonious. The following truth is extremely disturbing, who is lying! Is it a mirror? Is it a human?