Xu Tong

Flesh & The Quantum World (2021)

In a nursing home in the northeast of China, the last stages of the lives of the elderly are dramatized. At the same time, the director, as the filmmaker, becomes an actor in this life drama. ...

The Two Shovels (2017)

After "Old Tang Tou", Xu Tong continued to film the family of Old Tang Tou's son, Tang Laosan, in Northeast China. Tang Laosan was sent to prison for a murder case, and Tang Laosan's son, Xiaobao, unexpectedly encountered such a change in the year of his h ...

The Barefoot Doctor (2016)

This documentary film recounts Dr. Sun Lizhe's remarkable experience as a barefoot doctor in rural China and offers a glimpse of China's healthcare condition during and shortly after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Described as "Chinese Dr. Zhivago" i ...

My Distant Xi A Rong Bo (2016)

It's a short documentary about Tang Xiaoyan. ...

Heaven's Will (2014)

A former gangster gains new prestige in his small mining community when he displays an uncanny ability to predict the deaths of people around him. ...

Cut Out The Eyes (2014)

Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his lover/partner Liu Lanlan performing a saucy, bawdy form of musical duet comedy. Er's female audiences are particularly enthralled with his combination of sensuality, Rabelaisian earthiness ...

The Fourth Brother (2013)

Shattered (2011)

A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong's intimate docu "Shattered," in which the maverick indie filmmaker continues to refine his techniques and concerns shown in his previous "Wheat Harvest" and "Fortune Teller. ...

Fortune Teller (2010)

Li Baicheng is a charismatic fortune teller who services a clientele of prostitutes and marginalized figures whose jobs, like his, are commonplace but technically illegal in China. He practices his ancient craft in a village near Beijing while taking care ...

Wheat Harvest (2008)

A documentary film showing the life of Niu Hongmiao, a 20-year-old country girl who is now a prostitute in Beijing. Around the time of wheat harvesting, she goes back home to Dingxing County, Hebei Province to visit her parents. ...

Flesh & The Quantum World (2021)

In a nursing home in the northeast of China, the last stages of the lives of the elderly are dramatized. At the same time, the director, as the filmmaker, becomes an actor in this life drama. ...