Season 2: The Making of Cultures
A Screening Journey 放电影
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In northeast Tibet, a young projectionist travels from one village to another to screen open-air films for the local villagers. Every year he has to screen a specified number of films, selected by China’s State Department. Out of a passion for films, he has been doing this job for eight years, and has established keen audiences everywhere he goes.
Khangai Herds
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Khangai Herds is an observational film about the coexistence of two herding families and the herd animals living amongst them in the Khangai mountains of Mongolia.
Eat Drink Man Woman 飲食男女
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Every Sunday, widowed master chef Mr. Chu prepares a sumptuous banquet for his family. While he has a firm grasp on the fine art of Chinese cuisine, he is less successful when it comes to being a father to his three grown, unmarried daughters, each of whom challenge traditional Chinese values, and are often too busy with their own lives to appreciate their father’s gastronomical expressions of love. As communications breakdown and family bonds are strained, Mr. Chu takes drastic measures to win back his daughters’ affections, with hilarious and poignant results.
Sunless Days 沒有太陽的日子
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Unwilling to make the sort of news reportage that was being continuously aired following the June 4 massacre, in Sunless Days, director Shu Kei turns to his family and friends, producing a very personal document of what the Tiananmen Massacre means, particularly from the perspective of Hong Kong, with the 1997 handover looming.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace 天安门
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A three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square that culminated in the violent government massacre on 3-4 June, The Gate of Heavenly Peace interweaves archival footage and contemporary interviews to examine how the protest movement was shaped by the complex political history of China’s twentieth century.
Yellow Earth 黄土地
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In 1939, Gu Qing, a propaganda cadre in the Eighth Route Army, comes to a poor village on the Yellow Earth Plateau to collect folk songs. There he meets Cui Qiao, a young girl due to enter an arranged marriage. Gu’s tales of an equal Communist society inspire Cui, who asks him to take her to Yan’an to join the army. Gu promises to return to fetch her after getting permission from the Army. But when he fails to return, Cui decides to cross the Yellow River to seek out the army herself.
Morning Sun 八九点钟的太阳
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Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1978). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes—and reflected in the hearts and minds—of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. Others join them in creating in the film’s conversation about the period and the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as the enduring legacy of that period.
The art of regret
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In China photography is sometimes known as ‘the art of regret’...regret for what might be and for what is lost. The film examines photographic practices in the city of Kunming and explores the ambivalence people feel about whether photography should be employed as a medium of documentation and evidence or whether to use new technology to make it one of fantasy and empowerment.
Wild Rose 野玫瑰
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Wild Rose (1932) is one of the earliest leftist films made in Shanghai, starring Wang Renmei and Jin Yan, two prominant actors active in Shanghai cinema of the 1930s. The persistent but ill-fated romance between the two, moving between the countryside, Shanghai's upper-class circle and working-class slum, tells a story of rural and urban difference, class inequality, and the intensification of nationalism amid the colonialist era.
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