Youth (Spring)
Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. This garment manufacturing town draws throngs of young people from across the rural provinces bordering the Yangtze River. They are 20-year-olds, share dormitories, eat in corridors. They toil relentlessly hoping that one day they will be able to raise a child, buy a house or set up their own workshop. Between them, friendships and romances grow and unravel in line with the seasons, bankruptcies and family pressures.
WANG Bing
Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, in 1967. He studied photography at the Lu Xun
Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, an industrial city where, years later, he would film West of the
Tracks. From there he moved on to the Beijing Film Academy, where he discovered the work of
Antonioni, Bergman and Pasolini. He especially admires Andrei Tarkovsky. Through the 1990s he made
a living working on various films as assistant director or cameraman, but, feeling that the mainstream
filmmaking and television world would not let him develop as he wished, he decided to start producing
his own films.
CS Production, Gladys Glover Films, House On Fire productions
Les Acacias
Maeda Yoshitaka, Shan Xiaohui, Song Yang, Liu Xianhui, Ding Bihan, Wang Bing
Ranko Paukovic
Dominique Auvray, Xu Bingyuan, Liyo Gong
