Banned in China, Independent Chinese Films Come to New York

Three years ago this week I watched the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival crumble under the weight of official fear—fear that the gritty low-budget, experimental dramas and documentaries screening in a remote Beijing suburb reflected a touch more truth about life in China than was permissible at the city’s gleaming downtown cineplexes; fear that these films would thus

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