Movies: Chinese Shadows

  • 2023
    Youth (Spring)

    Youth (Spring) (2023)

    Youth (Spring)

    6.72023HD

    This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for...

    Youth (Spring)
  • 2012
    11 Flowers

    11 Flowers (2012)

    11 Flowers

    6.82012HD

    A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand the adult world....

    11 Flowers
  • 2018
    Chinese Portrait

    Chinese Portrait (2018)

    Chinese Portrait

    6.92018HD

    Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, t...

    Chinese Portrait
  • 2016
    Ta'ang

    Ta'ang (2016)

    Ta'ang

    5.62016HD

    The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015...

    Ta'ang
  • 2018
    Bitter Money

    Bitter Money (2018)

    Bitter Money

    5.82018HD

    In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relatio...

    Bitter Money
  • 2012
    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters (2012)

    Three Sisters

    7.42012HD

    The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province....

    Three Sisters
  • 2008
    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts (2008)

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts

    02008HD

    The elderly are interviewed on the memories they have on the Japanese soldiers who occupied China in the late ‘30s. Some remembered, some didn’t, but the result is an endearing chronicle of what we choose to live with in the old age....

    My Neighbours and Their Japanese Ghosts
  • 2022
    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (2022)

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

    4.52022HD

    “Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he starts to talk about the struggles of his family, amid China’s troubled times of the 1960s. When his own father, Lei Ting...

    Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish
  • 2019
    Breathless Animals

    Breathless Animals (2019)

    Breathless Animals

    02019HD

    "What did you dream about and what was your daily life as a teenager?” An older woman recalls her youthful memories in China during the 1970’s while unfolding in front of our eyes the recreation of the modern times from the past. Until one day, the f...

    Breathless Animals
  • 2009
    Wild Grass

    Wild Grass (2009)

    Wild Grass

    02009HD

    Since the start of the 1990s, a period during which the Chinese government criticised the Western media for biased reporting, Chinese orphanages have strictly controlled access by the media. Because of the difficulty of gaining entrance, it is extrem...

    Wild Grass
  • 2008
    The Love of Mr. An

    The Love of Mr. An (2008)

    The Love of Mr. An

    82008HD

    Mr. An is almost 90 years old. He loves life, dance and the smiling young Xiao Wei, his daily life companion. His wife, secluded at home, is quite unhappy about this friendly and love relationship. Xiao Wei’s husband doesn’t seem to care. One morning...

    The Love of Mr. An
  • 2021
    Out of This World

    Out of This World (2021)

    Out of This World

    52021HD

    When a pandemic breaks out, Li You is given a long vacation while Xiao Xiao is forced to remain in a city that she does not know well. A strange atmosphere hangs over the urban landscape. The two of them wander the streets in search of fun things to ...

    Out of This World