50 men live for 12 months in a madhouse, they passing their days in a single plane and having little contact with the medical team. Every one of the inmates is not there for mental health problems but for had killing someone for committing a crime against public officials.
Wang Xilin, China's most important modern classical composers who was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. Besides having a life of suffering, he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.
The encounter between a man, who returns from the big city to countryside and then stays to take up an agricultural role, being brought up by his grandparents.
Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters.
After studying abroad, Peng Tian returns to his Chinese hometown. Despite its modern facade, he feels trapped by traditional family duties and social pressures, leading him to seek freedom through risky investments.
Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.
In a world of propaganda images, surrealist collage and pop-art animation, artist-filmmaker Lei Lei and his family recall the past to make sense of the present.
In a remote Chinese village nestled in Yunnan's mountains, filmmaker Wang Bing captures the daily lives of three sisters-aged ten, six, and four-whose mother left years ago, while their father works away from home.
