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Screenings and Q&A with documentary film directors Xu Tong and Ji Dan
This year’s Gothenburg film festival is hosting a special screening of Chinese documentary films. We are bringing two of the directors to Lund for screenings and discussions about their films and documentary film-making.
Wednesday 1 February, 14.15-17.00
Screening of Shattered and Q&A with director Xu Tong and main character Tang Caifeng.
Thursday 2 February, 13.15-16.30
Screening of When the Bough Breaks and Q&A with director Ji Dan
Synopsis Shattered
Tang Caifeng (also known as Tang Xiaoyan) left home a long time ago. She has mingled around in society for many years, but things haven’t gone too well for her. This winter, she went back to her hometown in North East China alone. She wanted to have a happy reunion for the Chinese New Year with her eighty-year-old father, Old Man Tang.
With Chinese New Year's eve approaching, Old Man Tang's other children also started to come back home for a happy family reunion. But things weren't merry for long. They began quarreling and finally began leaving one by one, leaving Old Man Tang by himself to wait for his last days.
In this wretched winter, Old Man Tang tells his life story in fragments... During this winter, heavy snowfalls fell, some wild jokes were made, and dim memories of the past red revolution were recalled… It was such a terribly cold and unimaginably queer winter.
In the end, Tang Caifeng left home again. An uncertain future awaits her.
Synopsis When the Bough Breaks
A group of migrant children have grown up next to a rubbish dumpsite in Daxing in the southern suburbs of Beijing. As high-rise buildings begin to encroach
upon their shanty settlement and threaten to swallow up their makeshift hut, the children are faced with a predicament: should they continue their studies or submit to the early onset of adulthood?
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Screening of Shattered and Q&A with director Xu Tong and main character Tang Caifeng.
Time: Wednesday, 1 February, 14.15-17.00
Place: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Scheelevägen 15B (Alfa 1 building), Alfa 1010 Hall
Screening of When the Bough Breaks and Q&A with director Ji Dan
Time: Thursday, 2 February, 13.15-16.30
Place: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Scheelevägen 15B (Alfa 1 building), Alfa 1010 Hall