In one of the many fast-growing provinces in East China, immigrants from all around the country come in search of the dream of a better life. However, reality is quite different. The city offers few employment opportunities, poor working and housing conditions, and drives couples into violent and abusive relationships. Xiao Min, Ling Ling, and Lao Yeh are some of the characters of this bitter chronicle about contemporary China. By documentary master Wang Bing. Best screenplay at the Horizons sidebar, Venice Film Festival 2016.
Wang Bing
1967, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Selected filmography: Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Rotterdam Film Festival 2002), He Fengming (Cannes Film Festival 2007), A Journal of Crude Oil (Netpac award at Rotterdam, 2008), The Ditch (Venice Film Festival 2010), Three Sisters (Horizons exhibition best film at the Venice Film Festival 2012), ’Til Madness Do Us Part (Venice, 2013), Father and Sons (2014), and Ta’ang (2016), also screening in this festival.
