Synopsis
In the region Jiang-Jong, in China, illiterate farmers developed their own secret language, the Nu Shu, which means feminine writing. In this upsetting documentary , centred on Huan-Yi Yang, an eighty-six-year-old woman, the only person living who knows how to read and write the Nu Shu, reveals a culture arisen from the resistance in the male domination.
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 : Yue-Qing Yang
- Director of photography : Yue-Qing Yang
- Editors : Paul Lievesley, Isabelle Collin
- Sound Recordist : Dale Darlington
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Voice-overs : Sylvie Herbert, Jean Leclerc, Cécile Magnet
- Production managers : Brian Hamilton, Éric Lambert
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Education, Society
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 55 min 57 seconds
- Visa number : 122.320
- Visa issue date : 16/01/2009
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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