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Takhté siah

Takhté siah

Samira Makhmalbaf 2000 1h 25m 5.0

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son.

Ren xiao yao

Ren xiao yao

Jia Zhangke 2002 1h 52m 5.0

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.

Zhantai

Zhantai

Jia Zhangke 2000 2h 35m 8.0

China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.