Wang Xiaoshuai
WANG Xiaoshuai (1966, Shanghai) completed his training as a filmmaker in 1988 at the Film Academy of Beijing. He started his career as assistant director at the Fujiang film studio. His second film, Frozen, was made with support from the Hubert Bals Fund. He is widely considered one the most important contemporary Chinese directors.
Filmography
Dongchun de rizi/The Days (1993), Da youxi/Suicides (1994), Jidu hen leng/Frozen (as Wu Ming, 1995), Biandan, Guninag/So Close to Paradise (1997), Shiqi sui de danche/Beijing Bicycle (2000), Menghuan tianyuan/Suburban Dreams (2000), Jeon Jang Keu I Hu/After the war (2001), Er di/Drifters (2003), Qing Hong/Shanghai Dreams (2005), 11 Flowers (2011)
Wang Xiaoshuai op IFFR
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The Days
Wang Xiaoshuai | 75' | China | -
Impressive début about artist couple in Beijing. Relationship is threatened when she thinks about emigrating. -
So Close to Paradise
Wang Xiaoshuai | 90' | China | -
The lives of two childhood friends who have moved to the city to try their luck also get chronically bogged down in their new surroundings.… -
Shanghai Dreams
Wang Xiaoshuai | 120' | China | None
Fancy living in the early 1980s in a rural dump in China still closed off from the outside world. And you have a heartless father… -
Drifters
Wang Xiaoshuai | 120' | China | -
A loafer returns to his Chinese birthplace after being thrown out of the USA. That gives him some status, but doesn’t help dispel the disillusionment. -
11 Flowers
Wang Xiaoshuai | 110' | China | None
Wang Xiaoshuai was one of the first independent Chinese filmmakers to come to Rotterdam. His 11 Flowers is an enchanting paradox. Wang’s most autobiog -
Jidu hanleng
Wang Xiaoshuai | 90' | China | -
Chinese independent film, shotin Peking, follows the young, idealistic yet disillusioned artist Qi decides to make his death his last performance.