2005
Chinese documentary 2005
Tian Gebing | 2005 | 100 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film is named after a men’s club in Beijing. The setting is a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing and the tenants are a group of men and women who enjoy each other’s company. They came to Beijing with ambitious dreams and hungry for opportunity. Most of them were born in the 1980s. This generation lives could be ...
Synopsis:
This film is named after a men’s club in Beijing. The setting is a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing and the tenants are a group of men and women who enjoy each other’s company. They came to Beijing with ambitious dreams and hungry for opportunity. Most of them were born in the 1980s. This generation lives could be ...
Chen Zhong | 2005 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Huang Weikai | 2005 | 93 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The film’s subject is Yang, a 30-year-old vagrant from rural Henan Province. He earns his living singing in the subway stations in urban business centers. He carries with him his temporary residency card and identification card in hopes that the local police won’t catch him.
China’s economic disparity betw...
Synopsis:
The film’s subject is Yang, a 30-year-old vagrant from rural Henan Province. He earns his living singing in the subway stations in urban business centers. He carries with him his temporary residency card and identification card in hopes that the local police won’t catch him.
China’s economic disparity betw...
Wu Wenguang | 2005 | 150 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This documentary shows how young people try to realize their dreams or find fame through the film industry. A central characters is Wang, a 28 year-old man from the countryside. His love for the cinema brought him to Beijing but all he can do is line up outside the gate of a film studio every day in hopes of la...
Synopsis:
This documentary shows how young people try to realize their dreams or find fame through the film industry. A central characters is Wang, a 28 year-old man from the countryside. His love for the cinema brought him to Beijing but all he can do is line up outside the gate of a film studio every day in hopes of la...
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...
Zhang Ke and Dong Yu | 2005 | 43 min. | Chinese subtitles
Synopsis:
Lian Feng Village is located in Wei Yuan County of Gansu Province. In 2005, the local authority planned to build a highway and more than one hundred families were forced to move away from their homeland. The villagers believed that the action of the local officials was illegitimate. In order to protect their rights, they decided to make an appeal to the court. Director’s Bio:
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Synopsis:
Lian Feng Village is located in Wei Yuan County of Gansu Province. In 2005, the local authority planned to build a highway and more than one hundred families were forced to move away from their homeland. The villagers believed that the action of the local officials was illegitimate. In order to protect their rights, they decided to make an appeal to the court. Director’s Bio:
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