The Other Half Of The Sky (2016)
• September 22nd, 2016 • 2h 0min
Documentary
Overview
They are four of the most successful businesswomen in China: Belonging to a generation who experienced the austerity of China's cultural revolution, followed by the subsequent economic boom, they have worked their way to the very top in a patriarchal society. Today, Yang Lan is the owner of one of the leading private media companies. Dong Mingzhu is a tenacious female CEO, heading up the world's largest manufacturer of air conditioning systems. Zhang Lan is a tycoon in the luxury restaurant business. Zhou Yi is a top manager working for a big american IT company. How were these careers built? What are the social and economic contexts in which they operate? And what do these women think about the political, social and cultural state of their country?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Real Losers Of The US-China Trade War
Released on: 2021-01-29
Documentary
A 3 year trade war has created corporate casualties in both US and China. In China, a dual circulati...
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Released on: 2014-10-20
Documentary
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors,...
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Released on: 2018-04-28
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Released on: 2005-11-04
Documentary
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families s...
Laboratory Greece
Released on: 2019-12-08
Documentary, History
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr...
i.Mirror by China Tracy
Released on: 2007-06-10
Music, Documentary, Fantasy
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wist...
Chairman for Life
Released on: 2021-03-01
Documentary
China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he...
24 City
Released on: 2008-09-27
Drama, Documentary
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...
Rebellion
Released on: 2019-09-10
Documentary
As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territo...
The Big Squeeze
Released on: 2021-10-06
Documentary
The computer game chain GameStop created so much chaos in the stock market that it forced large hedg...
Women 50 Minutes
Released on: 2007-12-02
Documentary
A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, ...
Mayor of Lowell
Released on: 2025-03-21
Adventure, Documentary, History, War
This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA com...
The Price We Pay
Released on: 2014-09-05
Documentary
A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen m...
The Tea Explorer
Released on:
Documentary
The Tea Explorer documentary follows the journey of tea enthusiast Jeff Fuchs along the Tea Horse Ro...
Cathedrals
Released on: 2014-07-04
Documentary
The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...
Die heimliche Revolution - Frauen in Saudi-Arabien
Released on: 2016-08-20
Documentary
They are clad in the religiously correct abaja, are not allowed to drive and yet still go their own ...
Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best a...
Yulu
Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary
The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fie...