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THE FADING VILLAGE

CHUN QU DONG LAI

By Feifang LIU

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Social issues - Completed 2019

54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2019

28th International Festival of Ethnological Film 2019

35th Haifa International Film Festival, 2019

33th Leeds International Film Festival 2019

Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Cinema Verite 2019

DokuFest, Int’l Documentary and Short Film Festival 2019

Visions du Réel 2020

Media Library

USA WorldFest-Houston IFF 2020

Special Jury Remi Award

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Social issues, Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- CHINA
- Languages
- CHINESE
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 172 mn
- Director(s)
- Feifang LIU
- Producer(s)
- Yijing GU (SHANGHAI HAOJIN FILM CENTER), Guanming LIU (SHANGHAI HAOJIN FILM CENTER)
- Synopsis
- China’s social changes greatly influence the fate of the farmers and the state of the village. The old people in the village stick to the land, making a living by farming. Young people escape from the land, trying to survive in cities. 35-years-old Hou Junlin is the only young man in the village. Unlike the other young people, Hou Junli has not left for the city but has remained with his family in their forlorn mountain village. Just as elsewhere in the country, members of the younger generation living in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi must leave their homes because traditional work can no longer provide them a sustainable wage. The dilapidated houses continue to resist the snow and rain, but how long can the village survive if all family ties have been severed? This long-term observational documentary presents an engaging and comprehensive look at one year in the life of humble people who love their birthplace despite its harsh realities.