Signals: Hidden Histories
Overview of films
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When the Bough Breaks
Experienced documentary filmmaker becomes involved in the lives of the children of a family trying to survive in their jury rigged shanty stuck in
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The Road Toward Jokhang
Ostensibly merely a brief, amusing portrayal of the culture clash between Tibetan pilgrims and Chinese tourists, but in China even just the word Ti
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Shattered
Xu Tong continues his enervating, sometimes controversial reporting on the morals of the Chinese underclass. In the lead role, an 80-year-old, reti
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So Sorry
Corrupt builders and officials were to blame for the high number of dead schoolchildren after the Sichuan earthquake. This secret would have been b
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Whose Eyes
Daily life as seen by surveillance cameras. Well actually, as seen by leading experimental filmmaker Tan Tan. Screened before Shattered.
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Bachelor Mountain
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
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One Old Man
The filmmaker is also a photographer and needs no words to show that poverty and beauty are not mutually exclusive, using a farmer who is too old t
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One Recluse
Ai Weiwei follows the trial against a man suspected of killing six cops. Ai is not interested in whether he did it, but in the background and motiv
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Chang’an Boulevard
A 10-hour film (short in comparison to the 150 hours of Beijing 2003), which systematically records Chang’an Boulevard and its traffic. The f
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Beijing: The Third Ring
Even more systematic than Google Street View, the maker records some of rapidly-changing Peking’s overwhelming traffic. This time on sunny days. On
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Lost in the Mountain
Four friends hike into the mountains in search of another friend who has been missing for some time. They may not even hope to find him, but they d
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Born in Beijing
The subject is raw, poignant and dirty: the poverty-stricken lives of a group of petitioners (people whose rights have been violated by local gover