Ai Xiaoming

Jiabiangou Elegy: Life and Death of the Rightists (2017)

Jiabiangou Elegy recounts the persecution of inmates at the Jiabiangou labor camp in Jiuquan, Gansu province, and examines the way the victims' final affairs were handled. During the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–59, over three thousand people were sent ...

New Citizen's Trial (2014)

Remembering Liu Xia (2013)

It is an interview with Liu Xia ...

Children of God (2013)

The two video segments, "Meizhou" and "Dongshankou," are sporadic records of the hardships faced by the Zhang Qing family. I have titled them "Children of God," praying that God watches over them, as Zhang Qing wished, for they are all God's children. ...

Three Days in Wukan (2012)

the disappointments and hopes of Wukan villagers at the height of their dramatic protests against the government's seizure of their farmland. Ai and a group of volunteers secretly entered the village on December 19, 2011, the day Shanwei City Party Secreta ...

Postcard (2011)

On the morning of September 9, 2011, at 9:30 am, the Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing rendered a first-instance verdict on the case of Wang Lihong, charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," at the Wenyu River courtroom. Wang Lihong' ...

Come Home, Tian Xi (2011)

Let the Sunshine Break Up Darkness (2011)

Pasture of the Soul (2011)

Enemy of the State (2010)

Why the Flowers Are So Red (2010)

An Investigation by Citizens (2010)

In late August 2008, following the 100th day of the Sichuan Earthquake, rescue teams began to withdraw and the media ceased to report on the disasters at the schools. Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren and local volunteers were still rushing from one c ...

The River of Forgetting (2010)

The Train To My Hometown (2009)

Our Children (2009)

Red Art (2008)

The launch and development of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution not only has a series of CCP Central Committee documents that have promoted wave after wave of movements, but also has various propaganda methods. A large number of different types of ...

People’s Delegate YAO Lifa (2007)

Garden in Heaven (2007)

By following the case of Huang Jing, a woman teacher who died of date rape, this documentary captures changes in China between 2003 and 2005, before and after the injunction to respect and protect human rights was incorporated into the constitution. By hig ...

Tayuan (2007)

Tayuan is the location of the first museum of the Cultural Revolution in China. However, this important Cultural Revolution museum was established with private funds. The reason for its construction here is that there is a tomb of the victims of the Cultur ...

Care and Love (2007)

Liu Xianhong, a Hebei peasant, contracted HIV from a routine hospital blood transfusion. This documentary is the story of her arduous but successful litigation against the hospital responsible. The film documents the fates of several families infected with ...

The Epic Of The Central Plains (2006)

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, in an attempt to stop the spread of AIDS, the Chinese government sought a "purer" blood supply from its rural population. Burdened by agricultural taxes and rising costs of education and health care, many peasants sold bl ...

Sex，Gender And Rights in Asia (2006)

Taishi Village (2005)

Recounts the struggle of the villagers of Taishi against local authorities in 2005. ...

Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County (2005)

Hu County, in suburban Xi'an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly famous during the Cultural Revolution, when these works were hailed as model paintings. In 2005, the directors visited ...

The White Ribbon (2004)

In the spring of 2004, a female graduate student was killed at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, but it was confirmed on the school's website that girls should not refuse male love. This film documents how Chinese professor Ai Xiaoming led the fight bac ...

The Vagina Monologues (2004)

Outcry and Whisper (2020)

Shot over an eight-year period (2007-2015), this documentary film aims to present women's struggle in the private and public spheres, both in China and Hong Kong. It offers a view into the lives of female factory workers, artists, rights activists, and int ...