A travelling theatre company tours rural China to perform Szechuan operas. Struggling with the authorities, family disputes and worries of losing their livelihood – a shrill and colourful swan song.
The image of China as a music nation is dominated by drilled masses and exceptional instrumentalists. This accordion class, however, presents a different image.
Animal-human hybrids drag wheelbarrows filled with collected finds through post-apocalyptic urban ruins.
What looks like a music video at first glance turns out at a closer look to be a political film. In a society geared towards productivity and efficiency a thinking person will soon become an outsider. ...
An imaginary football match played by blue and red ink figures: attack – defence – goal. And one injured player.
Mobile phones are the only connection to the outside world the workers of this Chinese asbestos mine have. Everyday routines, hard work, dreams and laughter in a smoking apocalyptic landscape.
Ten-year-old Yanxuan lives in the South Chinese Mountains and loves what every girl loves: singing and dancing like the stars on television. Her greatest wish, though, is to celebrate her birthday with the whole family.
A former underground fighter for the Algerian Liberation Front FLN embarks on a painful journey of remembrance. A reflection on killing in times of war.
The little boy Hong Longlong saves a city from flooding by jumping through a toilet bowl into space and putting on the rain cloud like a hat.
Overgrown urban wasteland with forgotten objects, stairs, railways leading nowhere, a dripping moon – Yuan Gao’s paintings are straight objective representations of the unspeakable und uncertain.
Apathy has infected a world confronted with the apocalypse. Amid this planetary desolation a group of three players still want to play mah-jong. Their problem: they can´t because they are one player short.
A scene is dissected into its component parts, a plot dissolved into snapshots. A trap, a blow from behind. The crash, the fall …
Fourteen-year-old Ma Xiang leaves his home and works in a foreign metropolis as a noodle puller to pay off his father’s debts. Work is hard, growing up is hard.
