Village Diary
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Release Year:
2013
Story:
Jiaoyu Village is located in the Yimeng Mountain area. It is a small mountain village that is neither too small nor too rich. It not only retains some traditional customs but also has close communication with the outside world. When the 5,000-year-old farming nation faces the trend of reform and opening up, and when the deep and heavy rural culture collides with the bustling urban civilization, the lives of farmers here have undergone earth-shaking changes. Although Du Shenzhong has a poor family background, he has always pursued culture and has not given up for decades. His wife Zhang Zhaozhen is a pragmatic and typical rural woman, arguing with Du Shenzhong all day long. One is the pursuit of the spiritual world, and the other is the yearning for material life. Two people confront each other while relying on each other. Zhang Zien is the secretary and director of the village branch, busy with the affairs of the village. This year, a cadre in the village came to the village and started to implement many projects with constant contradictions. Throughout the year, big things and small affections made this village branch secretary taste the ups and downs, and enjoy the joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Du Bin is a college student. Because his father suffered from mental illness, his parents divorced and lost his mother's love since childhood. Du Bincai has been working hard and won many honors in school, but his relationship with his father has been deteriorating. Towards the end of the year, he went to visit his mother and dedicated a affectionate song to his father at the Spring Festival Gala in the village. No matter how difficult life is, the farmers on this land will respond with great enthusiasm and faith to face life. No matter how the world changes, the farmers on this land will fight for tomorrow day after day. Repeatedly, endlessly.
Jiaoyu Village is located in the Yimeng Mountain area. It is a small mountain village that is neither too small nor too rich. It not only retains some traditional customs but also has close communication with the outside world. When the 5,000-year-old farming nation faces the trend of reform and opening up, and when the deep and heavy rural culture collides with the bustling urban civilization, the lives of farmers here have undergone earth-shaking changes. Although Du Shenzhong has a poor family background, he has always pursued culture and has not given up for decades. His wife Zhang Zhaozhen is a pragmatic and typical rural woman, arguing with Du Shenzhong all day long. One is the pursuit of the spiritual world, and the other is the yearning for material life. Two people confront each other while relying on each other. Zhang Zien is the secretary and director of the village branch, busy with the affairs of the village. This year, a cadre in the village came to the village and started to implement many projects with constant contradictions. Throughout the year, big things and small affections made this village branch secretary taste the ups and downs, and enjoy the joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Du Bin is a college student. Because his father suffered from mental illness, his parents divorced and lost his mother's love since childhood. Du Bincai has been working hard and won many honors in school, but his relationship with his father has been deteriorating. Towards the end of the year, he went to visit his mother and dedicated a affectionate song to his father at the Spring Festival Gala in the village. No matter how difficult life is, the farmers on this land will respond with great enthusiasm and faith to face life. No matter how the world changes, the farmers on this land will fight for tomorrow day after day. Repeatedly, endlessly.
Casts & Crews:
Jiao Bo
Directors
Runtime:
98min
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Reference:
The 30th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards (2015) Best Documentary (Nominated)
The 15th China Film Huabiao Awards (2013) Excellent Documentary Award
The 20th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award (2014) Documentary Best Documentary
The 11th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival (2013) "Golden Red Cotton" International Documentary Film Awards Unit Excellent documentary feature
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The 30th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards (2015) Best Documentary (Nominated)
The 15th China Film Huabiao Awards (2013) Excellent Documentary Award
The 20th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award (2014) Documentary Best Documentary
The 11th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival (2013) "Golden Red Cotton" International Documentary Film Awards Unit Excellent documentary feature
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Tags:
Village Life, Countryside, human-oriented Documentary
Director‘s Statement:
When the 5,000-year-old farming nation faces the trend of reform and opening up, and when the deep and heavy rural culture collides with the noisy and bustling urban civilization, I feel obligated to record this current change. At the beginning of the spring of 2012, I brought five students to Jiaoyu Village in Zhongzhuang Town, Yiyuan County, Zibo City, Shandong Province, and took 373 days of zero-distance photography of local villagers. We used the camera to record the villagers’ parents’ shortcomings, joys, sorrows, and joys, and to depict the toil, ups, and downs, ups and downs of the village officials, showing the subtle or violent changes in the village’s ecology during social changes. Among them are the peasant masses’ persistent pursuit and dream of a happy life, as well as the rural cadres’ persistence and dedication to ordinary work day after day. These all reflect the vivid background of the villagers in the nostalgia picture scroll and engrave the vertical and horizontal terraces. The deep rut of the reform of rural governance. Through this film, we are trying to provide you with a specimen of Chinese rural life in a true, true and sincere manner, observe closely the life of rural cadres and the masses, and deeply consider the growth space of rural grassroots democracy. City life provides real insight. The countryside is the origin of everything and the source of everything. The Chinese dream is very small, as small as living and working in a village. The Chinese dream is so big that the country is strong, the people are rich, Xinjiang is safe, and neighbors are in harmony.
Casts & Crews
Jiao Bo
Director
