Ji Dan

Most Popular Ji Dan Trailers

Total trailers found: 11

SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film Trailer (2009)

16 October 2009

A very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Furuyashiki Village.

Paia Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

Paia means old grandmother in Duan dialect of Zhuang language. I know that the Paya in the film was at a lecture about left-behind children at Pudao Caotang Bookstore in Nanluogu Lane, Beijing.

Spiral Staircase of Harbin Trailer (2009)

09 October 2009

On a hill in Harbin in China's Heilongjiang Province in the director's hometown, a girl neglects her exam preparation in favor of drawing pictures, and her mother wants her to study.

Baya Trailer (2023)

29 September 2023

"Baya in the Zhuang language means 'grandmother.' At the end of 2012, I attended a charity lecture in Beijing about left-behind children, where I heard the story of Baya and the grandchildren she raised.

The Elders Trailer (1999)

16 June 1999

In the mid-1980s, a dozen old people in Old Latse Village in Shigatse, Tibet, voluntarily organized the reconstruction of the Gyang Temple, which was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.

Lone Existence Trailer (2016)

01 October 2016

For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate and the energy to act have completely vanished, and the opportunity to change is dim and distant.

Penalties Trailer (2019)

07 January 2019

The time capacity of video works is different. In terms of rhythm and structure, the author will also have different considerations.

Framing Her Trailer (2026)

01 May 2026

A young filmmaker travels across Asia to document independent women directors, but their stories bring her own past to the surface.

Gongbu’s Happy Life Trailer (1999)

21 March 1999

There are various pressures in Kampot's life. For example, he hopes that his wife will help him to have a son after six consecutive daughters; he is upset by the bank loan he owes for buying a tractor, and he is also worried about working outside.

When the Bough Breaks Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an education, is exhilarating, heart breaking, life affirming, shocking, despairing and ecstatic, all at once.

Dream of the Empty City Trailer (2008)

19 June 2008

An old man in hospice care tells his life story from beginning to end, of Peking Opera and singer Ma Lianliang, and of the humiliation and desperation of old age.