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"The storytelling is fluid with a brilliant sense of ellipsis, an essential feature for a medium-length film." reviews NIKAH by Mukkadas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan in favorable comparable light to Jia Zhangke, Wang Bing and Jafar Panahi.
Read: https://asianmoviepulse.com/2024/05/film-review-nikah-mukkadas-mijit-and-bastien-ehouzan/
🎉 🎉 🎉 The VC FILM FEST jury has named NIKAH as the recipient of the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature!
Full press release 🔗 festival.vcmedia.org/2024/2024/05/16/40th-vc-film-fest-announces-award-winners/
Tickets still available for tomorrow's screening at CAAMFest !! 🎟 caamfest.com/2024/movies/nikah/
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: NIKAH, directed by Bastien Ehouzan and Mukaddas Mijit Grand Jury Award...
"We lost Pema at the peak of his artistry, he had so much more to say and to show us. Pema’s loss leaves a giant hole in global cinema and in our community."—Karin Chien, dGenerate Films
"Extraordinary...NIKAH is a glimpse into the shattering of a culture, and shows us the beauty of Uyghur communal life” — The China Project
See new release NIKAH tonight at the Visual Communications Film Festival, screening at The Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Tickets 🎟️ festival.vcmedia.org/2024/movies/nikah/
Also screening later this month as part of CAAMFest at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA. Tickets 🎟️ caamfest.com/2024/movies/nikah/
China's outrage about the Netflix series 3 BODY PROBLEM has been making headlines. Li Yuan at the New York Times compares the beginning of HU Jie's 2007 documentary THOUGH I AM GONE to the new series; THOUGH I AM GONE tells the tragic true story of Bian Zhongyun, who was beaten to death by her own students during the Cultural Revolution.
Available to stream exclusively via OVID ▶️ ovid.tv/videos/though-i-am-gone
Full The New York Times article 🔗 nytimes.com/2024/04/08/business/3-body-problem-china-reaction.html
A day-long, four-film tribute to the Tibetan New Wave’s guiding light Sunday, April 21 Pema Tseden (1969-2023) gave...
Next month will mark one year since the death of Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden. In the Spring 2024 issue of Film Quarterly, Chris Berry pays tribute: "I had known him for over a decade and regarded him as a welcoming friend who always tried to help me understand the situation of Tibetan filmmaking in China whenever I visited. I still find it hard to believe that I will never meet him again."
Read on 🔗 https://filmquarterly.org/2024/03/01/pema-tseden-1969-2023-a-tribute/
✨ ✨✨ San Diego: Don't miss a day-long, four-film tribute coming up later this month: "Through Tibetan Eyes: the Films of Pema Tseden" at 🎟️ sdaff.org/spring2024/guides/through-tibetan-eyes-the-films-of-pema-tseden/
By the time of his sudden and unexpected death in May 2023, the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden had changed the face of cinema from China. He was not only China’s first ethnic Tibetan feature filmmak…
dGenerate Films president & Shorenstein Center fellow Karin Chien in conversation with filmmaker Jian Yi, moderated by The New York Times' Elsie Chen, THIS THURSDAY 4/04, charting the evolution of Chien's work at dGenerate Films, acquiring independent Chinese films and releasing them in the US through a partnership with Icarus Films.
Open to the public. Register to attend in person or online. 🔗 shorensteincenter.org/new-event/chinese-independent-film-distribution-public-interest-media/
dGenerate Films co-founder and president Karin Chien speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center next week, April 4th! 'Chinese Independent Film and Distribution of Public Interest Media' >> register to attend in person or virtually + more info 🔗
Karin Chien charts the evolution of her work at dGenerate Films, acquiring independent Chinese films and releasing them in the US through a partnership with Icarus Films. Karin is a fellow for the Documentary Film in the Public Interest program at the Shorenstein Center.
"Many artists in the era of slow cinema have worked with takes of this duration but few have understood so well how to manage them." Film critic Alex Fields on Liu Jiayin's OXHIDE II. Read more via OVID 🔗 metafilm.ovid.tv/2024/03/05/oxhide-ii/?fbclid=IwAR2ifCpad56q5sBRyl9r61huKH7RLrJvTcw9pqun4mlenot8JFKXa8K_980
A review by Alex Fields. In Oxhide I & Oxhide II, filmmaker Liu Jiayin takes us into a cramped Beijing apartment, casting her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. In the following post, film critic Alex Fields pays particular attention to the second installment, wherein the d...
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This Saturday, 2/24: A NEW OLD PLAY at Doc Films at the University of Chicago + special Q&A with filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong! Tickets 🎟️ bit.ly/42MdTa2
Out today on DVD & digital: Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a "vibrant masterpiece!" (Vogue). - https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-youthspring-0220
It's here! Now available to watch on DVD and digital platforms, New York Times Critic's Pick YOUTH (SPRING) is "an exhortation not to forget the unseen.” YOUTH (SPRING) joins the dGenerate Films Collection at Icarus Films, which now represents seven films by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing.
Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays.
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dGenerate Films co-founder and president Karin Chien highlights six films on Hong Kong included in the dGenerate Films collection, and now all available to stream on indie streaming service OVID.
"These films are radical in their aesthetics and brave in their points of view – and they have changed the way I think about documentary, resistance and crisis narratives."
By Karin Chien Amidst global crises competing for our attention, I value the current attention that is being paid to Hong Kong and its recent protests, coming in part from the splashy new drama series on Amazon Prime, The Expats. If you’re looking for more on Hong Kong, we are proud to offer six...
Wang Bing's epic YOUTH (SPRING) follows the lives of young Chinese garment workers over five years. Coming to DVD, Vimeo On Demand, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, & Icarus Films On Demand. this February. DVD release includes a Q&A with the filmmaker from New York Film Festival 2023!
Watch trailer, request advance press copies, or pre-order your copy now 🔗
Coming to DVD and digital platforms this February, Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays.
New on DVD & Digital 2/20: Wang Bing's epic YOUTH (SPRING) is a "vibrant masterpiece!" (Vogue). Coming to DVD this February, Wang Bing's new documentary follows the lives of young Chinese garment workers. DVD release includes a Q&A with the filmmaker from New York Film Festival 2023! Watch trailer, request advance press copies, or pre-order your copy now - https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-youthspring-0123
Chicago! Don't have Saturday plans yet? Now you do! Rare opportunity to settle in for an afternoon at Gene Siskel Film Center to see Wang Bing's DEAD SOULS (506 minutes!!) — tomorrow, Saturday, January 13th, 2024.
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Chicago! Rare opportunity to settle in for a day at Gene Siskel Film Center to watch Wang Bing's DEAD SOULS (506 minutes!!) — tomorrow, Saturday, January 13th, 2024. Secure your seat now🎟️
Saturday, January 13, 11:00 a.m. | In the harrowing and fearless DEAD SOULS, acclaimed long-form documentarian Wang Bing trains his patient and empathetic lens on the dark history of China's labor camps during the 1957–59 Anti-Rightist Campaign. Unfolding over eight hours, Bing meticulously captur...
Only a few more days of the Icarus Films Year-End Holiday sale! Secure that sweet, sweet 50% discount while you can with promo code HOLIDAY at checkout ✨ 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-holidaysale-121823
Tickets on sale now! Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is screening as part of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Film series The Contenders 2023 next weekend on January 7th, 2024 🎟️
For members at the Explore category and above, tickets will become available two weeks before the screening date, starting at 10:30 a.m. Additional tickets will be available to members and the general public one week before the screening date, also at 10:30 a.m. Please note that space is extremely l...
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👀 Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) returns to NYC next month, screening at Museum of the Moving Image as a Curators' Choice pick! Tickets on sale now! 🎟️
Wang Bing has been constructing epic documentary portraits of the economic condition of China throughout the volatile and transformative twenty-first century.
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In collaboration with dGenerate Films, today OVID launches three experimental films by Tiffany Sia: an artist, filmmaker, and writer looking at the history of colonialism and present-day political turmoil in Hong Kong. Her films have screened at New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Flaherty Film Seminar and elsewhere. Her solo exhibition “Slippery When Wet” debuted in 2021 at Artists Space in New York.
"Much of Sia’s work considers the video remnants of the most recent era of cultural uprising in Hong Kong; what is still accessible and what has been disappeared, cast into a litany of red, dead URLs and porous memory." —Screen Slate
"Made in the roiling scrum of mass protest, the movie resists the temptations of spectacle.... Wary of leering eyes and appetites. This is not prudishness. Rather, it is a consequence of a protracted encounter with the unsexy contours of authoritarian violence." —Artforum
As Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) comes to theaters across the United States, watch his previous documentaries on demand! Including BITTER MONEY, DEAD SOULS, THREE SISTERS, and more -
A leading light of contemporary international documentary filmmaking, Wang Bing is recognized as one of the most important Chinese artists and filmmakers of his time, with his work garnering awards and international praise at film festivals including the Berlinale and Cannes.
"A momentous documentary that pushes the limits of cinema with its observational perspective" —Foremost Film. Full review 🔗 foremostfilm.net/reviews/youth-spring-review
Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is at New York City's Metrograph and at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco! Upcoming in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Nov 17-Nov 23, and in Los Angeles at Acropolis Cinema Nov 18 ✨
Youth (Spring) places its observational focus on the highs and lows of the blossoming young folks who find work in the soul-sapping sweatshops of Zhili, China.
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"Beautifully realized... a pointed study of how the deeds of history remain and resonate through time." —Film Threat | New Release: QIU Jiongjiong's A NEW OLD PLAY is now available to rent or buy on Vimeo-on-Demand, Prime Video, & iTunes. Learn more 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/vod-anewoldplay
"The brightest light in the Chinese independent cinema world at this moment" (Cinemascope), QIU Jiongjiong's A NEW OLD PLAY is a 3-hour epic following the journey of Qiu Yu, a Sichuan opera 'clown,' as he travels through Chinese history. Today, A NEW OLD PLAY premieres on the independent streaming service OVID ▶️ ovid.tv/videos/a-new-old-play
BLUE ISLAND, the new Icarus Films release that bravely portrays Hong Kong's political past and present, will make its U.S. theatrical premiere with an exclusive engagement at New York City's Metrograph beginning on July 29, 2022! With live virtual Intro & Q+A from director Chan Tze Woon on opening night. Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ bit.ly/3O99kOe Full press release 📰 bit.ly/3z7u704 Part of the dGenerate Films Collection at Icarus Films. An Icarus Films release.
Qiu Jiongjiong's A NEW OLD PLAY returns to #NewYorkCity this weekend, with a limited BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND run at Anthology Film Archives, July 1st through 3rd! Get your tickets! 🎟️ bit.ly/3O6V5Ks
This weekend, the US Premiere of A NEW OLD PLAY at two acclaimed North American festivals: Museum of the Moving Image's #FirstLookFest: Friday, March 18th & Saturday, March 26th 🎟️ bit.ly/3tdp1fV Locarno In Los Angeles at Acropolis Cinema: Saturday, March 19th 🎟️ bit.ly/35THdCF
This weekend’s @thenyff screenings of @junewdoc’s ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS may be💔 SOLD OUT 💔but standby tickets will be available! Patience is a virtue and Wang’s incredible debut is not to be missed! More info at: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/films/all-about-my-sisters/
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