Latest News and Reviews of ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS by Wang Qiong
ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS, the debut feature documentary film by Wang Qiong, is officially eligible for Best Documentary consideration at the...
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dGenerate Films
- Mar 1, 2021
Rave Reviews of LOST COURSE
Opening at Film at Lincoln Center, BAMPFA and Laemmle Theaters on March 5.
dGenerate Films
- Jul 18, 2020
Re-emergence of Fanhall Films: An Interview with Zhu Rikun
ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.
dGenerate Films
- Jul 5, 2020
Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time (NY Times)
The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.
dGenerate Films
- Jul 5, 2020
The Art of Survival in Modern Chinese Documentary
Many Chinese documentary-makers have spent the last decade exploring the human cost of destruction.
dGenerate Films
- Jun 16, 2020
Interview with Yi Cui on “Through the Looking Glass”
Yi Cui’s “Through the Looking Glass” is a powerful short that reflects the agency of indigenous filmmakers.
dGenerate Films
- May 16, 2020
Defeating the Notion of a Coherent Path to Mastery: Wang Bing's "Dead Souls"
Certainly, it's impossible to watch a film of Wang’s and be left indifferent; each leaves a great impression.
dGenerate Films
- May 9, 2020
Mothers and Daughters and the Chaos of Relationships: A Review of "Girls Always Happy"
What’s audacious about Yang’s movie is her clear-eyed acceptance of the chaos of relationships. There will be no easy resolution.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 29, 2020
OXHIDE's Narrative of Refraction and the Dreamy Daze of WINTER VACATION
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.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 26, 2020
5 Documentaries That Captivate China's Creative Life
Regardless of location, tradition or political particularities, artists’ lives the world over carry as many similarities as not.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 26, 2020
Strange Magic: A Review of Rotterdam Winner 'The Widowed Witch'
The winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s prestigious Tiger Award in 2018 subtly turns the genre’s conventions on their head.
dgeneratefilms
- Apr 24, 2020
HIGH PLAINS DREAMER: OUR REVIEW OF ‘JINPA’ (4.5 out of 5 stars on intheseats.ca)
Pema Tseden’s entire body of work [creates] a hyper-real interconnected universe of stories and characters representing modern Tibet.
dgeneratefilms
- Apr 14, 2020
What Chinese Independent Cinema Can Tell Us About Confinement as Everyday Social Reality
The lack of freedom isn’t the point. If so, what more is there to say as an independent artist in China?
dGenerate Films
- Feb 1, 2020
Why I Had A Hard Time Watching American Factory
American and Chinese audiences face a similar challenge: in a landscape controlled by government-mandated censorship and corporate-driven co
dGenerate Films
- Dec 23, 2019
RADII: 25 Films From the 2010s That Will Help You Understand China
A terrific, madly varied list that includes propaganda blockbusters and wildly indie films like dGenerate Films title "Girls Always Happy."
dGenerate Films
- Dec 17, 2019
Chinese Documentaries at IDFA Narrow in on Character-Driven Narratives
Smog Town and Our Time Machine make clear the invisible line that Chinese documentaries, made in and for China, must navigate.
dgeneratefilms
- Mar 6, 2017
Huang Ji (Egg and Stone) debuts latest feature at Berlinale
Huang Ji’s 2012 debut feature, Egg and Stone, shows the world of rural Chinese life through a perspective seldom seen, that of a young...
dgeneratefilms
- Dec 1, 2016
Review: Yang Mingming’s Female Directors
By Josh Feola Courtesy of Icarus Films This review contains spoilers. Yang Mingming’s 2012 debut Female Directors, a documentary-style...
dgeneratefilms
- Sep 28, 2016
Review of Pema Tseden’s Tharlo
Courtesy of Icarus Films by Maya Rudolph This review contains spoilers. Tharlo, Pema Tsenden’s noir-inflected romance, is a story of...
dgeneratefilms
- Feb 17, 2014
Punto de Vista Film Festival Celebrates Films of Pema Tseden
Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan) The 2014 edition of the Punto de Vista Film Festival of Navarra, Spain, is an international seminar focusing...
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