Zhang Yuan
ZHANG Yuan (China, 1963) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy. Zhang produced and directed his feature début Mama in 1990. He was selected by Time Magazine in 1994 as one of the hundred young world leaders for the next century. A year later he made Sons, which won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam.
Filmography
Mama/Mother (1991), Beijing zazhong/Beijing Bastards (1992), Guangchang/The Square (1994), Erzi/Sons (1995), Dong Gong Xi Gong/East Palace West Palace (1996), Ding Zi Hu/Demolition and Relocation (1998, short doc), Fengkuan yingyu/Crazy English (1999), Guonian hujia/Seventeen Years (1999), Jin Xing Xiaojie/Miss Jin Xing (2000, short doc), Hainan Hainan (2002), Wo ai ni/I Love You (2002), Lü cha/Green Tea (2002), Jiangjie/Jiang Jie (2002), Kan shang qu hen mei/Little Red Flowers (2006), Dada/Dada's Dance (2008)
Zhang Yuan op IFFR
Mama
80'
China
IFFR 1992
Music videos
15'
China
IFFR 1992
Beijing Bastard (Work in Progress)
50'
China
IFFR 1993
Beijing Bastards
95'
China
IFFR 1994
Fei-Le
8'
China
IFFR 1995
Guangchang
100'
China
IFFR 1995
Erzi
95'
China
IFFR 1996
East Palace, West Palace
90'
China
IFFR 1998
Seventeen Years
90'
China
IFFR 2000
I Love You
98'
China
IFFR 2003
Green Tea
83'
China
IFFR 2004
Dada's Dance
92'
China
IFFR 2009