
September 3, 1969 · 56 years old
Wang Hongwei is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang starring in Jia's breakthrough short film Xiao Shan Going Home in 1995.

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.

A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.

Cui Dalu (played by Xiao Yang), Li Hongying (played by Zhao Liying), and Zhao Zishan (played by Liu Ye) have each lost a child and become entangled. Along the way of finding, they encounter one bizarre and dangerous crisis after a...

A voyage in between a woman who tries to searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.

Gu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by his new friend, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.

Documentary of the life & filmmaking of Jia Zhang-Ke from the Brazilian Walter Salles. Reflections on transformation of Chinese society, towns, family, the cultural revolution and globalization ("americanization"). Insights of the...