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.

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migran...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

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

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

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

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