Yang Xiaodan

Often cited as China’s first independent feature film, this low-budget drama, filmed largely in the director’s Beijing apartment, depicts the life of a single mother (a topic considered taboo at the time) caring for her mentally challenged son. Shot with a documentary aesthetic that includes interviews with families of mentally challenged persons, the film helped kick-start the Sixth Generation of filmmakers (including Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke) and their ethos of employing documentary realism to depict the true conditions of contemporary China.

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Love story between three young workers and a girl in a large steel factory.

Little Fanzi, a waitress in a restaurant, is a girl who is not at ease with her job and is full of fantasies. She fantasizes that one day she will be able to take off her "unprofitable waitress uniform" and become a singer and a medical worker.However, reality shatters her fantasy again and again, and Fanzi becomes depressed, hating her job even more and venting her frustration on the customers. Zhang Zhi, a university student who grew up as a childhood friend of Fanzi, is unwilling to watch Fanzi's depression, so he often comes to comfort her, telling her that all work is to serve the people...