Youth (Spring)

Youth (Spring) (2023)

青春（春）

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.

Date of release
2023-11-10
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (16)
Runtime
3h 32m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Wang Bing
Collection
Youth Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Youth (Spring) (Chinese: 青春：春, romanized: qīng chūn: chūn; French: Jeunesse (Le Printemps)) is a 2023 documentary film directed by Wang Bing. It is an international co-production between China, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The film focuses on a group of young textile workers in the Chinese town of Zhili. It is the first entry in a trilogy of films that follow the same characters over an extended period of time.

Production

The film was shot in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, from 2014 to 2019. Wang Bing shot the film in the Zhili, a manufacturing town in Huzhou City. Zhili is the same location where Wang Bing shot his 2016 film Bitter Money. Youth (Spring) also covers the same subject – young workers in the textile workshops. However, the films do not focus on the same people.

Youth (Spring) the first entry in a trilogy of films that follow the same characters over an extended period of time. Wang Bing filmed the people at their workplace, but also followed some of them in the opposite direction to their province of origin, to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families.

The film is produced by House on Fire, Gladys Glover and CS Production, in co-production Arte France Cinéma, Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg), Volya Films (Netherlands), Eastern-Lion Pictures and Culture Media Co., Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains.

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