Signals: Hidden Histories
Overview of films
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One Recluse
Ai Weiwei | 180' | China | None
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… -
Ordos 100
Ai Weiwei | 61' | China | World premiere
Ai Weiwei has become renowned for his political activities and famous as the inventor of the Bird’s Nest stadium in Peking. Working with those same… -
The Road Toward Jokhang
Zhao Yantao | 19' | China | International premiere
Ostensibly merely a brief, amusing portrayal of the culture clash between Tibetan pilgrims and Chinese tourists, but in China even just the word Tibet -
Shattered
Xu Tong | 100' | China | None
Xu Tong continues his enervating, sometimes controversial reporting on the morals of the Chinese underclass. In the lead role, an 80-year-old, retired -
So Sorry
Ai Weiwei | 55' | China | World premiere
Corrupt builders and officials were to blame for the high number of dead schoolchildren after the Sichuan earthquake. This secret would have been buri -
The Unfinished History of Life
Cong Feng | 245' | China | European premiere
The filmmaker spent years in a Chinese village to record daily life’s every detail. He drank many a glass with the villagers and observed them… -
When the Bough Breaks
Ji Dan | 144' | China | International premiere
Experienced documentary filmmaker becomes involved in the lives of the children of a family trying to survive in their jury rigged shanty stuck in bet -
Whose Eyes
Tan Tan | 15' | China | International premiere
Daily life as seen by surveillance cameras. Well actually, as seen by leading experimental filmmaker Tan Tan. Screened before Shattered.