PENGFEI (Beijing, 1982) was born into a family of Peking Opera performers in Beijing. Under the influence of his family, he developed a strong passion for the arts. He went to Paris to study film at Institute International de l’Image et du Son and majored in film directing. After seven years of immersion in European culture, which transformed his personality and views on life, he returned to China. Prior to Pengfei’s feature film debut, he directed three short films and was Tsai Ming Liang’s a.d. for Face in 2009, The Diary of a Young Boy, and the short Walker in 2012. Pengfei got his first film made – Underground Fragrance – thanks to the support of Cinemart in 2011, the Cannes’ Atelier in 2012, the Production Award from TorinoFilmLab in 2011, and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab Cinereach Award in 2012.
2015 Underground Fragrance
2007 Le luxe: Portraits d’Humains (short)
2006 Et si tout pouvais recommencer (short)
2005 Entre mon rêve et la réalité (short)
The lives of three people entwine in Beijing’s Underground City. Yong Le, a young migrant worker from the south, salvages furniture to re-sell. He lives in a room in Beijing’s Underground City, a labyrinthian former bomb shelter that serves as cheap housing for people looking for opportunity in the big city. But after a bad work accident leaves him temporarily blind, he has to use a rope to find his way around the dimly lit … Read more