Li Hongqi, winner of the Golden Leopard for Winter Vacation (Photo: Locarno Film Festival) by Isabella Tianzi Cai 34-year-old Chinese...

Li Xianting Film School's Ying Liang (left) and Zhu Rikun (right) with owner and daughter of their favorite restaurant in Songzhuang...

by Isabella Tianzi Cai Spring Fever (dir. Lou Ye) In The New York Times, critic Dennis Lim profiled Chinese director Lou Ye and his film...

by Isabella Tianzi Cai Wang Xiaoshuai introduces Jia Zhangke as Lou Ye looks on at the BC MOMA in Beijing (photo: Dan Edwards) On July...

Directors Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye at the Beijing premiere of Wang's Chongqing Blues (photo courtesy of Screening China)...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai and Kevin B. Lee Aftershock (dir. Feng Xiaogang) The 1976 Tangshan Earthquake was one of the worst natural...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang) The Taiwanese film magazine Fun Screen called on 68 filmmakers, film scholars, film...

Portrait of Mozambique President Armando Guebuza in a Chinese restaurant (Photo: Ella Raidel, IFF Rotterdam) The International Film...

In May and June 2010, IDFA is traveling though China, where the festival is presenting several documentary programs in Beijing and...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Han Han (photo: China Digital Times) Ranked as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in a 2010 survey by...

Jian Yi (Photo by Christopher Capozziello for the Open Society Institute) Next week, we’ll post the second of our video interviews...

The feature is not available online, but we’ve secured permission to make it available as a downloadable .pdf on the dGenerate website....

Buried (dir. Wang Libo) Wang Libo’s film Buried was one of the prizewinners of the 2009 Beijing Documentary Film Festival. This probing...

New Yorker Magazine’s China correspondent Evan Osnos has a feature article in the newest issue on Ai Weiwei, exploring the phenomenon and...

Director Ai Xiaoming The Epoch Times has an informative article by Liang Zhen on Chinese independent documentaries, published on the...

Raised From Dust (dir. Gan Xiao'er) Next weekend, the 3rd annual Vancouver New Asia Film Festival will screen Gan Xiao’er’s Raised From...

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Chaochangdi art district, Beijing At RedBox Review, Samantha Culp reports a disturbing development...

Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (dir. Ban Zhongyi) Continuing our recap of the Asia Society series “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,”...

1428 (dir. Du Haibin) In the newest issue of RealTime Arts Magazine, there is a rousing article by Dan Edwards on the significance of...

Survival Song (dir. Yu Guangyi) Doc Alliance, a partnership between five European film festivals, is offering free streaming of five...