Films by Lola Jia Liu

Germany 2021, 95 min
by Lola Jia Liu

'Winners of Life – Glücklich bin ich, wenn du schläfst' is a socio-critical documentary about China's uncompromising performance-oriented society. Lola Jia Liu accompanies two young students* on their way to a secondary school and thus shows a frightening picture of society. How do the children manage to cope with this daily pressure and challenges?

Germany 2016, 98 min
by Lola Jia Liu

Every weekend, Chen Si makes his rounds on the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing to prevent suicide from jumping into death. In the past 10 years, he has saved more than 200 desperate people, most of whom come from the province in search of a better life. They speak openly about the problems they cannot stand any longer. Deceived and degraded by representatives of state power or employers, they are ashamed not to meet the expectations of the family and the self-imposed goals. In the course of the