Born in Beijing
This is a peculiar work, a bizarre place, a group of bigoted people and a unique vicissitudes of life. MA Li, the director, devoted six years to going deep into the petitioner village, a humble...
When the Bough Breaks
A group of migrant children have grown up next to a rubbish dumpsite in Daxing in the southern suburbs of Beijing. As high- rise buildings begin to encroach upon their shanty settlement and threaten...
Satiated Village
In ZOU Xueping's first feature, The Starving Village, ZOU interviewed residents of her hometown about their experiences during a famine that killed tens of millions. In this follow-up, ZOU tries to...
The Last Moose of Aoluguya
The moose of the Daxinganling Mountains in Northeast China possess great strength and majesty though their habitat is disappearing. The Ewenki tribe is forced to abandon their homes. Weijia, an...
Children's Village
This film is the third of the People's Memory Project. In the beginning of 2012, I began gathering statistics of deaths during the Three Year Famine. Children of ten to fifteen years old voluntarily...
Little Proletarian
14-year-old Haier has been kicked out of school. He instead spends his time stealing, fighting and terrorising the village with his motorcycle gang. His father tries to brutally beat some sense into...
Sea of Youth– Four Correspondence Course Students
Sea of Youth was OGAWA Shinsuke's first directorial effort. After leaving Iwanami Productions, he struck an unusual path. He gathered young activists to make an independent documentary on the plight...
Forest of Oppression – A Record of the Struggle at Takasaki City University of Economics
After Sea of Youth, the filmmakers turned themselves into a fully- fledged collective - Jieiso, the precursor to Ogawa Productions and created an alternative distribution system. Their next film,...