Li Yu Movies

Western European filmmakers Solveig Klassen (from Germany) and Katharina Scheneider-Roos (from Austria) travel to China to direct the documentary film My Camera Doesn't Lie. Shot with digital video, the film is an intimate portrait of several Chinese filmmakers belonging to the "Sixth Generation," a film movement of young (thirtysomething) directors who choose to focus on personal stories about regular people's lives. Some of the directors include Jia Zhangke, Wang Chao, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, and Li Hao. Despite being world-renowned filmmakers, they tend live in humble apartment dwellings with relatively poor working conditions that often resemble the subjects of their films. Critic Cheng Quingsong offers some historical perspective. My Camera Doesn't Lie was shown at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

In 1949, a small Chinese fishing village populated almost entirely by women awaits the establishment of a government by the newly victorious communist regime. In addition to other worries, the villagers wonder how the government will react to their traditional customs, which decree that wives may only see their husbands three times a year, and the circumstances under which they are permitted to become pregant are very limited. In addition, those who are caught violating these rules are drowned. The almost exclusively female population of the village is explained by the fact that most of the male population died during an ocean storm. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi