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.

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 girl “left behind” in ...

By Josh Feola Courtesy of Icarus Films This review contains spoilers. Yang Mingming’s 2012 debut Female Directors, a documentary-style narrative centered on ...

Courtesy of Icarus Films by Maya Rudolph  This review contains spoilers. Tharlo, Pema Tsenden’s noir-inflected romance, is a story of identity, a journey of ...

Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan) The 2014 edition of the Punto de Vista Film Festival of Navarra, Spain, is an international seminar focusing on works of documenta...

Beijing Besieged by Waste (dir. WANG Jiuliang) In the new issue of the journal Environment, Space, Place, Lorna Lueker Zukas of National University reviews W...

The verbal information provided in Wang Jiuliang’s documentary, Beijing Besieged by Waste, is staggering: Beijing, with a population of twenty million, is su...

The Search (dir. Pema Tseden) In the Tibetan news and culture website Phayul, filmmaker and writer Tenzig Sonam published a lengthy assessment of the films b...

When Night Falls (dir. Ying Liang) In the New Yorker, Richard Brody reviews Ying Liang’s award-winning new feature When Night Falls, which has yet to be scre...

Indiewire lends a double dose of coverage to Pema Tseden’s Old Dog on its New York festival premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival. The film screens in New ...