A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Director:
Yung Chang
Stars:
Jerry Bo Yu Chen,
Campbell Ping He,
Cindy Shui Yu
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
Director:
James Marsh
Stars:
Nim Chimpsky,
Stephanie LaFarge,
Herbert Terrace
Starts at the end of the story, with the brutal murder by a man of his wife and daughters. Hui gradually unmasks the idyll of the peaceful family and that of Hong Kong as the promised land for gold seekers.
Director:
Ann Hui
Stars:
Simon Yam,
Jingchu Zhang,
Ariel Hiu-Man Chan
A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
It's a story about post-90 generation in China and how they chasing their dreams through a talent show. The summer of 2013 saw a group of young boys enter a Chinese TV talent show called ... See full summary »
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
I was born in GuangZhou, China, where the movie was partially made. I worked with those who left hometown to China big cities to work. Given that, i can tell you that the movie is telling us a real story, and showing a true face of The GuangZhou Railway station. For more than 10 years, one horrible place to visit is the GuangZhou Railway Station---dirty, crowded, a lot of thieves, toilets not enough...
I guess this movie is very for for us to show the next generation who would be brought up in Canada. They then shall understand why GuangZhou people are eager to go overseas. This movie is also good for those who never visit China, as most of the time, the medias tend to show the good stories, not the truth.
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I was born in GuangZhou, China, where the movie was partially made. I worked with those who left hometown to China big cities to work. Given that, i can tell you that the movie is telling us a real story, and showing a true face of The GuangZhou Railway station. For more than 10 years, one horrible place to visit is the GuangZhou Railway Station---dirty, crowded, a lot of thieves, toilets not enough...
I guess this movie is very for for us to show the next generation who would be brought up in Canada. They then shall understand why GuangZhou people are eager to go overseas. This movie is also good for those who never visit China, as most of the time, the medias tend to show the good stories, not the truth.