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Survival Song (0+)

For the best film of the festival Grand Prix “Big Golden Nanook”; FIPRESCI Jury prize “Silver Nanook”
China , 2008, colour, 94 min.
Director: Yu Guangyi
In the snowbound wilderness of the Changbai mountain range, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, we find an unusual family: a hunter, his wife, a vagrant named Xiao Li, two dogs and a cat. They live together in a decrepit house in an abandoned logging camp, miles from the nearest village. A century of intensive logging has deforested the Changbai mountain range, leaving its inhabitants destitute. When the government begins clearing away houses to build a reservoir that will supply drinking water to Harbin, the hunter and his household are asked to move. By winter, the house has been half-demolished but the family remains to face even more bitter challenges.

Yu Guangyi

Yu Guangyi

was born in 1961 in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province. After graduating from the Chinese Academy of Art in Hangzhou, he worked for many years as a woodblock print artist. He began making independent documentary films in 2004. His first film (2006) won Director’s Award and Critic’s Award at CinDi 2007. «Survival Song» is his second film.

FILMOGRAPHY

«Timber Gang» (2006); «Survival Song» (2008).
For the best film of the festival Grand Prix “Big Golden Nanook”; FIPRESCI Jury prize “Silver Nanook”
China , 2008, colour, 94 min.
Director: Yu Guangyi
In the snowbound wilderness of the Changbai mountain range, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, we find an unusual family: a hunter, his wife, a vagrant named Xiao Li, two dogs and a cat. They live together in a decrepit house in an abandoned logging camp, miles from the nearest village. A century of intensive logging has deforested the Changbai mountain range, leaving its inhabitants destitute. When the government begins clearing away houses to build a reservoir that will supply drinking water to Harbin, the hunter and his household are asked to move. By winter, the house has been half-demolished but the family remains to face even more bitter challenges.