Wang Xiaoshuai

Director

Films in the Archive

Red Amnesia

Chuangru zhe

Wang Xiaoshuai

An elderly woman is haunted by the sacrifices she made for her family in this tense, moving and beautifully acted drama that highlights historic amnesia and the growing generation gap in contemporary China.

11 Flowers

Wo 11

Wang Xiaoshuai

An archetypal tale of an 11-year-old village boy’s misadventures illuminates director Wang Xiaoshuai’s moving recollection of his own childhood during the Cultural Revolution. “A stirring evocation of childhood.” — Variety

Shanghai Dreams

Qinghong

Wang Xiaoshuai

Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes this year, Shanghai Dreams unfolds around two teenage girls who don’t want to leave the tough country town they’ve grown up in.