Liu Bingjian
Filmography :
1996 : Yanchuang, Inkstone
1999 : Men and Women
2002 : Cry Woman
Intervention :
Liu Bingjian was born in Anhui in 1963. A painter by training, he studied cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. After graduating, he worked in television before directing his first film, Inkstone (1995), which was neither screened in China nor abroad. His second film, Men and Women, received the Critics' Prize at the 52nd Locarno Film Festival. Filmed clandestinely and produced independently, it addressed the issue of Chinese homosexuality for the first time with humor and realism. Then he shot Cry Woman in 2002, Plastic Flowers in 2005, and The Back in 2010.
