China´s changing landscape star of documentary shown at Busan International Film Festival
(WorldNews Music)

True to form, this year’s Busan International Film Festival, in South Korea, which ended yesterday, once again played host to new Chinese-produced movies of various styles and stripes. On the one hand, there was mainstream fare in the shape Xu Zheng’s Dying to Survive and Huang Bo’s The Island, summer comedies that grossed 3.1 billion yuan (US$448 million) and 1.4 billion yuan, respectively. Also showing were auteur-driven works such as Jia Zhangke’s Ash is......