In many ways, writer-director Jing Yi’s graceful and ephemeral drama, The Botanist (Zhi Wu Xue Jia), plays out like your typical coming-of-age movie.It’s about a lonely kid, raised by his ...

Paul Simon would likely describe Arsin (Yesl Jahseleh), the young Kazakh boy at the center of Jing Yi’s feature debut “The Botanist,” as the only living boy in Xinjiang.Lonely and ...

First-time Chinese director Jing Yi can pinpoint the precise moment that led him to become a filmmaker. The 31-year-old was born and raised in a tiny village in the dry grasslands of China’s ...

First-time Chinese director Jing Yi can pinpoint the precise moment that led him to become a filmmaker. The 31-year-old was born and raised in a tiny village in the dry grasslands of China's ...