A Ordinary Season
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.
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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 (8)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Director of Photography : Wenqing Zhang
- Editors : Cécile Beaulande, Stanislas Koch
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production Manager : Éric Lambert
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Dominique Malige
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Monde rural, Society, Medicine
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- 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
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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