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Release Year: 2011

Story:

Tang Caifeng (also known as Tang Xiaoyan) has been away from home for many years and involved in prostitution and illegal mining but nothing has gone well with her. This winter she returns to her hometown in Northeastern China to celebrate Spring Festival with her 80-year-old father, Old Tang. All Old Tang’s children comes home happily, but the good times do not last long and one family quarrel leads to another. Old Tang becomes left behind by his children. Old Tang then tells the story of his life to the camera intermittently. This winter is filled with snow, laughters and gloomy old memories. In the end, Tang Caifeng leaves home again with an uncertain future.

Casts & Crews:

Xu Tong
Directors

Runtime: 85 minutes

iMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124832

Douban: https://movie.douban.com/subject/4824969/

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2013 The 4th Tokyo Chinese Independent Film Festival
2012 The 4th China Independent Film Festival-Paris, France
2012 The 35th Gothenburg (Sweden) International Film Festival
2012 The 41st Rotterdam (Netherlands) International Film Festival
2011 China Radio and Television Association "International Documentary Conference"-Best Camera Award
2011 The 8th China Independent Video Annual Exhibition-CIFF Real People Award and Top Ten Documentary Films of the Year
2011 The 30th Vancouver (Canada) International Film Festival-Dragon and Tiger Section
2011 The 12th Rome Asian Film Festival-Competition Unit
2011 The 3rd Hangzhou Asian Youth Film Festival-Closing Film
2011 Li Xianting Film Fund Collection
2011 The 6th Beijing Independent Film Festival
2011 The 5th Seoul Digital Film Festival-Special Award
2011 The 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival-Humanitarian Award Documentary Competition Unit
2010 Won the 16th Shanghai TV Festival-MIDA Director’s Program "Winning Proposal"
2010 Won the 15th Busan International Film Festival-Asia Fund

Tags: Director Xu Tong, Documentary, Family Ethics

Director‘s Statement:
Lao Tang Tou was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1930. His father Tang Shirong had saved the life of Zhao Shangzhi from the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces during the period of Manchukuo, so he was very prestigious in the village. There are five brothers in the Old Tang family, and they are named in the order of “benevolence (“ren”), righteousness(“yi”), courtesy(“li”), wisdom(“zhi”), faith(“xin”)” stated in the family tree. Lao Tang Tou is the youngest so he got the given name of “xin” - Tang Xixin.

He has an amazing memory of his past experience in eighty years. The director spent the whole winter filming Lao Tang Tou walking us through his legendary life. The film shows the legendary yet humble life of individuals in the unrelenting vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese history.