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Chinese Independent Documentary
CIDFA004:
Jiang Hu: Life on the Road
Directors: Wu Wenguang
Length: 130min
Production Year: 1999
Synopsis:
“JIANG HU” is translated directly from Chinese to English is “River and Lake”. In Chinese, it means that “the world of out of home”, or “on the road”. This film is about the story of a performing group of farmer on tour. The boss is Old Liu, he found the dance and song performing group with a big tent. He took his two sons, their girlfriends and some young farmers to began the show business on tour. They want to change their existing conditions and their fortune by approaching big cities, but cities always refuse them. They have been staying still on the edge of the modern, including happy and wealthy life.
Won the grant of Jan Vrijman Fund of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 1999
The film has been screened at:
In 1999, Yamagada International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
In 2000, International Forum in New Cinema, Berlin Film Festival
Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland
Singapore International Film Festival
In November, tour screen in the universities of the United States, New York, Bucknell, Yale, Tuftis, Harvard and Chicago