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

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

Four ‘fake surveillance videos’, mixed with violent outbursts that are recorded on real security cameras and apparently random shots from everyday Chinese reality: the image of <b>Whose Eyes</b>. Which reality is the most real, and who sees what?<br /><br />