Ji Dan Movies

  • 2009
    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

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

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film
  • 2023
    Baya

    Baya

    Baya

    02023HD

    "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...

    Baya
  • 2013
    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks

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    Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an...

    When the Bough Breaks
  • 2019
    Penalties

    Penalties

    Penalties

    02019HD

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

    Penalties
  • 2019
    Paia

    Paia

    Paia

    02019HD

    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...

    Paia
  • 2016
    Lone Existence

    Lone Existence

    Lone Existence

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    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...

    Lone Existence
  • 2008
    Dream of the Empty City

    Dream of the Empty City

    Dream of the Empty City

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    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...

    Dream of the Empty City
  • 2009
    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    02009HD

    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,...

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin
  • 1999
    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    01999HD

    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...

    Gongbu’s Happy Life
  • 1999
    The Elders

    The Elders

    The Elders

    01999HD

    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...

    The Elders