YOUTH (SPRING) / QINGCHUN (France-Luxemburg-the Netherlands-Hong Kong, 2023, 212′)

Saturday, October 4th, at 7:00 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 3 

Event in collaboration with Turin National Cinema Museum

On Saturday, October 4th, at 7:00 p.m., in Room 3 of the Cinema Massimo, in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum, there will be a screening of Youth (Spring) (France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2023) by Wang Bing . The first chapter in the director’s trilogy of documentaries dedicated to workers in the Chinese textile industry, the movie was in competition at Cannes in 2023 and is the result of three years of work and more than 2 600 hours of footage shot in the industrial district of Zhili, which has around 20 000 textile laboratories. 

Admission method : you can access the event by purchasing tickets online or at Cinema Massimo box office.

International title: Youth (Spring)
Original title: Qingchun
Director: Wang Bing
Screenplay: Wang Bing
Photography: Maeda Yoshitaka, Shan Xiaohui, Song Yang, Liu Xianhui, Ding Bihan, Wang Bing
Editing: Dominique Auvray, Xu Bingyuan, Liyo Gong
Production: House on Fire, Gladys Glover Films, CS Productions

Zhili is a working-class district not far from Shanghai, China’s richest city. There are hundreds of textile factories that produce eighty percent of children’s clothing for the Chinese market. Every year, many young workers leave their villages to move there. These workers, aged 17 to 20, come from the rural province of Yunnan. Working conditions are unbearable: sleeping above their workplace in unsanitary rooms. Although they live as if they were adults, they are simply young people who just want to make time to be together, laugh, fight for their rights, while looking for a better future.
Created by Wang Bing – one of the sharpest filmmakers not only in China but at international level -, Youth (Spring) represents the first chapter of a trilogy about the world of work in contemporary China.

Wang Bing (Xi’an, 1967), filmmaker, photographer, video artist, is a reference point of documentary cinema at international level, an author who polishes every shot, capturing every single different layer with both precision and truthfulness. An artistic and human path that renews itself from one film to the next. His filmography, in which the observation of the world of work becomes the most salient, started in 2002. With his films, Wang has participated at the most famous International Film Festivals.

Filmography (selection): Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (doc, 2007), Crude Oil (doc, 2008), The Ditch (2010), Three Sisters (doc, 2012), ?’Til Madness Do Us Part (doc, 2013), Father and Sons (doc, 2014), Ta’ang (doc, 2016), Bitter Money (doc, 2016), Madame Fang (doc, 2017), Dead Souls (doc, 2018), Beauty Lives in Freedom (doc, 2018), Youth (Spring) (doc, 2023), Man in Black (doc, 2023), Youth (Hard Times) (doc, 2024), Youth (Homecoming) (doc, 2024).