Survival Song
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Country/Region:
China
Release Year: 2018
Release Year: 2018
Story:
Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of Chinese society. Han, a college graduate who used to be a forestry worker, struggles to support his wife and children by illegally hunting and trapping wild boar. They live in an abandoned logging camp with no electricity or running water. The government is clearing the area to build a reservoir and corrupt local officials decide to demolish Han's home in the middle of the winter. At the same time, Han's goatherder Xiao Li has returned after running off to the hills with a "crazy woman." Although Xiao Li is a uniquely strange character, he finds a home with this ragtag family of survivors.
Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of Chinese society. Han, a college graduate who used to be a forestry worker, struggles to support his wife and children by illegally hunting and trapping wild boar. They live in an abandoned logging camp with no electricity or running water. The government is clearing the area to build a reservoir and corrupt local officials decide to demolish Han's home in the middle of the winter. At the same time, Han's goatherder Xiao Li has returned after running off to the hills with a "crazy woman." Although Xiao Li is a uniquely strange character, he finds a home with this ragtag family of survivors.
Casts & Crews:
Yu Guangyi
Directors
Runtime:
94
minutes
Language:
Subtitles:
English
Festivals & Awards:
2008 Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2008 Dubai International Film Festival - Grand Prize, United Arab Emirates 2009 Vienna International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award, Austria 2008 DOCCHINA - Independent Spirit Award, China 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival , Canada 2008 Rotterdam International Film Festival , Netherlands
2008 Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2008 Dubai International Film Festival - Grand Prize, United Arab Emirates 2009 Vienna International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award, Austria 2008 DOCCHINA - Independent Spirit Award, China 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival , Canada 2008 Rotterdam International Film Festival , Netherlands
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character
Director‘s Statement:
A century of felling trees has deforested the Changbai national forest and left many local residents unemployed and destitute.
In certain areas, environmental degradation and resource competition have reduced human society to a pecking order in which each person must struggle to maintain his or her place in the food chain. No longer is there any respect for the age-old "code of the mountains" in which hunters and trappers steered clear of traps set by others. These days, the poachers poach from one another, and anyone who comes across trapped prey is likely to steal it for themselves. After a long winter spent setting and checking his traps, the hunter has very little to show for his efforts. Meanwhile, the hunter has become the hunted: even more powerful human predators have set in motion a plan that will deprive him of his land, his home and his livelihood.
In certain areas, environmental degradation and resource competition have reduced human society to a pecking order in which each person must struggle to maintain his or her place in the food chain. No longer is there any respect for the age-old "code of the mountains" in which hunters and trappers steered clear of traps set by others. These days, the poachers poach from one another, and anyone who comes across trapped prey is likely to steal it for themselves. After a long winter spent setting and checking his traps, the hunter has very little to show for his efforts. Meanwhile, the hunter has become the hunted: even more powerful human predators have set in motion a plan that will deprive him of his land, his home and his livelihood.
Casts & Crews
Yu Guangyi
Director
