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1966, My Time in The Red Guards
Wu Wenguang | 1993 | 140 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Five former red guards recall the culture revolution that took place in China in the 1960s.
Awards:
Winner of the Ogawa Shinzuke Award, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 1993
Winner of Best Film Award at Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan, 1993
Screenings:
Yamagata...
My Family Tree
Yang Pingdao  | 2008 | 279 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
My mother and father’s families have always lived in two villages close to each other in Guangdong Province. They were farmers with many mouths to feed. The two families often visited each other, especially during Chinese New Year. At the initial stage of Reform and Opening, some of the family gave up their rural ho...
The Starving Village
Zou Xueping | 2010 | 76 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
I was born and raised in the village. Since 2008, I have begun to document my life. Slowly, I began to film my home village. This is my second documentary and it’s about old people. One woman, nearing eighty, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using a cane to walk, to w...
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