2008
Chinese documentary 2008
Chen Xiaosong | 2008 | 39 min. | English subtitles
Film Synopsis:
Along the tracks, the camera glides between two so-called marginal figures: a young man who is looking forward to marrying a Sichuanese woman and going to Beijing to find a job in a restaurant, and an old retired soldier who passionately voices his revolutionary aspirations while he inspects his Retired Milit...
Film Synopsis:
Along the tracks, the camera glides between two so-called marginal figures: a young man who is looking forward to marrying a Sichuanese woman and going to Beijing to find a job in a restaurant, and an old retired soldier who passionately voices his revolutionary aspirations while he inspects his Retired Milit...
Liu Heng | 2008 | 120 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Daxian is located deep in the Daba Mountains in the northeast of Sichuan Province. In fact, Daxian is the city's former name. It was changed because "xian" means town and the residents wanted it to be a city. They finally agreed on Dachuan, which is what it is called today. This film follows a group of students at the Railway Sc...
Synopsis:
Daxian is located deep in the Daba Mountains in the northeast of Sichuan Province. In fact, Daxian is the city's former name. It was changed because "xian" means town and the residents wanted it to be a city. They finally agreed on Dachuan, which is what it is called today. This film follows a group of students at the Railway Sc...
Wang Hongjun | 2008 | 105 min. | English subtitles
About the film:
A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of people all looking for one thing: a cure. The filmmaker uses a single camera position to capture one hundred patients that came to see Dr. Jia in 2008.
Filmmaker’s Statement:
In the summer of 2006 I returned home to recover from an operati...
About the film:
A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of people all looking for one thing: a cure. The filmmaker uses a single camera position to capture one hundred patients that came to see Dr. Jia in 2008.
Filmmaker’s Statement:
In the summer of 2006 I returned home to recover from an operati...
Song Tian | 2008 | 69 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis :
In 1934 Japanese pathfinders founded Tianli Village and built Tianli Shrine in the suburbs of Harbin City. Seventy-three years later, elementary and middle school students of Daowai District of Harbin City arrived for a three-day training camp. In an effort for “quality education,” the children are directed to “remember n...
Synopsis :
In 1934 Japanese pathfinders founded Tianli Village and built Tianli Shrine in the suburbs of Harbin City. Seventy-three years later, elementary and middle school students of Daowai District of Harbin City arrived for a three-day training camp. In an effort for “quality education,” the children are directed to “remember n...
Zou Xueping | 2008 | 65 min. | English subtitles
About the film:
This documentary film is about my plain, ordinary mother. She lives in a rural village where she raises pigs and works the land. She also takes care of my grandmother. She doesn’t have big ideals or lofty goals and desires nothing more than to be content and care for her family. My mother is uneducated but her views a...
About the film:
This documentary film is about my plain, ordinary mother. She lives in a rural village where she raises pigs and works the land. She also takes care of my grandmother. She doesn’t have big ideals or lofty goals and desires nothing more than to be content and care for her family. My mother is uneducated but her views a...
Yang Pingdao | 2008 | 279 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
My mother and father’s families have always lived in two villages close to each other in Guangdong Province. They were farmers with many mouths to feed. The two families often visited each other, especially during Chinese New Year. At the initial stage of Reform and Opening, some of the family gave up their rural ho...
Synopsis:
My mother and father’s families have always lived in two villages close to each other in Guangdong Province. They were farmers with many mouths to feed. The two families often visited each other, especially during Chinese New Year. At the initial stage of Reform and Opening, some of the family gave up their rural ho...
Jia Zhitan | 2008 | 71 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Jia Zhitan films his village, Yuanyichang Village in Hunan Province. He records the daily lives of the villagers, his life as an orange farmer and his efforts to start a agricultural co-op. He also documents his efforts as an activist to speak up for underrepresented people in his village.
Filmmaker’s Words:
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Synopsis:
Jia Zhitan films his village, Yuanyichang Village in Hunan Province. He records the daily lives of the villagers, his life as an orange farmer and his efforts to start a agricultural co-op. He also documents his efforts as an activist to speak up for underrepresented people in his village.
Filmmaker’s Words:
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Jia Zhitan | 2008 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The film records the happenings in Jia’s village, including the difficult process of starting the Shimen County Dedicated Orange Co-operative. The film continues to chart the progress of the quarry featured in Jia’s short documentary Quarry. During the elections for both county and village representatives, Jia asked Group L...
Synopsis:
The film records the happenings in Jia’s village, including the difficult process of starting the Shimen County Dedicated Orange Co-operative. The film continues to chart the progress of the quarry featured in Jia’s short documentary Quarry. During the elections for both county and village representatives, Jia asked Group L...
Shao Yuzhen | 2008 | 70 min. | English subtitles
About the Film:
This film records some of the changes that occurred in my village in 2007. I record the villagers hard at work, cultural events, folk customs, marriage and burial ceremonies, the annual land contracts, events sponsored by the village committee and the election that happens every four years. I also filmed my fam...
About the Film:
This film records some of the changes that occurred in my village in 2007. I record the villagers hard at work, cultural events, folk customs, marriage and burial ceremonies, the annual land contracts, events sponsored by the village committee and the election that happens every four years. I also filmed my fam...
Wang Wei | 2008 | 75 min. | English subtitles
About the Film:
My Village in 2007 documents scattered moments, some meaningful, some mundane. To me everyday in the village is pretty much the same. It’s quite enervating. We live in the 21st century, use cell phones, televisions and some even computers, but our farmer identity is branded into us. We can only watch helplessly ...
About the Film:
My Village in 2007 documents scattered moments, some meaningful, some mundane. To me everyday in the village is pretty much the same. It’s quite enervating. We live in the 21st century, use cell phones, televisions and some even computers, but our farmer identity is branded into us. We can only watch helplessly ...
Zhang Huancai | 2008 | 80 min. | English subtitles
About The Film:
2007 wasn’t anything special. Us villagers continued to ravage the soil for food and scope the cities for ways to survive. We’re like a flock of chickens without a farmer to feed us. Our village is our roost while the cities’ promises of work and pay send us scattering to the winds.
In th...
About The Film:
2007 wasn’t anything special. Us villagers continued to ravage the soil for food and scope the cities for ways to survive. We’re like a flock of chickens without a farmer to feed us. Our village is our roost while the cities’ promises of work and pay send us scattering to the winds.
In th...
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...
Fan Jian | 2008 | 59 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Beijing is a city rushing toward modernization. Covered in the veil of night, desire grows. Taxis swarm in the city and never seem to pause. A taxi driver, thirty years old, married for seven years, lives in Beijing. He is passionless in a city that pulses with passion. His passengers are teachers, doctors, students, merchants, p...
Synopsis:
Beijing is a city rushing toward modernization. Covered in the veil of night, desire grows. Taxis swarm in the city and never seem to pause. A taxi driver, thirty years old, married for seven years, lives in Beijing. He is passionless in a city that pulses with passion. His passengers are teachers, doctors, students, merchants, p...
Zhou Yu | 2008 | 52 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The Other Shore explores the ancient tradition of preserving human bodies in some areas of the Yellow River. The living that inhabit this side of the river seldom think about the dead lying on the opposite shore. By comparing the people then and now, this film explores the values of our ancestors and the symbolism of the word “d...
Synopsis:
The Other Shore explores the ancient tradition of preserving human bodies in some areas of the Yellow River. The living that inhabit this side of the river seldom think about the dead lying on the opposite shore. By comparing the people then and now, this film explores the values of our ancestors and the symbolism of the word “d...