Beijing. Taipei

Ma Zhandong

Release year: 2014

Run time: 15 minutes

Film type: Documentary

A dialogue between the everyday lives of two cities at a time of political sensitivity.

In a sensitive period, on the same day of the same year, and every hour, randomly record the daily life of two cities (and their inhabitants): the familiar and the unfamiliar, similarities and differences.

After eliminating the ideological, can people’s everyday lives transcend politics?

Ma Zhandong is an independent documentary producer who has filmed and produced tens of documentary films, long and short. His works have been screened at film festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, France, Japan and Hong Kong. He has also made short art films and videos. He was interviewed by ARTE in 2009. He served as a final film juror for the 14th Beijing Independent Film Exhibition in China and as a shortlisting juror for the 12th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition.

His work One Day in May won the best documentary award in 2011 at the Chinese Documentary Festival in Hong Kong. Lao Zhao won the Documentary Humanitarian Award at the 12th China Independent Film Festival. Everybody is Nobody won the 33th ATP Award for Excellence in Tokyo).

Now he lives and works in Chengdu, China.

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