Youth Trilogin (3-Disc DVD Box)

Wang Bing's Youth trilogy is a monumental documentary series that depicts the lives of young workers in the textile industry in Zhili, China, over a period of five years from 2014 to 2019, capturing their grueling work, personal struggles, and moments of hope amid the harsh reality. Over 2,600 hours were filmed, and the result, nearly ten hours in three films, offers an in-depth, empathetic portrait of a generation caught between rural roots and urban exploitation, offering both great cinematic art and sharp social commentary.

YOUTH (SPRING)

IN COMPETITION – CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2023

WINNER – BEST DOCUMENTARY – GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL 2023

WINNER – BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM – LA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION 2023

Every year, a steady stream of young people from all over China flock to the city of Zhili to seek employment in the textile industry. For most of them, this means long working hours, low wages, and accommodation in dormitories. We follow a group of these young people at work and in their free time. They share their dreams for the future, make friends, and fall in love. Everything is observed with a detached gaze by director Wang Bing and his film crew. It has been nineteen years since a documentary last competed at Cannes. The unsentimental Youth (Spring) introduces you to some of the people behind the label "Made in China." The creator is Wang Bing, whose works include Dead Souls, based on interviews with survivors of labor camps for dissidents in northern China, andTie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, which documented industrial workers' struggle for survival when the manufacturing industry was restructured. Youth (Spring)is the first part of a planned trilogy that in its complete form will probably be around ten hours long.nbsp;SvD

* * * * "A kind of generational novel" – DN

"Unique" – Kulturbloggen

”A collective novel in epic documentary film format” – FLM

5/6 ”A unique period” – SvD

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* * * * ”An overwhelming experience” – Time Out

8/10 ”Most important documentation of workers in the Chinese textile industry ever”

– Paste Magazine 

”Fascinating” – Variety

”Absorbing” – Indiewire

”Goes deep with rich portraits” – Little White Lies

”Monumental contribution to the documentary genre” – The Hollywood Reporter