LAST HARVEST

By Hui WANG

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Documentary - Completed 2015

Displaced by a powerful state, can this aging farm couple make new roots in their older years, or simply become cogs in a new machine?

Festivals
& Awards

Planet in Focus 2015
Whistler Film Festival 2015
FIFE 2016
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 78 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hui WANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Hui WANG (Redbean Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • Last Harvest follows the remarkable journey of Mr. and Mrs. Xu, an elderly Chinese farming couple, on a forced relocation by the government’s mammoth South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Lyrical and intimate, the film brings us into the life of two compelling peasants facing major disruption late in life. It continues the story where other documentaries left off – after the people have been relocated and have to re-build their lives, and offers a direct experience of the collision between traditional culture and modernization, through which we see the imminent extinction of Old China as New China emerge.