Overview of articles
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Beijing Bastards
Impressionist portrait of Beijing’s rock generation. Banned in China. Made with aid from the Hubert Bals Fund.Published on: -
Stand up, don’t grovel!
Social satire plays with today’s themes: nouveau riche, the declining power of the Party and a flabby intellectual class.Published on: -
The peach blossom land
Refined portrait of a theatre group rehearsing a play about a dying man and his memories of a great love in 1948 in Shanghai.Published on: -
No more applause
Social criticism and farcical humour when the housing shortage forces a divorced couple to stay on in the same flat.Published on: -
The story of Xinghua
The male obsession with money and daughters leads to destruction. Colourful drama sides with Chinese women.Published on: -
Grandpa Ge
Beautiful feature about old man who stoically clings on to his own lifestyle. Actor from JU DOU.Published on: -
The blue kite
Banned in China. Story of a woman who loses three husbands. Seen through the eyes of her child against the background of politics in the…Published on: -
King Chau and Lady Yu
1981 TV version of story on which Chen Kaige based his FAREWELL TO MY CONCUBINE.Published on: -
I have graduated
Student at Beijing Film School interviews fellow students who were active on Tiananmen Square in 1989.Published on: -
Discussions caused by a film’s filming being stopped
Documentary about the Chinese authorities stopping filming by Zhang Yuan (director of MAMA and BEIJING BASTARDS).Published on: