Wang Bing — Director (42)
Father and Sons (2015) [Movie] Douban TMDB
父与子
director: 王兵
other title: 父与子
In 2010, while he was filming "Three Sisters" in the mountain of Yunnan province, Wang Bing met two teenagers, Yonggao and Yongjin, whose father, a stonemason, had gone to the city in the hope of finding work. Wang Bing met up with them again in 2014, when they had been reunited with their father after four years in Fumin. For about a month, Wang Bing filmed their daily lives in the single squalid room that was their home. The fixed camera recorded the micro-events that punctuated their days : their father leaving for work, the youngsters themselves waking up, breakfast time, in front of the television, etc.
骄阳似我 (2014) [TV] Douban
director: 王兵 / 杨永春 actor: 田亮 / 伊一
爱游泳的少年林风有个温暖的家,爸爸林大山深爱着妈妈叶茹,弟弟林雨乖巧可爱梦想成为一个拳击手,一家四口和乐融融。 突然有一天,母亲叶茹偷偷离开了林家,从此下落不明。林大山性情大变,不寻找妻子的下落,对兄弟二人不闻不问。林风一心要找到失踪的母亲,机缘巧遇结识了体操运动员吴小 可,吴小可不仅帮助林风寻找母亲,还帮林风加入体工队成为游泳运动员;弟弟林雨在母亲失踪后父亲对他突然冷落,变得争强好胜,一心想要在拳击台上证明自己的存在。一张陈年报纸把林风、林雨、吴小可卷进了上一代人尘封的恩怨!林风苦苦寻找的母亲居然身陷牢房;林雨发现自己竟然和吴小可是同父异母的兄妹;吴小可找回了曾失去的童年记忆。林风为了化解两代人的爱恨情仇,不惜牺牲自己的一切,终于重新找回一个温暖的家。
Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018) [Movie] Douban
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。
15小时 (2017) [Movie] Douban
director: 王兵
other title: 15 Hours / 900 Mins
A single-shot documentary filmed in a centralized garment processing facility in China, which consists of 18,000 production units and employs some 300,000 migrant workers.
Traces (2014) [Movie] Douban
director: 王兵
other title: 遗址
Following landscape of a wasteland while developing. A macro-movie showing the world the truth through observing a micro atom.
Happy Valley (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB
喜洋塘
director: 王兵
other title: 喜洋塘
The inhabitants of the village of Xi Yang Tang lead lives of extreme poverty and hardship. The children spend most of their time looking after their little brothers and sisters, and helping their parents with everyday chores.
Mrs. Fang (2017) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
方绣英
6.5 (11 ratings) 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.
Coal Money (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB
L'Argent du charbon
director: 王兵
other title: 煤钱 / L'Argent du charbon
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.
Crude Oil (2008) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
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.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded
5.8 (10 ratings) director: 陈可辛 / 贝纳尔多·贝托鲁奇 actor: 秦昊 / 田原
other title: 베니스 70: 미래 재장전 / 威尼斯70周年:重启未来
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.
Bitter Money (2016) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
苦钱
6.4 (7 ratings) director: 王兵
other title: 상하이 청춘 / 苦钱
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.
Three Sisters (2012) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
三姊妹
7.6 (30 ratings) director: 王兵
other title: 三姊妹 / 三姐妹
The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province.
Man With No Name (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB
无名者
7.4 (11 ratings) 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
铁西区第二部分:艳粉街 (2003) [Movie] Douban
8.9 (54 ratings) director: 王兵
other title: 艳粉街
1999年的冬天,即开式福利彩票喧闹的发行现场不远处,有人在拆除了平房后的地表挖出金属来卖。几个十几岁的艳粉街年青人,在即将动迁的居民区里无聊漫顾,他们有时聚集在小卖部里谈论感兴趣的女孩或者其他话题,有时为女孩在寒冬中瑟瑟发抖的等待。这个冬天里,大部分艳粉街的家庭尚没有进入搬迁的实质阶段,年青人们仍然靠打架、聊天、游戏消磨度日,偶而也为工作的前途焦虑。随着越来越多的昔日邻居离开旧居,艳粉街失去了往日的格局,总有一些家庭为了切身的利益选择留下,2000年的冬天,一些年青人仍然重复着他们的生活,而遭遇断电断水的人们,开始为解决基本的生活需求而苦恼……
本片是王兵《铁西区》系列纪录片的第二部。
Tie Xi Qu:West of the Tracks-Part 3:Rails (2003) [Movie] Douban
8.9 (49 ratings) director: 王兵
other title: 铁西区第三部分:铁路 / 铁西区第三部分: 铁路
《铁路》长不足两个小时,主要片段是大段的火车穿越铁西区的空镜,穿过一个个工厂,穿过道路,大雪飞扬或烈日炎炎。铁路边的货场住着一对相濡以沫的父子。
Youth (Spring) (2023) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
青春:春
8.3 (86 ratings) director: 王兵
other title: 青春:春 / Jeunesse (Le Printemps)
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Ta'ang (2016) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ta'ang
5.7 (6 ratings) 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.