Chinese Portrait

Chinese Portrait

21st TDF: Greek Premiere

Passengers on public transportation, tourists on the beach, students, factory and construction workers. One of the greatest auteurs of contemporary Chinese cinema creates a series of portraits that bring everyday man into focus and capture different facets of this vast country's society. Carefully composed frames with the use of a static camera, yet with movement always there somewhere in the picture, giving the impression of moving photographs in which there is always something more to discover.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Wang Xiaoshuai
Cinematography: Wu Di, Zeng Jian, Zeng Hui, Piao Xinghai
Editing: Valérie Loiseleux
Sound: Valérie Loiseleux
Production: Asian Shadows, Chinese Shadows, Front Films
Producers: Isabelle Glachant, Xuan Liu
Executive producer: Qian Yini
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hong Kong
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 79´
Contact: Chinese Shadows, contact@chineseshadows.com

Wang Xiaoshuai

Filmography

1999 The House | Meng huan tian yuan (fiction)
2001 Beijing Bicycle | Shiqi sui de dan che | Ο ποδηλάτης του Πεκίνου (fiction)
2003 Drifters | Er di (fiction)
2005 Shanghai Dreams | Qing hong (fiction)
2010 Chongqing Blues | Rizhao Chongqing (fiction)
2012 L'archivio a oriente
2014 Red Amnesia | Chuang ru zhe (fiction)
2015 The Cornfield (short fiction)
2018 Chinese Portrait