By Isabella Tianzi Cai "The Transition Period" shows the inner workings of local politics in China U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke’s...

"No. 89 Shimen Road" director Shu Haolun Congratulations to writer-director Shu Haolun, whose new film No. 89 Shimen Road just won the...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Assembly line workers at Foxconn manufacturing facility subcontracted to Apple (photo: Kotaku) A man, a plan,...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai The State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) of China took the country’s most popular talent...

Chinese directors Zhu Wen (L) and Liu Jiayin (R) pose during a photocall at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Picture: AFP The nine-day...

Oxhide (dir. Liu Jiayin) On the Cine-File website, a comprehensive and highly selective guide to movie screenings in the Chicagoland...

Dong (dir. Jia Zhangke) By Ariella Tai As part of a larger feature on the films of director Jia Zhangke at Not Coming to a Theater Near...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai ”] The older Chinese generation, who have lived through the founding of the New China, the Great Leap Forward...

By Ariella Tai Water being released from the Three Gorges Dam in central China's Hubei province. The state council has admitted the dam...

Over at Fandor, our own Kevin Lee has a piece on Jian Yi’s Super, Girls!, coinciding with the finale of American Idol Season 10, airing...

We are pleased to announce the release of ten new titles on Institutional DVD, and the release of four titles on Home DVD. These titles...

By Kevin B. Lee In conjunction with the screening series New Tales of Chinese Cinema screening this weekend at the Museum of the Moving...

Disorder (dir. Huang Weikai) In the current issue of Film Comment, Chris Chang labels Huang Weikai’s experimental documentary Disorder a...

By Carlo Labrador-Pangalangan Li Ning accepts the Silver Award at YunFest for his film “Tape” Tape, directed by Li Ning, will screen this...

Oxhide II (dir. Liu Jiayin) In the lead-up to the ten-film, five-venue series “Between Disorder and Unexpected Pleasures: New Chinese...

By Zhang Xianmin Zhang Xianmin Following his recent critique on the state of Chinese cinema “Daytime Booze Nighttime Party,” Chinese film...

By Dan Edwards Ou NIng In addition to being an artist, curator, writer, and director of the Shao Foundation, China’s cultural renaissance...

By Dan Edwards Using (dir. Zhou Hao) Southern Metropolis Daily has a proud reputation as one of the very few newspapers in mainland China...

By Kevin B. Lee As part of our screenings of Chinese independent documentaries at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight, we have produced video...

Fortune Teller (dir. Xu Tong) In the New York Times, Larry Rohter profiles the Chinese independent film movement, with special attention...