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Bingai

With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River will have been to be dislocated. The majority of them are farmers. BINGAI features one woman farmer who refuses to move away from her village. The audience will follow her seven-year struggle with officials who pressure her to relocate, while a strong devotion to her land compels her to remain in the place she calls home.

Using

As a journalist, the director encountered a small group of people who invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. Three years later, the film's key figure faces death penalty for the crime of "transporting drugs", the kind of story to be found in big cities across the world. Just what exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed? USING has the answer.

Crime & Punishment

This film follows young policemen's lives on China's North Korean border. As they carry out their duties, they meet up with a motley group of characters. The fierce competition for promotion among these young officers is also captured. Chinese society, in all of its absurdity and pathos, marches onward, but the machinery of the state seems stuck in place.

Xiao Jia Going Home

JIA Zhangke is considered as one of the major Chinese filmmaker of all time. XIAO JIA GOING HOME is certainly the most accurate testimony on his creative work so far. After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, Jia returns to his hometown. The return to his roots and the reflections on the intertwined life and work reveal a man in constant search for freedom.

Survival Song

In the snowbound wilderness of China's northeastern mountain range, we find an unusual family: a hunter, his wife, a vagrant named Xiao Li, two dogs and one cat. They live together in a decrepit house in an abandoned logging camp, miles from the nearest village. When the government begins clearing away houses to build a reservoir that will supply drinking water, the hunter and his household are asked to move...

Utopia

There's a place called Qianshan Township in China. Far away from city, villagers had to live on surface water. Many women gave birth to retarded children because of the water problem. Clean water was provided later on but the large number of mentally handicapped children became a social problem...

A Dream in Empty City

The outside world doesn't exist, all that exists is inside the ward of a hospital for terminally ill patients; The camera is patiently recording an old man, whose life activities can only be carried out in his bed. Most of the shots are close or medium range; a face or an expression, after contemplating for a long while, one cannot help but think of that Japannese phrase,"Eyes before death." Yet, one must also listen patiently...