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Films are available for educational use on DVD and through digital download, for public performance screenings on BetaSP or DVD, and for home viewing through digital download. Our films are also available for television broadcast and foreign licensing.
DVDs can be purchased by educational institutions in two ways, either through Reframe and Amazon.com or directly through dGenerate Films. Standard DVD rights allow for in-classroom or library use only, and do not provide public performance rights, which can be negotiated. Volume discounts are available as well: 5% for 3-4 DVDs; 10% for 5+ DVDs.
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dGenerate Films titles have screened at venues such as MOMA, BAM, Lincoln Center, UC Berkeley, and China Institute to sell-out audiences. To book a film for Public Performance Exhibition, please contact us.
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TITLES
View our collection of titles sorted by category: Narrative and Documentary.
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Narrative
Betelnut (Bing Lang) – AVAILABLE NOW!
YANG Heng. China, 2005. Narrative, 112 minutes.
Hunan Dialect w/ English subtitles.
“Exquisite!” – Tony Rayns, Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Pure cinema” – Susanna Harutyunyan, FIPRESCI
Along a sleepy Hunan riverside, two delinquent boys experience a summer of love and violence in Yang Heng’s visually stunning debut. More info >>
Enter The Clowns (Chou Jue Deng Chang) – COMING WINTER ‘09
CUI Zi’en. China, 2002. Narrative, 80 minutes.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
“Liberating… ENTER THE CLOWNS conveys a sense of cinema at the vanguard.” – Scott Foundas, Variety
Straight, gay and in-between Beijingers unleash a whirlwind of transsexual mayhem in this groundbreaking, gender-bending debut by China’s preeminent queer filmmaker. More info >>
Er Dong (Er Dong) – AVAILABLE NOW!
YANG Jin. China, 2008. Narrative, 151 minutes.
Shanxi Dialect w/ English subtitles.
A rebellious teenager endures boarding school expulsion, family pressures and the harsh realities of rural life in northern China, until an uncovered secret from his past changes his life forever. Quietly moving and full of authentic insight into the prospects for youth in rural China, ER DONG announces the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Yang Jin. More info >>
Little Moth (Xue Chan) – AVAILABLE NOW!
PENG Tao. China, 2007. Narrative, 99 minutes.
Hubei dialect w/ English subtitles.
“A nearly perfect little film.” – Vancouver International Film Festival
When an impoverished couple adopts a crippled young girl and puts her to work begging on city streets, a battle soon ensues over her fate. Director Peng Tao turns the sordid street life of small town China into a chain-reaction tale of human cruelty and unforgettable suspense. More info >>
The Other Half (Ling Yi Ban)
YING Liang. China, 2006. Narrative, 111 min.
Sichuan dialect w/ English subtitles.
“A fierce and harrowing cry of political rage.” – The New Yorker
“One hell of a beautiful film… Endlessly haunting… with serene, even joyous consciousness that is the opposite of despair.” – Variety
Xiaofen spends all day listening to everything that’s wrong with China, opening her eyes to the chaos that threatens her own life. More info >>
Oxhide (Niu Pi) – COMING WINTER ‘09
LIU Jiayin. China, 2005. Narrative, 110 minutes.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
“The most important Chinese film of the past several years—and one of the most astonishing recent films from any country” – Shelly Kraicer, Cinema-scope
Daily life in a cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in an unprecedented, intimate portrait of a Chinese family. More info >>
Raised From Dust (Ju Zi Chen Tu)
GAN Xiao Er. China, 2006. Narrative, 102 min.
Henan dialect w/ English subtitles.
“A gentle, sympathetic look at the role of faith in a poor rural community”
– Richard Kuipers, Variety
A heartbreaking story told with compassion, RAISED FROM DUST sheds light on the unexplored lives of the approximately 40 million Christians in China. More info >>
Taking Father Home (Bei Ya Zi de Nan Hai)
YING Liang. China, 2005. Narrative, 100 min.
Sichuan dialect w/ English subtitles.
“A triumph of vision and talent.” – Jay Weissberg, Variety
“Filmmaking at its best.” – Film Intelligence
Seventeen-year-old Xu Yun (Xu Yun) leaves the Chinese countryside to search for his father, and finds instead a nightmare vision of survival in the modern city. More info >>
Documentary
Digital Underground in the People’s Republic – AVAILABLE NOW!
Rachel TEJADA, USA, 2008. Short, 18 min. Documentary.
Six documentary shorts chronicle the changing state of China’s independent, and underground, film scene.
We traveled from Shanghai to Nanjing to Beijing, and kept the cameras rolling. The result is unprecedented access into China’s other film community, where writing, filming, and distribution don’t always wait for government approval. More info >>
Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (Gai Shan Xi He Ta De Jie Mei Men)
BAN Zhongyi. China, 2007. Documentary, 80 min.
Mandarin, Japanese, Shanxi dialect w/ English subtitles.
Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters tells the story of one woman’s brutal ordeal as a “comfort woman“ for the Japanese Army during World War II. Ban also collects revelatory testimonies from former Japanese soldiers stationed in Shanxi during the war, breaking a decades-long silence over a dark chapter of China’s history. More info >>
ZHAO Dayong. China, 2008. Documentary, 169 min.
“One of the most surprising and rewarding films I’ve seen all year!” – Dennis Lim, Moving Image Source
Zhiziluo is a town barely clinging to life. Tucked away in a rugged corner of Southwest China, the village is haunted by traces of China’s cultural past while its residents piece together a day-by-day existence. More info >>
Meishi Street (Mei Shi Jie)
OU Ning. China, 2006. Documentary, 85 min.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
MEISHI STREET shows ordinary citizens taking a stand against the planned destruction of their homes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Acclaimed at over two dozen museums and galleries around the world, MEISHI STREET, by renowned visual artist Ou Ning, works as both art and activism, calling worldwide attention to lives being demolished in the name of progress. More info >>
Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China (Zhi Tong Zhi) – AVAILABLE NOW!
Cui Zi’en. China, 2008. Documentary, 60 minutes.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
China’s most prolific queer filmmaker presents a comprehensive historical account of the queer movement in modern China. Unlike any before, this film explores the historical milestones and ongoing advocacy efforts of the Chinese LGBT community. More info >>
San Yuan Li (San Yuan Li)
OU Ning, CAO Fei. China, 2003. Experimental Documentary, 45 min.
China’s rapid modernization literally traps the village of San Yuan Li within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people. Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China’s urban sprawl. More info >>
Super, Girls! (Chao Ji Nu Sheng)
JIAN Yi. China, 2007. Documentary, 73 min.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
“As entertaining as it is revelatory” – Ronnie Scheib, Variety
SUPER, GIRLS! follows ten teenagers on their quest to become superstars on China’s biggest tv show. Through candid interviews and footage of nail-biting auditions, SUPER, GIRLS! offers a fascinating look inside what the Chinese media have dubbed “the Lost Generation.” More info >>
Using (Long Ge) – COMING WINTER ‘09
ZHOU Hao. China, 2008. Documentary, 105 minutes.
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
A twisted relationship develops between an urban Chinese couple struggling with heroin and a filmmaker chronicling their addiction, in this provocative documentary on drug abuse, filmmaking and friendship.
More info >>
