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This documentary installation consists of a single, 15-hour take shot in a garment factory in China and captures the daily labor of its 300,000 migrant workers and the functioning of its 18,000 production units. Rigorous and hypnotic, 15 Hours marks Wang’s most radical meditation on the contemporary meaning of work and the state of labor conditions in present-day China.Read More »
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Cai, a housewife who seems to have lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During her daughter’s basketball matches, she hurts an elderly woman. This event turns out to be a catalyst for a life that is spinning out of control.Read More »
Ting is on the brink of marriage, but still wounded by her father’s departure twenty years earlier. Setting out in search of him and for a sense of resolution, she travels from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, moving through late-night fruit markets and piers soaked in blue light, as an impending summer typhoon grows near. Meeting a childhood friend and reconnecting over a bootleg CD, Ting delves into her family’s secrets and the emotional turmoil still sharply rooted in her life.Read More »
Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel… a clever child with sparkly eyes and an indomitable will. As his parents frequently work away from Beijing, they decide to take Qiang to board at a well-appointed residential nursery school.
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. But it’s not so easy for Qiang to adapt to this kind of carefully organised, minutely scrutinised collective life.A fierce individualist in miniature, he tries but fails to conform to the model his teachers enforce. Yet he still craves the reward that the other students win: the little red flowers awarded each day as tokens for good behaviour.Read More »
A period of driving school life, twists and turns, but one by one, the dark war between the five people are also with the smooth clearance of the exam and the end. This experience of driving school involved five people’s joys and sorrows, in addition to learning the rules of driving, it seems to learn the rules of survival.Read More »
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Shi Ba is an alienated youngster living by himself in Beijing. He quits his “iron-rice-bowl” job arranged by his late high-ranking parents and becomes a private entrepreneur. While he is wandering in a Beijing subway station one day, he meets Yu Jing, a pretty dance student. Their relationship soon leads to cohabitation. Shi Ba’s involvement with some illegal business brings him wealth and threats of blackmail as well. The blackmailers leave him with a crippled leg after he refuses to comply with their demands. Although this docs not prevent him from marrying Yu Jing, Shi Ba never manages to maintain his human dignity in and outside the family. One evening, after some self-meditation, he jumps over the railing of a balcony and throws himself into the darkness.Read More »
During the Tang Dynasty’s era of “Zhen Guan” (era name during rule of Emperor Taizong), the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and dangers, natural disasters, and sees the sufferings of the common people. Soldiers gets in his way, his disciples betrays him, he struggles through deserts, runs short of food and water, all in the quest for Buddha’s teachings. He finally arrives in India, and studies Buddhism in earnest. By the time he returns to China, he is already 50 years old.Read More »
Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.Read More »
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages…Read More »