Completed - MANDARIN - Documentary - 78 minutes
Displaced by a powerful state, can this aging farm couple make new roots in their older years, or simply become cogs in a new machine?
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Hui WANG Producer(s) : Hui WANG (Redbean Productions)
Last Harvest follows the remarkable journey of Mr. and Mrs. Xu, an elderly Chinese farming couple, on a forced relocation by the government’s mammoth South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Lyrical and intimate, the film brings us into the life of two compelling peasants facing major disruption late in life. It continues the story where other documentaries left off – after the people have been relocated and have to re-build their lives, and offers a direct experience of the collision between traditional culture and modernization, through which we see the imminent extinction of Old China as New China emerge.
Country(ies) : CANADA
DocCorner 2016Whistler Film Festival 2015Planet in Focus 2015FIFE 2016