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...

Fujian Blue (dir. Robin Weng) Concluding our recap of the Asia Society series “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” here is an...

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

Little Moth (dir. Peng Tao) Continuing our recap of the Asia Society series “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” here is an...

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” the recently concluded film series at the Asia Society, yielded...

Ghost Town (dir. Zhao Dayong) As part of its national tour, Zhao Dayong’s acclaimed documentary Ghost Town is screening for a week in...

1428 (dir. Du Haibin) Du Haibin‘s documentary 1428 received an enthusiastic review in Variety. Reviewer Ronnie Scheib writes: The title...

Liu Jiayin In our one-of-a-kind poll of the Best Chinese Films of the 2000s, Oxhide, director Liu Jiayin’s quiet, homemade do-it-yourself...

Ghost Town (dir. Zhao Dayong) Following its triumphant US Premiere at the 2009 New York Film Festival, Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town will...

Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival) One of our key partners in China is Zhang Xianmin, who is a leading figure...

Xiaodai Muyi (photo courtesy of Worldwide Mr. Gay) Following up on the saga that unfolded last month over the Mr. Gay China pageant, it...

In Oxhide, director Liu Jiayin stretches time so effectively that you can feel the weight of years on the shoulders of a leather handbag...

City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) The New York Times reports that the Film Forum, one of the leading specialty theaters in New York...

dGenerate Films is teaming up with the Apple Store in Beijing to present a new monthly series to showcase China’s newest filmmakers...

Petition (dir. Zhao Liang) In the recent Top Ten Chinese Films of the 2000s poll, one of the top-ranked documentaries was Zhao Liang’s...

Here are some choice excerpts from the interview. The full interview can be found at Offscreen. Offscreen: My first question is about...

Zhao Dayong achieves an extraordinary intimacy with his subjects, no doubt partly due to the amount of time he spent living in the town,...

What do this: and this: have in common? Apparently, they are both images of urban gentrification in China. The top image is from James...

The Associated Press reports that police shut down China’s first ever gay pageant, “Mr. Gay China” an hour before it was set to begin....

Image courtesy of Shanghaist The Guardian reports on Mr. Gay China, the first gay pageant to ever be held in China: “We are intelligent,...