Bitter Money (China, 2016)
As with all of Wang Bing’s films, here one is faced with a strictly observational work. And with Wang, observational usually means immersed rather than...
Dream Empire (Denmark, 2016)
Dream Empire begins in 2012 when Xi Jinping was elected to the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party and delivered a speech in...
The Road to Mandalay (Myanmar/Taiwan, 2016) [CVF 2017]
Though Midi Z left Myanmar at the age of sixteen in the late 1990s to work and study in Taiwan, eventually obtaining citizenship, he has...
Good Luck Soup (USA, 2016)
Among the crew of teenagers I hung out with to make the Cleveland exurb of Berea, Ohio tolerable in the 80’s were two friends who...
We the Workers (China, 2017) [CVF 2017]
We the Workers provides an intimate look at the life and work of a labor organizer in time of crisis. At the center of the...