Catalog
Shao Yuzhen | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
My Village 2009 is my fourth feature length film. It is about the new developments in my village. In 2009 my granddaughter was born, and the film documents these changes in my family. It also follows the other villagers, many of whom are busily building new houses. This year people are fighting over land. ...
Filmmaker’s words:
My Village 2009 is my fourth feature length film. It is about the new developments in my village. In 2009 my granddaughter was born, and the film documents these changes in my family. It also follows the other villagers, many of whom are busily building new houses. This year people are fighting over land. ...
Zhang Huancai | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
Gaoming Liu | 2006 | 100 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film follows Pai Gu (nicknamed Chop), a guy from Jiangxi Province who makes a living selling pirated DVDs in Shenzhen. Ironically, he only sells art films. He knows everything about these films and filmmakers but he’s never seen any. He thinks that since he just has a junior high school education he won’t understand...
Synopsis:
This film follows Pai Gu (nicknamed Chop), a guy from Jiangxi Province who makes a living selling pirated DVDs in Shenzhen. Ironically, he only sells art films. He knows everything about these films and filmmakers but he’s never seen any. He thinks that since he just has a junior high school education he won’t understand...
Wang Hao | 2006 | 104 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis：
This documentary was filmed in the pediatric department in Ningguo People's Hospital in Anhui Province. This is the biggest and best local hospital, treating 60% of the patients of the region. The pediatric department was one of its busiest departments until the privately owned Huatai Hospital opened in 2004. Then there w...
Synopsis：
This documentary was filmed in the pediatric department in Ningguo People's Hospital in Anhui Province. This is the biggest and best local hospital, treating 60% of the patients of the region. The pediatric department was one of its busiest departments until the privately owned Huatai Hospital opened in 2004. Then there w...
Chen Zhong | 2009 | 98 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Red White explores villagers’ self-governance in two villages. In Guoxing Village in Heilongjiang Province in Northeastern China, villagers vote to elect the director of the village committee. In Nanping Village in Anhui Province in Southern China，a young man named Yang Yunbiao organizes his fellow villagers to form a coll...
Synopsis:
Red White explores villagers’ self-governance in two villages. In Guoxing Village in Heilongjiang Province in Northeastern China, villagers vote to elect the director of the village committee. In Nanping Village in Anhui Province in Southern China，a young man named Yang Yunbiao organizes his fellow villagers to form a coll...
Zou Xueping | 2011 | 88 min. | English subtitles
Director’s Statement:
After I finished my documentary The Hungry Village, I returned to my hometown to screen it for my family. They were unanimously against it. All of them- my parents who were born in the 50s, and my brothers, born in the 70s and 90s—believed it was dangerous to investigate the famine in our village tha...
Director’s Statement:
After I finished my documentary The Hungry Village, I returned to my hometown to screen it for my family. They were unanimously against it. All of them- my parents who were born in the 50s, and my brothers, born in the 70s and 90s—believed it was dangerous to investigate the famine in our village tha...
Jian Yi | 2006 | 55 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Voices from China’s 700,000 villages have always been faint. When ten of those 900 million Chinese villagers receive video cameras and film their villages, those voices grow louder. This film follows the ten participants of a groundbreaking video project as they receive their video cameras, learn to use them, and then...
Synopsis:
Voices from China’s 700,000 villages have always been faint. When ten of those 900 million Chinese villagers receive video cameras and film their villages, those voices grow louder. This film follows the ten participants of a groundbreaking video project as they receive their video cameras, learn to use them, and then...
Zhang Mengqi | 2010 | 70 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This year I turned twenty-three, the age when women become pregnant with dreams. Yet, while nursing our own dreams, we carry the burdens of two other women’s dreams as well. This film began with myself and then branched to my mother and her mother, these women who grew up in such different times. Three generations of ...
Synopsis:
This year I turned twenty-three, the age when women become pregnant with dreams. Yet, while nursing our own dreams, we carry the burdens of two other women’s dreams as well. This film began with myself and then branched to my mother and her mother, these women who grew up in such different times. Three generations of ...
Zhang Mengqi | 2011 | 77 min. | English subtitles
Director’s Statement:
This is my second self-portrait film. (The first is Self-portrait with Three Women.) It takes place in a village called 47 KM. It’s called this because it’s located at the 47th kilometer marker on the road from Suizhou in Hubei Province. My father was born there. He left when he was twenty years o...
Director’s Statement:
This is my second self-portrait film. (The first is Self-portrait with Three Women.) It takes place in a village called 47 KM. It’s called this because it’s located at the 47th kilometer marker on the road from Suizhou in Hubei Province. My father was born there. He left when he was twenty years o...
Leslie Tai | 2009 | 104 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Two tenacious 24-year-old Chinese girls born in the Year of the Pig—Leslie, born and raised in America, aspiring to make her first film, and Fenfen, born in China’s forsaken countryside, a foot massage girl aspiring to change her fate—become entangled in a mother-daughter love triangle. Fenfen meets her benefactre...
Synopsis:
Two tenacious 24-year-old Chinese girls born in the Year of the Pig—Leslie, born and raised in America, aspiring to make her first film, and Fenfen, born in China’s forsaken countryside, a foot massage girl aspiring to change her fate—become entangled in a mother-daughter love triangle. Fenfen meets her benefactre...
Yan Junjie | 2005 | 84 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film documents the filmmaker’s life in college and at home, his friends, his band and his romances from 2001 to 2005. Yan says, “This project is an experiment: to use documentary to find an answer to life, or to use one’s own life to search for documentary. This is how Snippets was born.” He refers to it as "u...
Synopsis:
This film documents the filmmaker’s life in college and at home, his friends, his band and his romances from 2001 to 2005. Yan says, “This project is an experiment: to use documentary to find an answer to life, or to use one’s own life to search for documentary. This is how Snippets was born.” He refers to it as "u...
Wang Yang | 2007 | 103 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film is an observation of the public spaces that link city and village. This is where the most change occurs as urbanization continues to alter China’s landscapes. Because of the rapid change of land ownership, the relationship between people and environment is altered. The film also captures the vivid expressions a...
Synopsis:
This film is an observation of the public spaces that link city and village. This is where the most change occurs as urbanization continues to alter China’s landscapes. Because of the rapid change of land ownership, the relationship between people and environment is altered. The film also captures the vivid expressions a...
Ji Dan | 2008 | 109 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
On a hill in Harbin, which is in China’s Heilongjiang Province, a girl neglects preparing for her exam. Her mother wants her to study but she draws pictures instead. Below the hill, a couple can’t approach their son about playing less with his friends. The feelings of these powerless parents blend with the atmosphere of an u...
Synopsis:
On a hill in Harbin, which is in China’s Heilongjiang Province, a girl neglects preparing for her exam. Her mother wants her to study but she draws pictures instead. Below the hill, a couple can’t approach their son about playing less with his friends. The feelings of these powerless parents blend with the atmosphere of an u...
Ji Dan | 2006 | 82 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The village of Xiaomo, located on the banks of the flood-prone Yellow River, has seen more than its fair share of demons. Half a century ago, after a devastating flood wiped out nearly the entire community, the village earned the rather unfortunate moniker “Xiaomo Village,” which translates roughly as “Death Village.” Tod...
Synopsis:
The village of Xiaomo, located on the banks of the flood-prone Yellow River, has seen more than its fair share of demons. Half a century ago, after a devastating flood wiped out nearly the entire community, the village earned the rather unfortunate moniker “Xiaomo Village,” which translates roughly as “Death Village.” Tod...