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The dGenerate Films Collection

dGenerate Films is the leading distributor of contemporary independent film from mainland China. All of the dGenerate Films titles on Docuseek2 are included in this collection. The films feature unique, personal views of life today in the world's second largest economy and most populous country.

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The dGenerate Films Collection includes the following titles:

Oxhide - imageOxhide

An intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese family in Beijing.

dGenerate Films | 2005 | 110 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
The East Wind State Farm - imageThe East Wind State Farm

Condemned "Rightists" sentenced "thought reform" share first-person accounts of life in a notorious Chinese labor camp.

dGenerate Films | 2009 | 101 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Iron Ministry - imageThe Iron Ministry

Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, traces the vast interiors of China on the move.

dGenerate Films | 2014 | 83 minutes
Blue Island - imageBlue Island

This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.

dGenerate Films | 2022 | 98 minutes
Karamay - imageKaramay

In Karamay, filmmaker Xu Xin helps a community break the silence nearly two decades after a horrible fire killed nearly 300 schoolchildren.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 356 minutes | 10-12, college, adult
Late Summer - imageLate Summer

LATE SUMMER captures a centuries-old Beijing theatre in its incarnation as a modern-day transient space.

dGenerate Films | 2016 | 13 minutes
Taking Back the Legislature - imageTaking Back the Legislature

This day went down in history as the day Hong Kong pro-democracy fighters stormed the legislative council and in the assembly hall delivered the Hong Kong Protest Manifesto for the first time.

dGenerate Films | 2021 | 46 minutes
Meishi Street - imageMeishi Street

Ordinary citizens take a stand against the planned destruction of their homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 85 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Observer - imageThe Observer

China is doing everything in its power to silence filmmaker Hu Jie, but he remains on his lonely mission to document the country's true history.

dGenerate Films | 2019 | 78 minutes
Of Shadows - imageOf Shadows

Set in China’s Loess Plateau, OF SHADOWS captures the liveliness and resilience of a group of local shadow play artists.

dGenerate Films | 2016 | 79 minutes

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