Ghost Town is a critically-acclaimed feature documentary that tells the story of a community 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, now been abandoned to local peasants, and is a ghost town full of life …
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. In each of the stories … Continue reading
“From the very first shot the director demonstrates his ability of telling stories in a visually innovative way,” noted the international jury of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg when they honored Zhao Dayong's first fiction feature with the Werner Fassbinder Prize in November 2010 . . …
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