Smog Town and Our Time Machine make clear the invisible line that Chinese documentaries, made in and for China, must navigate.

Huang Ji’s 2012 debut feature, Egg and Stone, shows the world of rural Chinese life through a perspective seldom seen, that of a young...

By Josh Feola Yang Mingming, a self-described “hutong kid” born in 1988 and raised in central Beijing, fell into filmmaking in college....

By Josh Feola Courtesy of Icarus Films This review contains spoilers. Yang Mingming’s 2012 debut Female Directors, a documentary-style...

Courtesy of Icarus Films by Maya Rudolph  This review contains spoilers. Tharlo, Pema Tsenden’s noir-inflected romance, is a story of...

Mothers (dir. Xu Huijing) We are happy to announce three new additions to the dGenerate Films collection, released by Icarus Films just...

Scene from “What’s for Dinner?” (directed by Jian Yi) One of the newest additions to the dGenerate Films Collection, What’s for Dinner?...

Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul (dir. Hu Jie) Last December 16 marked the 81st anniversary of Lin Zhao’s birth (it’s technically the 82nd...

From ChinaFile, a video profile of independent director Wang Jiuliang, whose award-winning documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste is part...

Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan) The 2014 edition of the Punto de Vista Film Festival of Navarra, Spain, is an international seminar focusing...

Beijing Besieged by Waste (dir. WANG Jiuliang) In the new issue of the journal Environment, Space, Place, Lorna Lueker Zukas of National...

The verbal information provided in Wang Jiuliang’s documentary, Beijing Besieged by Waste, is staggering: Beijing, with a population of...

Twin Cities area film programmer Kathie Smith reviews Zhao Liang’s documentary Crime and Punishment, which screened earlier this year at...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph In Focus spotlights dGenerate titles that shed light on some of the weightiest issues in contemporary China....

Indiewire lends a double dose of coverage to Pema Tseden’s Old Dog on its New York festival premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival. The...

The Economist reviews Zhou Hao’s The Transition Period and places the film in the context of how local-level government operates, and the...

By Kevin B. Lee Chinese director Ying Liang cannot return to his country. On April 28, Ying debuted his film When Night Falls at the...

This new series will spotlight dGenerate titles that shed light on some of the weightiest issues in contemporary China. From the...

Beijing in focus A new book from the World Film Locations series entitled World Film Locations: Beijing, edited by John Berra and Liu...

To celebrate its 50th issue, Cinema Scope has compiled a list of fifty directors under 50 who represent “the future of cinema.” Much to...