The first film made entirely in Dong language and featuring non-professional actors looks at a slowly disappearing way of life in rural China.
PRICES
Everyone: FREE
Sunday, July 13, 2014
1:00PM – 2:30PM
Studio Theatre
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
The Rice Paddy
In a small mountain village in southern China lives A Qiu, a 12-year-old girl with high hopes of becoming a writer and traveling the world. But life is tough in the autonomous Guangxi province, home of the Dong people, and her dreams seem hard to reach. Her parents have left to work in the city, and A Qiu and her little brother stay with their grandparents. They go to school and help tend the family’s rice paddy every day.
When the grandmother suddenly dies, the parents have to come home to work at the rice paddy, but life is constant struggle to make ends meat. Through A Qiu’s diary notes we follow her ups and downs during one eventful year, through different weather conditions and rice seasons. The story is filmed with villagers, non-professional actors, playing the characters. This touching psychological story is the first movie to be filmed entirely in the Dong language.