The Dossier

Director: Zhu Rikun
China | Chinese, Tibetan
2014 | 128min | Colour
Subtitles: English

Sunday, Nov 2
Clubhouse, 7:45 PM

In the first part of the film, the award-winning Tibetan writer and journalist Tsering Woeser is reading her dossier in full to the camera. A dossier consists of the files collected on a person by the government authorities. Woeser got hold of her dossier only accidentally. According to the Chinese law, citizens have no right to see their own dossiers. The dossier and Woeser herself in various interviews tell the story of her transition from an exemplary Chinese citizen to a supposedly subversive Tibetan writer under house detention.

In the second part the director Zhu accompanies Woeser and her husband, the writer, dissident and democracy activist Wang Lixiong, on their journey from Beijing to Lhasa. On the way and in their apartment the hassle and constant interception by the authorities is documented.

Zhu Rikun

Zhu Rikun (b. 1976) is an independent film director and producer, and a film festival curator. He is the founder and artistic director for Fanhall Films and Fanhall Center for Arts.

Zhu Rikun was born in Guangdong province. In 2001 he founded Fanhall Films for film production, distribution and film festival organizing. He established DOChina – Documentary Film Festival China in 2003, and he is also the co-founder and program director of Beijing Independent Film Festival. In 2007 he co-founded and joined the Huangniutian Film Group. He has been a member of the jury for Hong Kong International Film Festival (2012), Locarno International Film Festival (2011) and CinDi-Seoul Digital Cinema Film Festival.

In 2012 he moved from producing to also directing films and also working as an artist. His first short documentary film Cha Fang (The Questioning) was finished in 2013 and shown in more than twenty international film festivals and won a few prizes like best short documentary award in Festival Dei Popoli.The Dossier is Zhu Rikun’s first feature length documentary film.

Credits

Director: Zhu Rikun
Producer:  Zhu Rikun
Cinematographer: Zhu Rikun, Wang Wo
Editor: Xu Xin
Production Company: Fanhall Films
Cast: Tsering Woeser

Festival Appearances and Awards

Locarno Film Festival, 2014
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2014