10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore the advice of their mothers and grandmothers, turning instead to counselling hotlines and, increasingly, divorce.
Diane Li, a graduate student in communication at the University of Stanford, was permitted for five weeks to visit the People’s Republic of China with her husband, a professor of Chinese law at Stanford, and a team of medical experts. Together they investigated and documented the training and work of China’s peasant paramedicals, the ‘barefoot doctors’. One of the first films about China made by an American of Chinese descent, Li’s documentary provides a rare glimpse of village life in the PRC at a time when Cold War tensions were easing between the United States and China.
This short documentary follows a group of students from Hamilton, Ontario, on a rare three-week “tour” of China in 1972. These teenagers were the first North American students to visit China since 1949, when Mao Tse Tung’s Communists overthrew the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek.
In the late 1940's two young, idealistic American scientists made the extraordinary decision to settle down and work in a remote district of China. They were drawn by the promise as they saw it, of profound social revolution. Joan Hinton was a physicist, one of the few women to have worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Sid Engst was from Cornell University in up state New York, and a specialist in agriculture. This is a fascinating account of the lives these two Americans built for themselves in the very midst of China's most troubled times.
A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu
Game developer Elliott Marc Jones, his girlfriend Stephenie and musician Matthew Sayers travel to three major Chinese cities to conquer the country's most dangerous activities and extreme sports.
A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.
A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waiting in the street... From all those different people in these unfamiliar places, we can feel the exhaustion of every life.
Li Li, intelligent young woman is working in a mill Xian'an. The company knows the difficulties. Her husband, who worked in the same company, was among the first laid off and has launched a small business (fish). They have a little boy, Bing Bing. Tired, Li Li will visit the hospital. The verdict: acute leukemia. The bone marrow is financially out of reach. Rest chemotherapy less effective but require her husband to sell the family home. In addition, Li Li needs a little freedom to live a little for herself and get answers before ... She goes to Beijing to visit the one she was in love ten years ago, and who was not accepted by her parents.
An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art.
To really understand China, you have to get to know its people! Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China’s first tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen – meeting the cities’ most fascinating people, including a racy nude photographer, a mosquito breeding scientist and a DIY maker challenging gender and tech stereotypes.
Ein Junge vom Land kommt zu kriminellen Verwandten in die Großstadt Shanghai der Dreißigerjahre, wo er als Diener für die Geliebte eines Gangsterbosses arbeiten soll.
Der Film wurde im Laufe von zehn Jahren sowohl auf Film als auch auf Video gedreht und besteht aus einer Reihe sorgfältig komponierter Tableaus von Menschen und Umgebungen. Fußgänger schlurfen über eine belebte Straße in Peking, Stahlarbeiter verweilen vor einer verlassenen Fabrik, Touristen lachen und huschen über einen überfüllten Strand, Gläubige knien nieder, um in einem abgelegenen Dorf zu beten. Mit einem malerischen Auge für die Komposition fängt Wang China ein, wie er es sieht, und bringt ein Land in ständigem Wandel zum vorübergehenden Stillstand.
Erinnerungen in dampfenden Nudeln, eine welkende Schönheit auf der Suche nach sich selbst und eine bittersüße erste Liebe – alles Anekdoten über das Stadtleben in China. Der Film besteht aus drei Kurzgeschichten mit den Titeln »Hidamari no Chōshoku« (Sunny Breakfast), »Chiisana Fashion Show« (A Small Fashion Show) und »Shanghai Koi« (Shanghai Love), die alle in verschiedenen chinesischen Städten spielen.
Das heutige China bedeckt eine riesige Fläche. So unterschiedliche wie die Landstriche sind auch die Bevölkerungsschichten, doch Gewalt ist überall gegenwärtig. A Touch of Sin verstrickt Chinesen aus unterschiedlichen Milieus in vier Geschichten die in großstädtischen Regionen wie Guangzhou, aber auch in ländlicheren Gebieten wie der Provinz Shanxi spielen.
Die schöne Judou wird vom hoch angesehenen Jin-shan, Besitzer einer Färberei, gekauft, um ihn zu heiraten. Sie ist für ihn jedoch nur ein Mittel zum Zweck, um einen Nachfolger zu zeugen. Nachts treibt er zu seiner Belustigung kaltblütig seine grausamen Spielchen mit ihr. Tian-qing, sein Neffe, arbeitet ebenfalls in der Färberei und kann Judous nächtliche Schreie nur schwer ertragen. Die beiden verlieben sich und verbringen eine gemeinsame Nacht, aus der ein Sohn hervorgeht. Jin-shan ist in dem Glauben, es wäre sein eigenes Kind, und so müssen die beiden ihre Liebe vor ihm verbergen.
The films spans two decades as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.
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 to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.