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11/08/2024

The third and final installment in Wang Bing's trilogy, YOUTH (HOMECOMING) opens tonight at Metrograph!

“We’re drawn into their world, and that’s what makes the YOUTH movies so appealing: the takes are very long, and we get to dwell inside the frame.’ —Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

Tickets 🎟️ https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999004012&v=0b3b97fa6688
Review 🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/movies/youth-homecoming-wang-bing.html

In the finale of Wang Bing’s nonfiction trilogy, garment-factory workers return to their families and wrestle with the questions all young people do.

10/31/2024

YOUTH (HARD TIMES) is a New York Times Critic’s Pick! “To watch them toil away despite thankless conditions is to admire their resilience but also feel their time being lost.”

Opening tomorrow November 1st at Metrograph NYC

Tickets 🎟️ https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999004011&v=0b3b97fa6688
Review 🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/movies/youth-hard-times-review-working-till-they-drop.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In Wang Bing’s riveting new documentary about Chinese garment workers, a generation asks: What good is money when you have no rights?

10/31/2024

NYT Critic’s Pick! “To watch them toil away despite thankless conditions is to admire their resilience but also feel their time being lost.” Nicolas Rapold on Wang Bing’s YOUTH (HARD TIMES) opening at Metrograph tomorrow November 1st! Get your tickets 🎞️🎟️🎟️🎞️

10/18/2024

Shot between 2015 and 2019 in the textile factories of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in northern Zhejiang province, which rely on the grueling labor of hundreds of thousands of young migrant workers drawn from the provincial countryside, Wang’s Youth Trilogy is a verité saga exploring the indi...

10/08/2024

This month, Metrograph presents Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy, Wang Bing’s monumental three-part documentary portrait, with the filmmaker in attendance for a special ONE-NIGHT-ONLY return screening of YOUTH (SPRING) on October 12th, and an advance double-feature preview of YOUTH (HARD TIMES) and YOUTH (HOMECOMING), both on October 20th at Metrograph In Theater. YOUTH (HARD TIMES) and YOUTH (HOMECOMING) will begin their North American premiere theatrical engagements on November 1st and November 8th respectively. Get your tickets before they sell out!

An Icarus Films release, from the dGenerate Film Collection 🎞️

10/04/2024

Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy Comes to Metrograph this Month!
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08/12/2024

Following last year's successful release of the critically acclaimed YOUTH (SPRING), Icarus Films and the dGenerate Films collection are proud to announce the acquisition of exclusive North American distribution rights for the next two chapters of Wang Bing's epic YOUTH trilogy, YOUTH (HARD TIMES) and YOUTH (HOMECOMING).

Both films will have their North American premiere in the Wavelengths section of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival TIFF. Both have also been selected for the Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival , where they will have their U.S. premiere.

Full press release: https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/youth_hard-times_homecoming?e=82c8071bfa

Films will premiere in Locarno, Venice.

08/06/2024

05/20/2024

"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/

05/18/2024

🎉 🎉 🎉 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...

05/08/2024

"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

05/02/2024

"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/

04/19/2024

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

04/17/2024

A day-long, four-film tribute to the Tibetan New Wave’s guiding light Sunday, April 21 Pema Tseden (1969-2023) gave...

04/10/2024

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…

04/02/2024

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/