Chinese Portrait
Wang Xiaoshuai / Switzerland, France, Hong Kong / 2018 / Czech Premiere / 79 min.
synopsis
What if you were a passer-by in the Beijing streets, a peasant hoping for the rain to fall, a steelworker in disappearing factories, a tourist on a packed beach, praying in Ningxia or Qinghai, a construction worker after an earthquake, a fisherman repairing his fishnet, or a dancer waiting to get on stage? A personal contemporary portrait of a country, a population and a society by Wang Xiaoshuai.biography
Wang Xiaoshuai, graduate of Beijing Film Academy, made his debut The Days (1993) at age 27. Over the next decades, his films gained international recognition at festivals like Cannes and Berlin. His documentary Chinese Portrait (2018) premiered at Busan Film Festival and screened at IDFA and MoMA.more about film
| director: | Wang Xiaoshuai |
| producer: | Isabelle Glachant, Qian Yini, Xuan Liu |
Screening time
Monday 28. 10. 2024, 16:30
Horácké divadlo – Velká scéna
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2024 |
| section: | Special Event |
| language: | Chinese |
| subtitles: | No Subtitles |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Wang Xiaoshuai |
| original title: | Wo de jìngtou |
| country: | Switzerland, France, Hong Kong |
| year: | 2018 |
| running time: | 79 min. |
