Wu Wenguang Movies

A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything,...

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's...

Filmmakers Wu Wenguang and Jian Yi trained 10 villagers from across China to make films documenting electoral processes in their home villages....

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a...

A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives,...

Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

Treatment is one of two films Wu Wenguang released in 2010 after a 5-year absence. The film deals with Wu’s memories of his deceased mother and...

This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry.

Thirty years later, Chuang encounters a past love in Zhongshan. As they wander the aging streets, true archival footage from his youth bleeds into...

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

“Action 2024” is a snapshot of independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang's experiences during the year 2024, which he spent in a village called...

My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to...

Originally produced in 1988 and 1989, but blocked from being released after June 4th. A large-scale Chinese documentary series that spanned 100s of...

Jia Zhitan investigates the One Strike-Three Anti campaign in his village.

A documentary following the filmmaker, Li Xinmin, who went back to her hometown and interviewed the elders in her village who lived through the Great...

In 2022, while living and working in Hong Kong, Hester started writing daily about her experiences. The previous year, inspired by the weekly online...

The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.

Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this...

The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.