Zhang Yuan Movies

A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from 1989 until today. It is...

Student film by Wang Xiaoshuai, about a director trying to get his film project realized.

Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan

A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.

The film documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square in 1994, a mere five years after the crushing of a student-led democracy movement in 1989.

A documentary about Li Yang, who tries to teach large numbers of Chinese to speak English, using unusual methods. He holds motivational rallies,...

Ai Jing and Zhang Yuan

The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of...

Cui Jian and Zhang Yuan

After her mother's lecherous boyfriend reveals she's adopted, incorrigible flirt Dada skips town -- with hopelessly smitten boy-next-door Zhou in tow...

Jiang Jie is famous throughout China: the “Chinese Joan of Arc,” in the words of director Zhang Yuan, a communist heroine executed by the...

Luo Qi and Zhang Yuan

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on 35mm film.

2013 short film

This TV documentary recounts the fact that residents of Beijing's old quadrangle refused to move during the process of rebuilding the old city for...

Cui Jian and Zhang Yuan

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a...

Chinese short film directed by Zhang Yuan.