{"id":21820,"date":"2025-04-25T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:30:55","slug":"youth-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/youth-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH (SPRING)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YOUTH (SPRING)<\/h2>\n

| 2023 \u2013 215\u2032 \u2013\u00a0 A China\/France co-production, Documentary.
\nWritten by:\u00a0Wang Bing.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Wang Bing.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2023, New York International Film Festival 2023, Toronto International Film Festival 2023.
\nIn Mandarin with English subtitles.
\nAn\u00a0Icarus Films\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

The first part of a trilogy, Youth (Spring) is a documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines \u2014 just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays. The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children\u2019s garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in sparse, trash-strewn concrete dorms in the same buildings as the small factories where they spend their days sewing leggings, shorts, fluffy skirts, and jackets with Mickey Mouse hoods. A remarkably intimate documentary filmed over five years, Youth (Spring) takes us into these independent workshops \u2014 many on a street named Happiness Road. Relationships form and fall apart. Young women fend off their co-workers\u2019 advances. Managers and employees engage in intense negotiations over piece-work rates. Unexpected pregnancies throw couples and their families into turmoil. There are fights over shared washrooms, decisions over whether to stay or quit and go home, and many, many meals of take-out noodles. Youth is not an expos\u00e9 of the garment industry. Instead, it draws us into the lives of its subjects \u2014 young people who don\u2019t make their beds, worry about having the latest iPhone, and occasionally engage in a food fight. Like so many of us, they\u2019re doing the best they can in a challenging environment.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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