IFFR 2012

With a painter’s eye, the filmmaker portrays a poor, simple man caring for his sick father. Bitter beauty. An exquisite impression of two men who live the way many millions of Chinese do. Not everyone gets to share the new wealth.

Signals: Hidden Histories

Apuda

Ordos 100

By far the longest film ever shown in Rotterdam - 150 hours! A car with a camera drives down every street inside Peking’s ring road. One of four Ai Weiwei art videos that will be shown alongside his activist, social documentaries.Do 26-Za 4, 12:00-20:00, continuous screening , Ai Weiwei Café/Power Cut Installations, Karel Doormanstraat 278.

Beijing 2003

In his third film on life and work in the (once) heavily wooded north of China, Yu Guangyi (Survival Song) follows the lonely San Liangzi (46), who for the past ten years has been in love with a woman who doesn’t like men much. Intimate and revealing, but never rude.

Bachelor Mountain

The young filmmaker Zhao Yantao is surprised about how Tibetan pilgrims exhaust themselves while making their strange journey to the great temples of their country. He is similarly surprised by his fellow countrymen who go to Tibet as tourists but know hardly anything about Tibetan culture.<br /><br />

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

The Road Toward Jokhang

Signals: Hidden Histories

Apuda

Bachelor Mountain

Beijing 2003