Wang Bing

An elderly woman ex-journalist and writer, He Fengming, talks, straight to the camera, about her experiences after Liberation in 1949. (www.viff.org)

Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China's major industrial regions in his over nine-hour, three-part documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks. From 1999 to 2001, Wang traveled via freight train through the northeast district of Tie Xi. In Part One, the director visits three important factories in Tie Xi that are all on the verge of closure -- a development sure to accelerate the region's economic downturn. (Allmovie)

O Estado do Mundo is a compilation of 6 different short movies, retracting differents views of people above the world, showing people from different continents.

On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and fro, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics... (KG)

An intimate portrait of an anonymous man living in a deserted wasteland in an unnamed part of China. He lives in an underground cave, in a harsh and otherworldly landscape that seems to be entirely cut off from civilization. (IMDB)

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'. (imdb)

Documents a workday at a remote Chinese oil field, from a stolen nap in a break room to the massive drills plunging into the earth. (imdb)

The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing (West of the Tracks) is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province. (tiff.net)

Shot with detailed precision, 'Til Madness Do Us Part documents daily life inside an isolated mental hospital in the southwest of China. (tiff.net)

Happy Valley is a village in the mountains of north-western Yunnan Province, altitude 10,000 feet. A few dozen Han families live there, mainly from potatoes and livestock.

In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. Xiao Min, Ling Ling and Lao Yeh are some of the characters of this bitter chronicle of todays China. (imdb)

A portrayal of the forced migration, which the Ta'ang people need to undergo, caused by an escalating civil war in the mountainous border-regions of Myanmar and China. (imdb)

In 2011, Cai took his two sons to his workplace, a factory in Fuming, where he worked as a stone caster, and found a school for them. Ever since, they have been living in a hut owned by the factory, with only one bed. Filming their life began on February 2nd 2014. On the morning of the 6th, the film crew received threats from the boss and had to stop filming.

Fang Xiu Ying is sixty-seven years old and suffers from Alzheimer's, and yet she slowly understands that her life is coming to an end. Taking place in a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiu Ying deals with the feelings of a person nearing death, as well as the lives of her relatives and neighbors who gather around her to say their final goodbyes. (Letterboxd)

Wang Bing's new documentary is a momentous eight-hour oral history of what truly went on in the Chinese "re-education" camps of the late 1950s. (Variety)

Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. Time and space to meet is missing them. So, they communicate through QQ, MSN China. (imdb)

Gao Ertai, born 1931 is an artist, teacher, activist and philosopher who was imprisoned in the 1950s in a Chinese labor camp. This documentary chronicles his lifelong pursuit of freedom. (imdb)

Wang Xilin, China's most important modern classical composers who was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. Besides having a life of suffering, he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.

Wang Bing's Youth documentary trilogy concludes with migrant factory workers celebrating the New Year with their families. Their cyclical struggle captured over 5 years becomes a poignant portrait of surviving in contemporary rural China. (IMDB)

Neither a purely purely individualistic perspective nor a collective portrait. The second part of Wang Bing’s epic Youth documentary focuses on the problems of workers in the textile workshops of Zhili, fighting to be paid at a just rate – or at all. The second part of Wang Bing’s documentary series Youth moves away from the atmosphere of occasional frivolity within the punishing context of textile workshops in Zhili, China. Focusing entirely on the type of workplaces and cramped living spac