Youth (Hard Times)

Release date: 2025-04-02
Runtime: 227
Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands

In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.

Director: Wang Bing

Genre: Documentary