Du Haibin

A once-prosperous coal mining town is now in decline, as Chinese economic policy has pivoted away from coal. Through the director’s own family, the film depicts the source of life—mined from the darkness of 800 meters underground—that has given, as well as taken away from them.

Wang Hongwei, who played the leading role of Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" twenty years ago, is still playing a role in the new film directed by the young people; there are always crowd actors at the entrance of Beiying, they are looking for job opportunities that day or a place tonight; a The students in the art test class are preparing for the film exam. The two girls were excited to see the idol at a premiere; the projectionist in a small city complained about everything about the film, and he missed the previous red film; one A new film critic has participated in her first film festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival. They share various dreams: make a fortune, maintain artistic independence, and have a full meal.

A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.

A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.

The "Great Sichuan Earthquake" took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. In the days after, ordinary people salvage destroyed pig farms in the mountains, collect cheap scrapped metals, or pillaging other victims' homes. Behind the media circus of official visits is an inconsolable grief of families searching for loved ones. As the Lunar New Year approaches, vagabonds and family tell of the ill-handling of rebuilding schemes and misuse relief funds. As they prepare for another visit from a high official, the refugees are swept out of the town and into tent cities. The promise to put a roof over their heads before winter seems impossible to keep.

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the exploited class. Borrowing this concept, the umbrella is taken as the clue to rediscover changes in various social classes after the economic reform, and to analyze the social problems in China. Workers making umbrellas, merchants selling umbrellas, students looking for jobs in the rain. Umbrella is used as a metaphor that can be seen everywhere. As the raindrop, what we see is sometimes clear, sometimes untraceable.

On a stone mountain in the far suburbs of Beijing, there is a group of migrant workers from the Northeast who are engaged in stone mining all year round. Lao Cao, Xiao Cao, Lao Yu Lao Zhang are among them.

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.

This is a documentary about some actor performing in a reverse performance at a gay bar in Chengdu. In reverse, men perform women's roles in women's clothing. The reverse actors in the film all have different sexual orientations from ordinary people. They are the marginal group of the marginal group gay. They performed roles different from their own gender on the stage, lived differently from ordinary people on stage, and pursued their freedom and happiness in their own way.

A Yi and A Bing are both working in the same company, living in the basement 4 of a luxury building with both business and residence attributes. A Yi went back to his hometown at Sichuan before Chinese New Year, so he could earn double wage for the Chinese New Year duty. The movie records the whole process of him back to home. His home is at a mountain, has elders and kids at home, has many trivial things waits him to settle. A Bing married when he is forty. After finish the marriage outside Beijing, he came back to company. He has no feel to his newly married wife, A Jiao. He still thinks of his ex-girlfriend who has cohabited with him for 3 years.

Chinese short film directed by Zhang Yang.

This important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers who eke out a living, begging, foraging, stealing and sleeping rough near the Baoji railway station in Shaanxi.

Documentary on the life of a young fellow drifting in the city.