Chinese documentaries
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The cultural revolution revisited
Tensions rise and tears are shed while we follow young Chinese actors trained as Mao Zedong’s Red Guards reliving the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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ROTTERDAM 2012: Observing China
As documents in pure direct cinema, Willemien Sanders looks at Chinese docs shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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LI YIFAN: We Need to Get Things Organised
Interest in Chinese documentaries is on the rise. Both this year’s Leipzig Doc Festival and cph:dox featured Chinese retrospectives and they had plenty of independently produced Chinese docs to pick from.