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dGenerate Films is a non-theatrical distributor of award-winning independent films from China. Their aim is to bring more images of contemporary life in mainland China to U.S. audiences. The company was launched in 2008 by American independent film veterans, including producer Karin Chien. dGenerate Films has the international rights to nearly forty independent Chinese films, and they distribute them abroad mostly to educational institutions and festivals, though they also are available to a general audience. Many of them are smuggled illegally out of China, where the uncensored films are considered to be counter-government.
Examples of releases include:
Oxhide, a narrative in which filmmaker Liu Jiayin presents an intimate, funny, fictionalized portrait of her working class Beijing family
The Other Half, a narrative in which a young woman tries to escape a destructive lover and the toxic natural environment of her city
Fujian Blue, a narrative film on the lives of young men, aspiring small time hoods, in a fast-paced corner of coastal China
Little Moth, a narrative film about a young girl who is forced by her adoptive parents to beg for money on the streets
Betelnut, a narrative following the love, work, and aimless pursuits of 21st century teenagers in a sleepy riverside city in rural China
San Yuan Li, a documentary tracing a traditional village which has been surrounded by the postmodern megalopolis of Guangzhou
Using, a documentary showing the troubled relations between a drug addict, his girlfriend, and the filmmaker eager to expose their lives
When the Bough Breaks, a documentary on a Beijing family suffering hard times, whose children take responsibility to support each other
Disorder, a documentary featuring chaotic, humorous and provocative found video images of life in China's booming cities
Ghost Town, a documentary tracing the lives of a Christian community in decline in a remote corner of southwestern China
1408, a documentary on the effects of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake on the lives of rural people near the epicenter
Queer China Comrade China, a documentary about the history of gay rights and the place of homosexuality in modern Chinese culture
In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul, a documentary on the legacy of Lin Zhao, a young woman rebel who died in the 1960s Cultural Revolution
Dong, a documentary following artist Liu Xiaodong as he paints workers demolishing an ancient town in advance of the new Three Gorges Dam
Karamay, a documentary of personal testimonies on a mysterious 1994 fire that resulted in the death of Uighur people in Xinjiang Province
Meishi Street, a documentary following the demolishing of an ordinary neighborhood in Beijing in preparation for the 2008 Olympics
Struggle, a documentary focused on workers who suffered severe injuries in a high tech factory manufacturing products for western export
Filmography of DGenerate Films (12 films)
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Queer China, 'Comrade' China (2009)
, 1hGenres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Little Moth (2008)
, 1h40Genres Drama, Documentary
Un couple achète une fillette handicapée de onze ans dans l'intention de l'utiliser pour mendier.
Er Dong (2008)
, 2h31Genres Drama
Er Dong and his Christian mother lives in a rural Chinese village. She sends him to a Christian boarding school because of his inappropriate behavior, hoping that God will give him a new direction in life. At the school, Er meets a girl, Chang'e, and they are almost expelled because of their misconduct.
Star Appeal (2008)
, 1h26Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about sexuality, Mars in film, LGBT-related films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Yu Bo
The story revolves around a young man from the planet Mars, who is known as E.T., who arrives on Earth totally naked, and soon befriends a young Chinese man, Xiao Bo, who takes him home and teaches him several languages, mathematics, geography, world history, art and the natural sciences. The two become increasingly close, and eventually fall in love. The Chinese man is bisexual, and has both a boyfriend and girlfriend who befriend E.T., and also fall in love with him. The girl tries to conceive a baby with E.T., after which he falls into a coma.
Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (2007)
, 1h20Genres Documentary
Themes Films about slavery, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
My Fair Son (2007)
, 1h32Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Yu Bo
A teenage boy, Ray, returns home from a life with his grandfather to live with his father after they have been estranged for several years. During the period of their estrangement, Ray spent much of his youth rebelling against his father's lifestyle. After he enrolls in art school, Ray becomes romantically involved in a relationship with another male student, and the pair soon become lovers. His father discovers the two young men in bed together, and begins to understand what it really means to be homosexual. Ray then meets one of his father's employees, Bo, and falls in love with him, too. Bo is engaged, and admits to Ray's father that he is in love with his son. The father fires Bo and lies to Ray that he left on his own will. The doesn't accept his father's argument. The film ends with ray roaming on terrace with floating transparent images of his childhood pictures.
The Other Half (2006)
, 1h51Genres Drama, Comedy
A sensitive and ironic portrayal of life in a Chinese industrial town, where a law clerk contends with her clients’ litany of woes, her shady boyfriend’s gambling addiction, her estranged father and the threat of toxic pollution.
Oxhide (2005)
, 1h50Genres Drama, Documentary
Beijing, Chine. Un père, une mère et leur fille. Une petite entreprise familiale qui vend et fabrique des sacs en cuir, mais la faillite les guette… La famille est en crise. Le père se dispute sans cesse avec sa femme et sa fille qui l’encouragent à relancer et à moderniser le commerce. Mais le père, trop fier, s’y refuse. Le film s’articule autour de 23 scènes de leur vie quotidienne et toutes se déroulent dans leur appartement de 50m2.
