Wang Bing — Director (30)
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The State of the World (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
O Estado do Mundo
director: Ayisha Abraham / Chantal Akerman … actor: Jenjira Pongpas / Sakda Kaewbuadee …
other title: Gente luminosa / O Estado do Mundo …
Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection.
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) [Movie] TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Antonio Capuano … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
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Alone (2013) [Movie] TMDB
孤独
director: Wang Bing
other title: 孤独
Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters, which premiered in Venice.
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Alone (2013) [Movie] NeoDB
孤独
director: 王兵
other title: 孤独 / 三姊妹
Three sisters aged 10, 6 and 4 have to cope more or less on their own in a remote mountainous region of Yunnan. Terrible poverty in China, shown with gripping compassion by today's best documentary maker. Shorter version of Three Sisters, which premiered in Venice.
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Mrs. Fang (2017) [Movie] TMDB
方绣英
director: Wang Bing actor: Fang Xiuying
other title: 方绣英 / Madame Fang
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced symptoms and ineffective treatment, she was sent back home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, as they witness and accompany her through her last days.
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Mrs. Fang (2017) [Movie] NeoDB
方绣英
director: 王兵 actor: Fang Xiuying
other title: 미세스 팡 / 方绣英 …
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced symptoms and ineffective treatment, she was sent back home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, as they witness and accompany her through her last days.
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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 2: Remnants (2004) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB NeoDB
铁西区第二部：艳粉街
director: Wang Bing
other title: 铁西区第二部：艳粉街 / 铁西区第二部分：艳粉街 …
9 hour long film that details the slow decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. This second part follows the families of many of the workers in an old state-run housing block, “Rainbow Row.”
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Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018) [Movie] NeoDB
Beauty Lives in Freedom
director: 王兵
other title: 美在自由 / 美是自由的象征 …
高尔泰，出生于1931年，是一位艺术家、教师、活动家和哲学家，他于20世纪50年代被关押在中国劳工营。qigou.cc这部记录片记录了他一生对自由的追求。
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Coal Money (2009) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
煤钱
director: Wang Bing
other title: L'Argent du charbon / 煤钱
On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and from, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics.
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Crude Oil (2008) [Movie] TMDB
原油
director: Wang Bing
other title: Caiyou riji / 原油
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
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Crude Oil (2008) [Movie] NeoDB
A Journal of Crude Oil
director: 王兵
other title: 原油 / A Journal of Crude Oil …
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
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Ta'ang (2016) [Movie] TMDB
Ta'ang
director: Wang Bing actor: Jin Xiaoda / Jin Xiaoman
other title: Ta'ang, un peuple en exil entre Chine et Birmanie
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.
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Ta'ang (2016) [Movie] NeoDB
Ta'ang
director: 王兵 actor: Jin Xiaoda / Jin Xiaoman
other title: Ta'ang, un peuple en exil entre Chine et Birmanie / 德昂
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.
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Bitter Money (2016) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
苦钱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Bitter verdient / Argent amer …
In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. Xiao Min, Ling Ling and Lao Yeh are some of the characters of this bitter chronicle of today China.
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Man With No Name (2010) [Movie] TMDB
无名者
director: Wang Bing
other title: 无名者 / L'Homme sans nom
The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to the neighboring villages, although he doesn’t communicate with other people. He collects some waste but doesn’t beg. He prowls about the ruins of deserted villages, as an animal or as a ghost. Under double political and economical pressure, most of people are depriving of their last dignity into a world where it exists a lack of material and spirit. But a human being stays a human being. He is looking for reasons to continue to live. —Wang Bing
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Man With No Name (2009) [Movie] NeoDB
无名者
director: 王兵
other title: 无名者 / L'Homme sans nom …
The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to the neighboring villages, although he doesn’t communicate with other people. He collects some waste but doesn’t beg. He prowls about the ruins of deserted villages, as an animal or as a ghost. Under double political and economical pressure, most of people are depriving of their last dignity into a world where it exists a lack of material and spirit. But a human being stays a human being. He is looking for reasons to continue to live. —Wang Bing
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'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014) [Movie]
疯爱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Follia e amore / 疯爱 …
An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone, committing a crime against a public official, or have a developmental disability.
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'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
疯爱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Follia e amore / À la folie …
An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone, committing a crime against a public official, or have a developmental disability.
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Youth (Hard Times) (2025) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
青春（苦）
9.2 (10 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Juventude (Tempos Difíceis) / Jeunesse (Les Tourments) …
In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.
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Youth (Homecoming) (2025) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
青春（归）
8.9 (10 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Juventude (Regresso a Casa) / Jeunesse (Retour au pays) …
Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to go to their remote hometowns to visit their families and celebrate the festivities for New Year’s break.