FILMS
Du Haibin
1428
Du Haibin's award-winning documentary of the earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province in 2008 explores how victims, citizens and government respond to a national tragedy.
2009
Wang Jiuliang
BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE
Wang Jiuliang travels to more than 500 landfills, documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption.
2011
Bo Wang
CHINA CONCERTO
An observational essay about public spectacles in contemporary China.
2012
Li Yifan and Yan Yu
BEFORE THE FLOOD
The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.
2005
Yang Heng
BETELNUT
Along a sleepy Hunan riverside, two delinquent boys experience a summer of love and violence in Yang Heng’s visually stunning debut.
2005
Wang Bing
DEAD SOULS
Dead Souls documents the testimony of survivors of the hard-labor camp in the Gobi Desert in Gansu, China.
2018
Yan Yu
BEFORE THE FLOOD II - GONG TAN
Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.
2008
Wang Bing
BITTER MONEY
Documents China's rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou to work in its textile factories.
2016
Rachel Tejada
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
Six documentary shorts chronicle the changing state of China's independent, and underground, film scene.
2008