A Ordinary Season

Directed by Wenqing Zhang
Produced by Solferino Images
Genres : Documentary - Runtime : 52 min 8 seconds
Production year : 2009

Director

Wenqing
Zhang

Synopsis

Thong Zhanhai, a local farmer of the village of Xihaigu, in the northwest of China, hopes that his children will leave one day their home town to find a better life somewhere else. The region where they live is indeed a merciless environment, condemning its inhabitants to be among the poorest of China. Every year, in the season of the wheat harvest, he leaves his family to look for work, it is his only solution to be able to pay the education of his children.

About

Film from the colection China awakes.

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A Ordinary Season

Production and distribution

Associate production company : Solferino Images
Foreign production company : Sichuan Television
Film export/Foreign Sales : ICTV Solferino

Full credits

Executive Producer : Michel Noll
Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
Director of Photography : Wenqing Zhang
Production Manager : Éric Lambert
Editors : Cécile Beaulande, Stanislas Koch
Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
Narrator : Dominique Malige

Technical details

Short film
Genres : Documentary
Themes : Monde rural, Society, Medicine
Production language : Chinese
Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
Production year : 2009
Runtime : 52 min 8 seconds
Visa number : 122.328
Visa issue date : 30/01/2009
Production formats : DV-CAM
Screening format : Beta SP - DVD
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Sound format : Mono
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