Ji Dan Movies

  • 2013
    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks

    72013HD

    Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an...

    When the Bough Breaks
  • 2023
    Baya

    Baya

    Baya

    02023HD

    "Baya in the Zhuang language means 'grandmother.' At the end of 2012, I attended a charity lecture in Beijing about left-behind children, where I...

    Baya
  • 2009
    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film

    02009HD

    A very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Furuyashiki Village. They...

    SELF AND OTHERS - Eiga Dojo Workshop film
  • 2009
    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin

    02009HD

    On a hill in Harbin in China's Heilongjiang Province in the director's hometown, a girl neglects her exam preparation in favor of drawing pictures,...

    Spiral Staircase of Harbin
  • 2019
    Penalties

    Penalties

    Penalties

    02019HD

    The time capacity of video works is different. In terms of rhythm and structure, the author will also have different considerations. What is the...

    Penalties
  • 2019
    Paia

    Paia

    Paia

    02019HD

    Paia means old grandmother in Duan dialect of Zhuang language. I know that the Paya in the film was at a lecture about left-behind children at Pudao...

    Paia
  • 2016
    Lone Existence

    Lone Existence

    Lone Existence

    02016HD

    For years he has stayed behind closed doors without leaving his home, uttering nothing to anyone. The desire to communicate and the energy to act...

    Lone Existence
  • 2008
    Dream of the Empty City

    Dream of the Empty City

    Dream of the Empty City

    02008HD

    An old man in hospice care tells his life story from beginning to end, of Peking Opera and singer Ma Lianliang, and of the humiliation and...

    Dream of the Empty City
  • 1999
    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    Gongbu’s Happy Life

    01999HD

    There are various pressures in Kampot's life. For example, he hopes that his wife will help him to have a son after six consecutive daughters; he is...

    Gongbu’s Happy Life
  • 1999
    The Elders

    The Elders

    The Elders

    01999HD

    In the mid-1980s, a dozen old people in Old Latse Village in Shigatse, Tibet, voluntarily organized the reconstruction of the Gyang Temple, which was...

    The Elders