It’s an interesting take on an overly populated sub-genre, but one that does not leave Jing anywhere to go after a certain juncture. As such, the film engages in choice repetitions or goes off ...

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“A complete shock that changed how I see the world,” Yi says of the bewildering but exhilarating experience of diving into his friend’s vault of cinema classics. “I had no idea movies ...

First-time Chinese director Jing Yi can pinpoint the precise moment that led him to become a filmmaker. The 31-year-old was born and raised in a tiny village in the dry grasslands of China’s ...

Photo via Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa. Meanwhile, Zhi Wu Xue Jia (The Botanist) is an experimental feature directed by Jing Yi. Its world premiere marks the director’s debut, and it tackles a ...

Berlin: A lonely Kazakh boy communes with nature in Jing Yi's evocative debut, from the producer of "Kaili Blues" and "Long Day's Journey into Night." Jing situates “The Botanist” in a woozy ...

In many ways, writer-director Jing Yi’s graceful and ephemeral drama, The Botanist (Zhi Wu Xue Jia), plays out like your typical coming-of-age movie. It’s about a lonely kid, raised by his ...

First-time director Jing Yi sets his feature in the northern province of Xinjiang, in a remote community just across the border from Kazakhstan. By Jordan Mintzer In many ways, writer ...