Youth (Spring)

Youth (Spring)
Youth (Spring)
	Promotional release poster
Chinese name
Chinese	青春：春
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	qīng chūn: chūn
Directed by	Wang Bing
Produced by	Sonia Buchman; Mao Hui; Nicolas R. de La Mothe; Vincent Wang;
Cinematography	Maeda Yoshitaka; Shan Xiaohui; Song Yang; Liu Xianhui; Ding Bihan; Wang Bing;
Edited by	Dominique Auvray; Xu Bingyuan; Liyo Gong;
Production; companies	House on Fire; Gladys Glover; CS Production; Arte France Cinéma; Les Films Fauves; Volya Films; Eastern-Lion Pictures and Culture Media Co.; Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation; Le Fresnoy;
Distributed by	Cinema Delicatessen (Netherlands); Les Acacias (France);
Release dates	18 May 2023 (Cannes); 16 November 2023 (Netherlands); 3 January 2024 (France);
Running time	212 minutes
Countries	China; France; Luxembourg; Netherlands;
Language	Mandarin

Youth (Spring) (Chinese: 青春：春, romanized: qīng chūn: chūn; French: Jeunesse (Le Printemps)) is a 2023 documentary film directed by Wang Bing. It is an international co-production between China, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The film focuses on a group of young textile workers in the Chinese town of Zhili. It is the first entry in a trilogy of films that follow the same characters over an extended period of time.

The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 18 May 2023. It is the first installment in Wang Bing's Youth trilogy, followed by Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming) in 2024.