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Top 10
Top 10
A program of films selected by our Guest of Honor. In his Top 10 program, Wang Bing invites us on a contemplative journey into contemporary Chinese cinema, with ten titles dating 1999 and later.
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Before the Flood

Before the Flood

Yifan Li, Yu Yan
2005
147 min
It’s 2002, and the small Chinese port town of Fengjie is about to be demolished and completely submerged for the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. In the months leading up to their move, local residents clash with the “relocation committee”.
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Wheat Harvest

Wheat Harvest

Tong Xu
2008
98 min
Wheat Harvest depicts a complex picture of Hongmiao, a sex worker in Beijing. During the wheat harvest, she visits her village home and aids her family. The mundaneness and rawness of her life are inseparable.