Zhao Liang Movies

Zhao Liang’s film portrays AIDS sufferers of both genders; they are all people with very different biographies. As if it wasn’t bad...

In a small southern frontier town, an old man called “Nail Li” boasts about his chess skills by nailing a general piece to the board,...

With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as...

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the masked figure who appears like a kind of...

Return to the Border is a documentary directed by Zhao Liang about his return to his hometown in China that borders the Yalu river and North Korea....

Paper Airplane is a feature-length documentary that looks at the breakdown of China’s socialist systems, which had previously provided jobs and...

SYNOPSIS Towards the end of 1989, several artists moved to an area near the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, the former Beijing Summer Palace. Farewell,...

More than 30 years ago, when the nuclear disastee occurred in Chernobyl, Maria was over 50. Her village was within the 30 kilometres restricted area....

In a small town near China's North Korea border, a state police station exerts itself as a solicitous caretaker of the locals. As it goes out to...

Zhao Liang’s City Scene shows a poetic portrait of China’s contemporary metropolises.

Using the format of music videos, Zhao films an actor running through the remnants of a traditional Beijing neighborhood that is in the process of...

2000 short video work by Zhao Liang

The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct...