She, a Chinese (2009)
The inner and exterior journey of a young woman in the landscape of village and city, East and West, love and desire. This film won the Golden Leopard at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival.
Once upon a time Proletarian (2009)
Sister film to
She, a Chinese, this documentary attempts a subjective anatomy of contemporary China in the post Marxist era. It premieres at the Venice Film Festival 2009 and has been shown at Rotterdam and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
We Went to Wonderland (2008)
Two elderly Chinese communists arrive in the rundown East End of London and comment the Western Wonderland from their astonished Chinese perspective.The film which premiered at the Rotterdam IFFR was immediately picked for the prestigious New Directors/New Films series of the MoMa / Lincoln Film Society in New York.
How Is Your Fish Today? (2006)
A writer's dreamed trip between city and village, reality and fiction, in a chaotic contemporary China.
How Is Your Fish Today? explores the way we imagine reality, the way a writer plays with his subject and his story telling, and suggests how one's life gains meaning and weight through imagination.
The Concrete Revolution (2004)
A meditation on the price paid for the building of the new China. This film essay starts with unemployed peasants rushing into Beijing to work on the demolition and construction of the city. New China uses these people's desperation to realize its huge ambitions. But the workers don't belong in Beijing, and Beijing has no place for them either. They long to return home.As China sends rockets into space and prepares to host the 2008 Olympics, this poetic film essay shows a crucial turning point in China's history, and captures a rapidly disappearing past and erosion of its roots.
Film Awards
Golden Leopard (Grand Prix) in International Competition, Locarno International Film Festival 2009.
Grand Prix, Créteil International Women Film Festival 2007; nominated at Sundance Film Festival 2007; special mentions at the Rotterdam Film Festival's Tiger Award 2007, the Pesaro Film Festival 2007 and the Fribourg Film Festival 2007.
Grand Prix, International Human Rights Film Festival, Paris 2005;Special Jury Prize at EBS International Documetary Festival, Seoul 2005
Beck's Future Prize 2003, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London