The High Life opens with a raw contrast of poetics and imprisonment that can be glimpsed throughout the film, as a female inmate in a bleak correction facility reads aloud the verses of Officer Dian Qiu to a table of inmates folding cellophane flowers as part of their forced labor....Read More
A policeman locks himself and an mélange of willing characters into an iron cage situated in a dim and cavernous warehouse. Conversations haltingly unfold among the characters, until finally the policeman decides to open up and share his dog-eared book of personal poetry with his fellow inmates....Read More
My Father's House explores the booming African community in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou through the turbulent story of an underground church founded by Nigerian missionary Daniel Michael Enyeribe. The film begins with the voice of Pastor Daniel as he tells the story of his revelation in his native Nigeria....Read More
Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of China’s economic might. The film centers on Nanjing Road, one of China’s oldest commercial streets and today a popular destination for tourists and moneyed Chinese....Read More
Ghost Town is a three-part feature documentary telling the stories of a community of Lisa and Nu ethic minorities living in a remote town in China's southwest Yunnan province, on the border of Tibet and Burma. Once a vibrant county seat, the town of Zhiziluo has now been abandoned to local peasants....Read More
Lantern Films China is a Hong Kong-based film company dedicated to the production and support of independent documentary and art films in China. The company was founded in 2008 by Guangzhou filmmaker Zhao Dayong and award-winning American journalist David Bandurski.... Read More