Movies: Wang Bing

  • 2011
    The Ditch

    The Ditch (2011)

    The Ditch

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    The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these ...

    The Ditch
  • 2018
    Mrs. Fang

    Mrs. Fang (2018)

    Mrs. Fang

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    In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced symptoms and ineffective treatment, she was sent back home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relati...

    Mrs. Fang
  • 2018
    Bitter Money

    Bitter Money (2018)

    Bitter Money

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    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
  • 2014
    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

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    With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy....

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
  • 2003
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

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    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us t...

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • 2025
    Youth (Homecoming)

    Youth (Homecoming) (2025)

    Youth (Homecoming)

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    Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to go to their remote hometowns to visit their families and celebrate the festivi...

    Youth (Homecoming)
  • 2023
    Youth (Spring)

    Youth (Spring) (2023)

    Youth (Spring)

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    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
    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters (2012)

    Three Sisters

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    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
  • 2018
    Dead Souls

    Dead Souls (2018)

    Dead Souls

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    In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation c...

    Dead Souls
  • 2018
    Night and Fog in Zona

    Night and Fog in Zona (2018)

    Night and Fog in Zona

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    Korean film critic Jeong Sung-il’s camera explores the work of Wang Bing, a Chinese director who won international fame with his film Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks. Jeong’s attempt to pry into Wang’s filmmaking secrets leads to the question: “What is...

    Night and Fog in Zona
  • 2013
    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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    Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema....

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • 1993
    1966, My Time in the Red Guards

    1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993)

    1966, My Time in the Red Guards

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    More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ironically represented the official avant-garde, a movement car...

    1966, My Time in the Red Guards
  • 2025
    Youth (Hard Times)

    Youth (Hard Times) (2025)

    Youth (Hard Times)

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    In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasing...

    Youth (Hard Times)
  • 2014
    'Til Madness Do Us Part

    'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014)

    'Til Madness Do Us Part

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    An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone, committing a crime against a public official, or have a developmental disability....

    'Til Madness Do Us Part
  • 2007
    The State of the World

    The State of the World (2007)

    The State of the World

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    An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world....

    The State of the World
  • 2016
    Ta'ang

    Ta'ang (2016)

    Ta'ang

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    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
  • 2009
    Tiananmen

    Tiananmen (2009)

    Tiananmen

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    It's 1949 and Tiananmen Square is a mess. Overgrown with weeds and thoroughly dilapidated it looks like hell, but it's where Chairman Mao wants to hold the Founding Ceremony for the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. And so TIAN AN MEN re...

    Tiananmen
  • 2007
    Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

    Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007)

    Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

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    The film consists almost entirely of an interview with the elderly He Fengming, recounting her experiences in post-1949 China....

    Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
  • 2010
    Man With No Name

    Man With No Name (2010)

    Man With No Name

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    The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to the neighboring villages, although he doesn’t communicate with other people. He collects some waste bu...

    Man With No Name
  • 2023
    Man in Black

    Man in Black (2023)

    Man in Black

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    Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this ...

    Man in Black