Synopsis
The last Chinese semi-nomads live in the province of Guangxi, in the southwest of China. Every two or three generations, they make a migration of several hundreds of kilometers. The tribe of Guoshans, which we are going to follow in this movie, are part of the ethnic group of Yaos. Its consists of twenty three families which, at the end of the nineties, lived on hunting and on collecting.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Solferino Images
- Foreign production company : Sichuan Radio & Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Écrans des Mondes (ICTV)
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Screenwriter : Lingping Huang
- Director of Photography : Lingping Huang
- Editor : Axelle Schatz
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Lafuma
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production Manager : Éric Lambert
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Dominique Malige
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 52 min
- Visa number : 122.327
- Visa issue date : 15/01/2009
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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