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Following last year's successful release of the critically acclaimed YOUTH (SPRING), Icarus Films and the dGenerate Films collection are proud to announce the acquisition of exclusive North American distribution rights for the next two chapters of Wang Bing's epic YOUTH trilogy, YOUTH (HARD TIMES) and YOUTH (HOMECOMING).

Both films will have their North American premiere in the Wavelengths section of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival TIFF. Both have also been selected for the Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival , where they will have their U.S. premiere.

Full press release: https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/youth_hard-times_homecoming?e=82c8071bfa

Icarus Films, dGenerate Films acquire Wang Bing’s final ‘Youth’ instalments Films will premiere in Locarno, Venice.

"The storytelling is fluid with a brilliant sense of ellipsis, an essential feature for a medium-length film." reviews NIKAH by Mukkadas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan in favorable comparable light to Jia Zhangke, Wang Bing and Jafar Panahi.

Read: https://asianmoviepulse.com/2024/05/film-review-nikah-mukkadas-mijit-and-bastien-ehouzan/

🎉 🎉 🎉 The VC FILM FEST jury has named NIKAH as the recipient of the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature!

Full press release 🔗 festival.vcmedia.org/2024/2024/05/16/40th-vc-film-fest-announces-award-winners/

Tickets still available for tomorrow's screening at CAAMFest !! 🎟 caamfest.com/2024/movies/nikah/

40th VC Film Fest Announces Award Winners Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: NIKAH, directed by Bastien Ehouzan and Mukaddas Mijit Grand Jury Award...

Remembering Pema Tseden, Pioneer of Tibetan Cinema "We lost Pema at the peak of his artistry, he had so much more to say and to show us. Pema’s loss leaves a giant hole in global cinema and in our community."—Karin Chien, dGenerate Films

"Extraordinary...NIKAH is a glimpse into the shattering of a culture, and shows us the beauty of Uyghur communal life” — The China Project

See new release NIKAH tonight at the Visual Communications Film Festival, screening at The Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Tickets 🎟️ festival.vcmedia.org/2024/movies/nikah/

Also screening later this month as part of CAAMFest at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA. Tickets 🎟️ caamfest.com/2024/movies/nikah/

China's outrage about the Netflix series 3 BODY PROBLEM has been making headlines. Li Yuan at the New York Times compares the beginning of HU Jie's 2007 documentary THOUGH I AM GONE to the new series; THOUGH I AM GONE tells the tragic true story of Bian Zhongyun, who was beaten to death by her own students during the Cultural Revolution.

Available to stream exclusively via OVID ▶️ ovid.tv/videos/though-i-am-gone

Full The New York Times article 🔗 nytimes.com/2024/04/08/business/3-body-problem-china-reaction.html

Through Tibetan Eyes: the Films of Pema Tseden A day-long, four-film tribute to the Tibetan New Wave’s guiding light Sunday, April 21 Pema Tseden (1969-2023) gave...

Next month will mark one year since the death of Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden. In the Spring 2024 issue of Film Quarterly, Chris Berry pays tribute: "I had known him for over a decade and regarded him as a welcoming friend who always tried to help me understand the situation of Tibetan filmmaking in China whenever I visited. I still find it hard to believe that I will never meet him again."

Read on 🔗 https://filmquarterly.org/2024/03/01/pema-tseden-1969-2023-a-tribute/

✨ ✨✨ San Diego: Don't miss a day-long, four-film tribute coming up later this month: "Through Tibetan Eyes: the Films of Pema Tseden" at 🎟️ sdaff.org/spring2024/guides/through-tibetan-eyes-the-films-of-pema-tseden/

Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute By the time of his sudden and unexpected death in May 2023, the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden had changed the face of cinema from China. He was not only China’s first ethnic Tibetan feature filmmak…

dGenerate Films president & Shorenstein Center fellow Karin Chien in conversation with filmmaker Jian Yi, moderated by The New York Times' Elsie Chen, THIS THURSDAY 4/04, charting the evolution of Chien's work at dGenerate Films, acquiring independent Chinese films and releasing them in the US through a partnership with Icarus Films.

Open to the public. Register to attend in person or online. 🔗 shorensteincenter.org/new-event/chinese-independent-film-distribution-public-interest-media/

dGenerate Films co-founder and president Karin Chien speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center next week, April 4th! 'Chinese Independent Film and Distribution of Public Interest Media' >> register to attend in person or virtually + more info 🔗

Chinese Independent Film and Distribution of Public Interest Media | Shorenstein Center Karin Chien charts the evolution of her work at dGenerate Films, acquiring independent Chinese films and releasing them in the US through a partnership with Icarus Films. Karin is a fellow for the Documentary Film in the Public Interest program at the Shorenstein Center.

"Many artists in the era of slow cinema have worked with takes of this duration but few have understood so well how to manage them." Film critic Alex Fields on Liu Jiayin's OXHIDE II. Read more via OVID 🔗 metafilm.ovid.tv/2024/03/05/oxhide-ii/?fbclid=IwAR2ifCpad56q5sBRyl9r61huKH7RLrJvTcw9pqun4mlenot8JFKXa8K_980

The Slow Craft of Oxhide II - metafilm | OVID.tv A review by Alex Fields. In Oxhide I & Oxhide II, filmmaker Liu Jiayin takes us into a cramped Beijing apartment, casting her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. In the following post, film critic Alex Fields pays particular attention to the second installment, wherein the d...

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This Saturday, 2/24: A NEW OLD PLAY at Doc Films at the University of Chicago + special Q&A with filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong! Tickets 🎟️ bit.ly/42MdTa2

Out today on DVD & digital: Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a "vibrant masterpiece!" (Vogue). - https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-youthspring-0220

It's here! Now available to watch on DVD and digital platforms, New York Times Critic's Pick YOUTH (SPRING) is "an exhortation not to forget the unseen.” YOUTH (SPRING) joins the dGenerate Films Collection at Icarus Films, which now represents seven films by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing.

Out today on DVD & Digital 2/20: YOUTH (SPRING) Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays.

Happy Lunar New Year from dGenerate Films! 💖🧧🐉

dGenerate Films co-founder and president Karin Chien highlights six films on Hong Kong included in the dGenerate Films collection, and now all available to stream on indie streaming service OVID.

"These films are radical in their aesthetics and brave in their points of view – and they have changed the way I think about documentary, resistance and crisis narratives."

A Spotlight on Hong Kong - metafilm | OVID.tv By Karin Chien Amidst global crises competing for our attention, I value the current attention that is being paid to Hong Kong and its recent protests, coming in part from the splashy new drama series on Amazon Prime, The Expats.  If you’re looking for more on Hong Kong, we are proud to offer six...

Wang Bing's epic YOUTH (SPRING) follows the lives of young Chinese garment workers over five years. Coming to DVD, Vimeo On Demand, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, & Icarus Films On Demand. this February. DVD release includes a Q&A with the filmmaker from New York Film Festival 2023!

Watch trailer, request advance press copies, or pre-order your copy now 🔗

New on DVD & Digital 2/20: YOUTH (SPRING) Coming to DVD and digital platforms this February, Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is a documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays.

New on DVD & Digital 2/20: Wang Bing's epic YOUTH (SPRING) is a "vibrant masterpiece!" (Vogue). Coming to DVD this February, Wang Bing's new documentary follows the lives of young Chinese garment workers. DVD release includes a Q&A with the filmmaker from New York Film Festival 2023! Watch trailer, request advance press copies, or pre-order your copy now - https://mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-youthspring-0123

Chicago! Don't have Saturday plans yet? Now you do! Rare opportunity to settle in for an afternoon at Gene Siskel Film Center to see Wang Bing's DEAD SOULS (506 minutes!!) — tomorrow, Saturday, January 13th, 2024.

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Chicago! Rare opportunity to settle in for a day at Gene Siskel Film Center to watch Wang Bing's DEAD SOULS (506 minutes!!) — tomorrow, Saturday, January 13th, 2024. Secure your seat now🎟️

DEAD SOULS | Siskel Film Center Saturday, January 13, 11:00 a.m. | In the harrowing and fearless DEAD SOULS, acclaimed long-form documentarian Wang Bing trains his patient and empathetic lens on the dark history of China's labor camps during the 1957–59 Anti-Rightist Campaign. Unfolding over eight hours, Bing meticulously captur...

Only a few more days of the Icarus Films Year-End Holiday sale! Secure that sweet, sweet 50% discount while you can with promo code HOLIDAY at checkout ✨ 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-holidaysale-121823

Tickets on sale now! Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) is screening as part of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Film series The Contenders 2023 next weekend on January 7th, 2024 🎟️

Youth (Spring). 2023. Directed by Wang Bing | MoMA For members at the Explore category and above, tickets will become available two weeks before the screening date, starting at 10:30 a.m. Additional tickets will be available to members and the general public one week before the screening date, also at 10:30 a.m. Please note that space is extremely l...

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👀 Wang Bing's YOUTH (SPRING) returns to NYC next month, screening at Museum of the Moving Image as a Curators' Choice pick! Tickets on sale now! 🎟️

Youth (Spring) – Museum of the Moving Image Wang Bing has been constructing epic documentary portraits of the economic condition of China throughout the volatile and transformative twenty-first century.

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In collaboration with dGenerate Films, today OVID launches three experimental films by Tiffany Sia: an artist, filmmaker, and writer looking at the history of colonialism and present-day political turmoil in Hong Kong. Her films have screened at New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Flaherty Film Seminar and elsewhere. Her solo exhibition “Slippery When Wet” debuted in 2021 at Artists Space in New York.

"Much of Sia’s work considers the video remnants of the most recent era of cultural uprising in Hong Kong; what is still accessible and what has been disappeared, cast into a litany of red, dead URLs and porous memory." —Screen Slate

"Made in the roiling scrum of mass protest, the movie resists the temptations of spectacle.... Wary of leering eyes and appetites. This is not prudishness. Rather, it is a consequence of a protracted encounter with the unsexy contours of authoritarian violence." —Artforum