Wu Wenguang Movies

A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives,...

This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry.

The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.

Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a...

Treatment is one of two films Wu Wenguang released in 2010 after a 5-year absence. The film deals with Wu’s memories of his deceased mother and...

My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to...

This film is the second segment of my “Autobiography Series.” From the moment when my mother disclosed a long kept secret, my birth was...

A documentary following the filmmaker, Shu Qiao, who went back to his hometown of Shuangjing, a rural village in Hunan Province. He interviewed the...

A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything,...

Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this...

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's...

Zou Xueping continues to interview old people in her village, this time with the help of local children. They start collecting names and money to...

Luo Luo’s intense fear of Covid-19 keeps her in the house during the pandemic. She listens to her father relate their family history, and...

A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 years old with five sons, the grandfather insists...

Wu Wenguang revisits the artist Gao Bo more than 20 years after their earlier encounters which were documented in "Bumming in Beijing" (1990) and "At...

A documentary following the filmmaker, Li Xinmin, who went back to her hometown and interviewed the elders in her village who lived through the Great...

A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He...

It is the director's second documentary of "my village" series since she got involved with the "Folk Memory Project". She returned to her hometown to...