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Date: May 4th
Location: The other cinema, 11 Rupert St. London W1
Events:
Ou Dede and His Daughters (Wang Qinze, 2003, 50 mins)
Wang Qinze is almost unique in China: an independent filmmaker. Using his own money, Qinze spent 6 months in the depths of Southern China to bring back an extraordinarily moving story of the end of a culture. Ou Dede is the village musician and repository of the Nu tribe’s culture. Through him and his family, the film offers a moving portrait of how the whole tribe, who still hunt with bows and arrows, is being dragged into the 21st Century.
Railroad of Hope (Ning Ying. 55mins)
Sichuan peasants scramble to get a place on a 3-day train ride to harvest cotton in China’s far west. They have invested all on their ticket, desperately hoping for a better life, an escape from a world of oppression. The film offers a rare and intimate portrait of life for the peasant workers in China today.
Far and Near (Dir: Xiaolu Guo, 22 mins, 2002)
Leaving China to escape to anywhere, a young Chinese woman finds herself in the wild mountains of Wales. Through the landscape and the people she meets, she enters a world of memory and re-evaluation.
Discussion With Ning Ying and Xiaolu Guo and Angus MacQueen.
Hope to see you there!