Dong Jinsong

History

The Wild Goose Lake (2019) is Dong Jinsong’s fourth collaboration with director/writer Diao Yinan. In 2003 he shot Diao’s directorial debut Uniform, in 2007, he shot Night Train which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes that year and Black Coal, Thin Ice which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014. In 2011 Dong was Director of Photography on Xiaoshuai Wang’s 11 Flowers, which was nominated for Best Children’s Feature Film in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also for Cai Shangjun’s People Mountain People Sea which premiered In Competition at the 68th Venice Festival.

Profile

Movies

Night Light: Making of The Wild Goose Lake

Feature length making-of documentary of The Wild Goose Lake.

The Wild Goose Lake

Director of Photography

A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.

Long Day's Journey into Night

Director of Photography

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

The Donor

Director of Photography

On his moped, Yang Ba travels every day from the grubby apartment he shares with his wife and son to the ramshackle tyre workshop where he tries to earn a living for his family. But having a child of student age is expensive and Yang’s finances are put under even more pressure when the municipality plans to demolish his neighbourhood. His distress puts him in touch with Li Daguo, who is looking for a kidney for his desperately ill sister.

Black Coal, Thin Ice

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Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.

11 Flowers

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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.

People Mountain People Sea

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A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.

Night Train

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Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, until she meets the husband of one of her prisoners.

Uniform

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A struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker returns to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.