Youth (Spring)

Youth (Spring) (Chinese: 青春, romanized: qīng chūn; French: Jeunesse (Le Printemps)) is a 2023 documentary film directed by Wang Bing.

The film focuses on a group of young textile workers in Zhili, a town in the Wuxing District of Huzhou, located 150 kilometres outside of Shanghai.

Wang Bing will spend a year with them in Zhili: at work, at home, on the Internet, every day of their professional, romantic relationships and friendships.

[3] Wang Bing filmed the people at their workplace, but also followed some of them in the opposite direction to their province of origin, to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families.

[1][6] Youth (Spring) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival,[7] where it had its world premiere on 18 May 2023.

[9] The film was theatrically released in the Netherlands on 16 November 2023 by Cinema Delicatessen,[10] and in France on 3 January 2024 by Les Acacias.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Youth (Spring) presents an earnest and poignant -- if somewhat repetitive -- look at the experiences of Chinese garment workers.