Directing
Community Rating
5.2
TMDB estimate
Born
October 23, 1959 (age 66)
Born in
Beijing - China
Born in Beijing in 1959, Ning Ying was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 together with many of the filmmakers of China’s Fifth Generation. She left China for Italy in 1980 and completed her film training at the Rome Film Experimental Academy in 1986. After returning to China in 1987, she worked as Bernardo Bertolucci’s assistant director for The Last Emperor. She made her directorial debut with Someone Loves Just Me, and then directed her “Beijing Trilogy”: For Fun, On the Beat, and I Love Beijing. Together, the films are an analysis of the massive changes that China’s national capital had undergone over the previous decades. Ning started venturing into documentaries with a series of shorts for UNICEF. Her first feature-length documentary Railroad of Hope, which follows the mass migration of cheap labor between Sichuan and Xinjiang, won the Grand Prize at the 2002 Cinema du Réel festival in Paris.
Father
as Producer
2020
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The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up
2018
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Romance Out Of The Blue
as Director
2015
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To Live and Die in Ordos
as Writer, Director
2013
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Kung Fu Man
as Director
2012
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Unwordly
as Director
2010
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The Double Life
as Director
2010
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Perpetual Motion
as Director
2005
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Looking for a Job in the City
as Writer, Director
2003
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Railroad of Hope
as Director
2002
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Commune by the Great Wall
as Director
2002
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I Love Beijing
as Director, Editor, Writer
2001
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Duling - Turin
as Writer, Director
1996
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On the Beat
as Director, Screenplay, Editor
1995
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For Fun
as Director, Writer
1993
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Someone Loves Just Me
as Director
1990
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The Case of the Silver Snake
as Assistant Director
1988
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The Last Emperor
as Assistant Director
1987
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