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Chinese Independent Documentary :
CIDFA019:
Street Life
Directors: Zhao Dayong
Length: 112min
Production Year: 2007
Synopsis：
Nanjing Road is a place of brilliance and amusement in a city dazzling with China’s surging economic growth. But in the back streets, migrants are busy scrounging in the garbage bins, through rubbish left behind by the bustling crowds, to make ends meet. In order to better understand this city, we should begin by looking at their lives.
The film has been screened at:
2007 Berlin/Germanyglobale filmfestival
2007 Documentary Film Festival China
2007 Li Xianting Film Fund
2007 Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival
2007 ASIATICA FILM MEDIALE(ASIATICAFILMMEDIALE)
Director’s Statement：
I cannot shrink away from the powerful impact the flesh and blood facts have had on my spirit.
Ultimately I must resort to a strong subjectivity to explain my times,
and we must examine together this society in which we liv