Theatrical release: ‘Youth (Spring)’

By   |  Nov 9, 2023

Icarus Films are bringing the 2023 Chinese documentary ‘Youth (Spring)’ (青春) to the Metrograph Theater in New York on November 10, 2023.

Directed by Wang Bing, 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.

Synopsis: The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children’s garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in sparse, trash-strewn concrete dorms in the same buildings as the small factories where they spend their days sewing leggings, shorts, fluffy skirts, and jackets with Mickey Mouse hoods. Relationships form and fall apart. Young women fend off their co-workers’ advances. Managers and employees engage in intense negotiations over piece-work rates. Unexpected pregnancies throw couples and their families into turmoil. There are fights over shared washrooms, decisions over whether to stay or quit and go home, and many, many meals of take-out noodles.

For full details or to book tickets, visit metrograph.com.

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