Wang Bing Movies
- 2024
Youth (Homecoming)
Youth (Homecoming)02024HD
Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s...
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks7.62003HD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...
- 2023
Youth (Spring)
Youth (Spring)6.82023HD
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...
- 2010
The Ditch
The Ditch7.132010HD
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao...
- 2007
The State of the World
The State of the World5.22007HD
An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.
- 2014
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema7.1252014HD
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through...
- 2016
Ta'ang
Ta'ang5.62016HD
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have...
- 2018
Dead Souls
Dead Souls7.1942018HD
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as...
- 2019
Wang Bing, Tendre Cinéaste Du Chaos Chinois
Wang Bing, Tendre Cinéaste Du Chaos Chinois02019HD
Wang Bing is one of the greatest documentary-makers alive today, and his films offer a very insightful overview of the transformations occurring in...
- 2014
'Til Madness Do Us Part
'Til Madness Do Us Part6.72014HD
An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone,...
- 2009
Tiananmen
Tiananmen02009HD
It's 1949 and Tiananmen Square is a mess. Overgrown with weeds and thoroughly dilapidated it looks like hell, but it's where Chairman Mao wants to...
- 2009
Coal Money
Coal Money6.52009HD
On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and...
- 2024
Youth (Hard Times)
Youth (Hard Times)02024HD
In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation...
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Rust
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Rust82003HD
The first portion, "Rust," follows a group of factory workers in three state-run factories: a smelting plant, an electric cable factory and a sheet...
- 2010
Man With No Name
Man With No Name6.12010HD
The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to...
- 2023
Man in Black
Man in Black7.3752023HD
Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution,...
- 2008
Crude Oil
Crude Oil7.22008HD
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Venice 70: Future Reloaded5.32013HD
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...
- 2017
Mrs. Fang
Mrs. Fang62017HD
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced...
- 2010
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
The Ways of the World: Vol. 102010HD
A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23...