Catalogue des films de « Wang Bing »

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the...

A civil war has been smouldering for decades in Myanmar’s Kokang region, which is home to the Ta’ang people. When their lives are once again in danger in spring 2015, it’s mostly the women and children who flee over the border to China....

In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive...

A documentation of daily life inside of an isolated mental hospital in the southwest of China. Home to about one hundred men, the decrepit institute, with its intimidating fences, houses its patients in grime and seclusion. Aged between twenty and...

Three little sisters, Ying (ten years old), Zhen (six years old) and Fen (four years old) live alone in a small village in the high mountains of the Yunnan region. The father works in the city a few hundred kilometers and the mother has left long...

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 fro, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics.

"The protagonist of this story lives far from the worlds of mind or matter. He is a forty-year-old man with no name. He has built his own conditions of survival. He often goes to neighbouring villages but does not speak with other people. He picks...

In Western China, on the vast, silent plateau of the Gobi, we meet a group of lorry drivers and oil field workers dressed in their red work overalls. Put up in squalid barracks, some of them wake at dawn to get the lorry looking for new oilfields...

Winter in China. A snow shrouded city. Day falls. Wrapped in her coat, a woman advances slowly. She crosses a housing estate then enters her modest apartment. Fengming settles into the armchair in her living room. The camera is placed facing her....

Modern China. On a bright sunny day, on a building site, an industrial complex is being deconstructed. The night falls. The ruins of the factory are empty and silent. The ghosts appear, voices are heard telling their stories...