Collection

Oxhide

2 titles · in release order

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.

Oxhide · 2006

Oxhide

★ 6.22006

MovieDramaDocumentary

Director Liu Jiayin casts her parents and herself as fictionalized members of a Beijing family that has fallen on hard times and ekes out an existence by making bags out of oxhide for sale.

Oxhide II · 2009

Oxhide II

★ 6.62009

MovieDramaDocumentary

4 years after Oxhide (2005), director Liu Jiayin and her parents reprise their roles for one night as they make and enjoy dumplings.