Zhang Xianmin
Biography
Zhang Xianmin, professor of Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy, independent film critic and curator. He is a judge for film festivals and competitions such as Hong Kong, Taipei, Busan, Yunzhinan, and China Documentary Exchange Week. Organizing exhibitions of Chinese independent films in Brazil, Italy, South Korea, Austria and other countries.
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Ruo Gu
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Mai Qiang
A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Xin Qiji
Four wraithlike figures of different ages and pasts, haunted by memory, drift along Nanjing's wintry riverbanks. They share an abandoned ruin where talk turns to poetry, painterly pauses, instrumental reveries and the unabashed group therapy of karaoke.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Shi Xianshu
A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Zhang Xinming
Gu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by new friend, photographer Ouyang Wenhui, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Zhangxian
Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test when her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness caused by unsafe working conditions.