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Foundation date 1 january 2003
Xstream Pictures is a Chinese production company based out of Beijing and Hong Kong that was founded by filmmakers Jia Zhangke, Chow Keung, and Yu Lik-wai. Formed in 2003, the company's first production was Jia's own The World. It has since served as a production house for several of Jia's other films, as well as Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City.
Filmography of Xstream Pictures (4 films)
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Plastic City (2009)
, 1h58Directed by Yu Lik-wai
Origin Chine
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Anthony Wong, Joe Odagiri, Milhem Cortaz, Tainá Müller, Babu Santana, Chen Chao-jung
Set in the traditional neighborhood of Liberdade in downtown São Paulo, Plastic City has the immense Eastern community that was established in the city over the years as protagonist, people who are seeking for a land of opportunity and a place for new business - legal or illegal. It is in the midst of Chinese cultural traditions and the chaos of urban life that the immigrant Yuda and his son Kirin are commanding a piracy mafia in Brazil, but this empire went into decline when they were threatened by a powerful organization with strong international influences.
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Dong (2006)
, 1h6Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Peinture, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Jia Zhang Ke suit le travail du peintre chinois Liu Xiaodong à travers deux œuvres de l'artiste : la première se fait au village de Fengjie, bientôt englouti par les eaux à la suite de la construction du barrage des Trois-Gorges. Liu Xiadong y peint les ouvriers au travail et dans la détente. La deuxième met en scènes des jeunes femmes de Bangkok, belles et sensuelles.
Still Life (2006)
, 1h48Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei
Still Life is set in Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of self-deconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coal-miner from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife who ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving, he asks a local motorcyclist to drive him to his former address on "Granite Street." The driver takes him to the river bank, revealing that his entire neighborhood has been flooded since the building of the dam. After a failed attempt to obtain his wife's information from the local municipal office, Han Sanming settles into a local hotel. Sanming's next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wife's elder brother. The brother informs Sanming that his wife and daughter (the real reason for his return) work downriver in Yichang but that if he remains in the city, they will eventually return.