MARCH 2024 at the SALON

 Youth (Spring)

The CMU International Film Festival presents the acclaimed new film from one of China's foremost documentarians, Wang Bing.  

 

Youth (Spring) is about young Chinese people who have come from rural areas to work in a garment factory outside Shanghai. Driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines, the film is sensitive to the ordinary:  Relationships form and fall apart. Young women fend off their co-workers’ advances. Managers and employees engage in intense negotiations over piece-work rates.  There are fights over shared washrooms, decisions over whether to quit and go home, and many, many meals of take-out noodles.

 

Filmed over five years, Youth (Spring) is the first of a planned trilogy that follows the characters over decades to come.

Sunday, March 31  3:30p

McConomy Auditorium