Xiao'er Gan

Directing

Xiao'er Gan

Place of birth

Xinxiang, Henan, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Gan Xiaoer, born in Xinxiang City, Henan Province in 1970, is a film director and screenwriter in Mainland China. He graduated from Henan University of Economics and Law and Beijing Film Academy.

Known for

Behind the camera

Scholars Under Fire poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scholars Under Fire

2025

Scholars Under Fire poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scholars Under Fire

2025

Church Cinema poster
NR

In the summer of 2007, Gan Xiaoer led an independent film projection team, using projectors and self-made screens, to tour villages in Henan province to show his feature film "Raised from dust" for 8 times, and recorded the process. The 81-minute version of Church Cinema records only one stop, the Qiliying Church, where "Raised from dust" was shot.

Church Cinema

2009

No artwork available
NR

A boy with horns gathers a group of Cosers, each armed with the same traditional woodworking tools, from the grocery store, the old cathedral, the gatehouse, the forest, the farmyard, the electric mahjong parlour, the old castle and so on. At midnight, with clumsy labor, they made a huge cross.

Fear and Trembling

2009

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reflection and Reaction

2011

Waiting for God poster
NR

A day of Xiaoyang, the curator of a village church. Xiaoyang and her husband have just registered their marriage, but they cannot hold a wedding in the church for her husband is not a Christian. Before the wedding, she is waiting for her husband’s baptism.

Waiting for God

2012

Raised from Dust poster
10.0

Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test when her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness caused by unsafe working conditions.

Raised from Dust

2007

Raised from Dust poster
10.0

Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test when her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness caused by unsafe working conditions.

Raised from Dust

2007

No artwork available
NR

One boy, one girl. One close space, one silent night. What is the relation between them? The great works in art history structure, influence their relations, and show us something. At the same time, the boy and the girl convey their experience and taste on these works. Usually, a boy and a girl will make love to end a scene or a film, but it didn’t happen. It seems that they spend the night clearly, but the tomorrow is still unknown.

Not Too Close, Not Too Detached

2005

No artwork available
9.0

The film is about the north of Guangdong a village farmer water life tragic story, in order to live, in order to be able to let his sister read, in order to be able to raise money to keep the death penalty brother. Sell blood, sell son, even sell his wife, finally sister did not continue to read and ran to Shenzhen to work, made the death penalty brother finally also can not keep life, A water finally because of selling blood got ghost guy died, and her wife Autumn Moon also died in the charcoal under the waterfall pool

THE ONLY SONS

2003

No artwork available
9.0

The film is about the north of Guangdong a village farmer water life tragic story, in order to live, in order to be able to let his sister read, in order to be able to raise money to keep the death penalty brother. Sell blood, sell son, even sell his wife, finally sister did not continue to read and ran to Shenzhen to work, made the death penalty brother finally also can not keep life, A water finally because of selling blood got ghost guy died, and her wife Autumn Moon also died in the charcoal under the waterfall pool

THE ONLY SONS

2003