Director/Director
Huo Meng
Screenplay/Screenplay
Huo Meng
Director of Photography/Cinematography
Guo Daming
Editing/Editing
Huo Meng
Cast/Cast
Wang Shang, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong, Zhang Caixia, Cao Lingzhi, Zhou Haotian, Jiang Yien, Wan Zhong, Mao Fuchang, Yang Kaidong
Producer/Producer
Zhang Fan
Production/Production
Floating Light (Foshan) Film and Culture, Shanghai Film Group, Phoenix Legend Films, Bad Rabbit Pictures, Lianray Pictures
World Rights/World Sales
m-appeal
Turkish Rights/Turkish Rights
A FILM
Synopsis:
Living the Land, which won director Huo Meng the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is a realistic, elegant and touching family drama set in a poor village in central China in the early 1990s. It depicts the unique troubles of four generations of the Li family, centered around the funerals of two grandmothers. It explores the concepts of aging, death, future and time through the eyes of a child left with relatives in the village while his parents go to work in the industrialized big city. At the same time, it focuses on the suffering of a young woman under the pressure of the state, which considers female sexuality only as a means of reproduction, and the family, which sees marriage as an economic necessity.
Living the Land, which won director Huo Meng the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is a realistic, elegant, and poignant family drama set in a poor village in central China in the early 1990s. It tells the unique struggles of four generations of the Li family, evolving around the funerals of two grandmothers. It explores the concepts of aging, death, the future, and time through the eyes of a child left with relatives in the village while her parents go to work in the industrialized big city. It also focuses on the suffering of a young woman under the oppression of the state, which treats female sexuality solely as a means of reproduction, and the family, which views marriage as an economic necessity.
