By Shelly Kraicer San Yuan Li (dir. Ou Ning, 2003) What is a Chinese film? Ever since I’ve started living and working in Beijing over...

The Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Home of the Chinese Independent Film Archive (Photo courtesy of Iberia Center of Contemporary...

By Shelly Kraicer Photo courtesy of TreeHugger.com It’s always an interesting time to be in China, a place seemingly without...

by Shelly Kraicer The persistence of the past, and the present’s attempts to colonize it, tame it, and re-engineer it, is a remarkable...

Urgency, creativity, relevance, and vitality: four criteria that could sum up the mission of the 3rd annual Beijing Independent Film...