Bitter Money

Ku Qian

An insight into the grindingly dull everyday life of low-income workers in China’s garment industry, most of them migrants and minors. Trapped in a relentlessly hopeless existence, these “invisible” people waste their lives in horrid working conditions, systematically exploited, crushed by the forces of a powerful impersonal mechanism. An unsettling documentary that captures boldly images of a cruel reality, a raw testament to human spirit in the brutal face of social injustice.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Wang Bing
Editing: Dominique Auvray, Wang Bing
Sound: Emmanuel Soland
Production: Gladys Glover, House on Fire, Chinese Shadows
Co-production: Fame Culture Media CO LTD., Wil Production, Yisha Production
Co-producers: Sonia Buchman, Nicolas De La Mothe, Vincent Wang
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: France, China
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 156΄
Contact: Pyramide Films, sales@pyramidefilms.com
Awards/Distinctions: Best Screenplay Award – Venice FF 2016 Human Rights Film Network Award – Venice FF 2016 Best Film – Las Palmas De Gran Canaria IFF 2017

Wang Bing

Filmography

2003 West of the Tracks
2007 Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
2010 The Ditch (fiction)
2012 Three Sisters
2013 ’Til Madness Do Us Part
2016 Ta’ang
2016 Bitter Money
2017 Mrs Fang
2018 Dead Souls
2023 Youth (Spring)
2023 Man in Black