ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.

The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.

Many Chinese documentary-makers have spent the last decade exploring the human cost of destruction.

Yi Cui’s “Through the Looking Glass” is a powerful short that reflects the agency of indigenous filmmakers.

Certainly, it's impossible to watch a film of Wang’s and be left indifferent; each leaves a great impression.

What’s audacious about Yang’s movie is her clear-eyed acceptance of the chaos of relationships. There will be no easy resolution.

Liu commits to a narrative refraction of an only child in a family of bag makers with a non-fictional rigor that eschews objective context.

Regardless of location, tradition or political particularities, artists’ lives the world over carry as many similarities as not.

The winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s prestigious Tiger Award in 2018 subtly turns the genre’s conventions on their head.

Pema Tseden’s entire body of work [creates] a hyper-real interconnected universe of stories and characters representing modern Tibet.

The lack of freedom isn’t the point. If so, what more is there to say as an independent artist in China?

American and Chinese audiences face a similar challenge: in a landscape controlled by government-mandated censorship and corporate-driven co

A terrific, madly varied list that includes propaganda blockbusters and wildly indie films like dGenerate Films title "Girls Always Happy."

Smog Town and Our Time Machine make clear the invisible line that Chinese documentaries, made in and for China, must navigate.

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By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph In Focus spotlights dGenerate titles that shed light on some of the weightiest issues in contemporary China. Fr...