Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 year-old veteran of the Chinese Red Army, who calmly relates how he has navigated his country’s turbulent history over three-quarters of a century.Born to a wealthy family in a foreign concession, Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project, and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deep-rooted corruption.

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock m...

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migran...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jac...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland...

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the...