Zhao Liang Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

Directed by Wenji Teng

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

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...

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

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,...

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

2000 short video work by Zhao Liang

An Atonal commissioned video work from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang was shot on-site in Chernobyl, northern Ukraine. The work focuses on...

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....