By Isabella Tianzi Cai The Seventh China Independent Film Festival will be held in Nanjing from October 21 to 25. The screenings will be...

Nail Household Fighting Against Demolition Squad by Sara Beretta Sometimes reality exceeds the virtual, in its absurdity, strangeness and...

Al-Jazeera produced this interesting investigative piece on Chinese businessmen and migrants living and working in Senegal,...

The Ditch (dir. Wang Bing) The 67th Venice Film Festival concluded last weekend; this year’s edition was not without the venue’s...

By Shelly Kraicer Buried (dir. Wang Libo) It’s been earthquake movie season in China ever since the terrible Wenchuan earthquake that...

by Isabella Tianzi Cai dGenerate Films got a mention in Mitch Moxley’s article, “Now Showing – Independent Films,” at Inter Press Service...

Lesbian wedding in China (Photo from crtv.nl) by Isabella Tianzi Cai In a “Letter from China” column for the New York Times on September...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai In the article, Teng gives a comprehensive overview of the civic documentary movement in China for the past few...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai and Kevin B. Lee Aftershock (dir. Feng Xiaogang) The 1976 Tangshan Earthquake was one of the worst natural...

Portrait of Mozambique President Armando Guebuza in a Chinese restaurant (Photo: Ella Raidel, IFF Rotterdam) The International Film...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Han Han (photo: China Digital Times) Ranked as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in a 2010 survey by...

The Festival announced its awards for the following films (with citations by the jury in quotes): Independent Spirit Award Spiral...

Memorial flowers left at Google's China headquarters (image source: The Shanghaist) On The China Beat, Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson give a...

Super, Girls! (dir. Jian Yi) This recent article on CNN caught our eye, as it deals with what may be an emerging next wave of the digital...

Fan Lixin, director of Last Train Home (Photo by Nan Chalat Noaker/Park Record) One of the most acclaimed films at this year’s Sundance...

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 Sixth China Independent Film Festival (CIFF) will be held in Nanjing from October 12-16th, 2009. Here’s a listing of their screening...

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...

dGenerate Films head honcho Karin Chien reminisces on the how this company came to be. Read parts 1 and 2 of this three part series. My...