The Road
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Country/Region:
China Mainland
Release Year: 2010
Release Year: 2010
Publish Date: 28 April 2022 16:00:00 UTC
Story:
The documentary film, The Road, reveals the status of 22 students who study in a private village school in Hunan Province. Through in-depth interviews, the inner world of these “left-behind children” who are lack of parental love has been explored. We hope that through this film, we could hear the responses and actions from our society. And also this documentary film reveals the lag-behind rural education problems. Due to the problem of dilapidated teaching buildings, the only primary school in Guang’an Village, has to move to the town and been merged with an center-town primary school in 2002 as the response to the government policy, which is, to merge more students and schools together. But this has caused a series of problems for Guang’an Village. Taking the inconvenient traffic as an example, some kids are too young to walk the long distance to school with parents, meanwhile, a vast majority of these pupils ’parents works outside the village, leaving their grandparents farming the land at home. But for their children’s future, at least one grandparent from the family has to rent an apartment in the town to accompany these kids studying. This causes additional expenses, thus it becomes a heavy burden for the family. Under this circumstance, the village decided to rebuild a private school, which has totally enrolled 22 students in Grade One…….
The documentary film, The Road, reveals the status of 22 students who study in a private village school in Hunan Province. Through in-depth interviews, the inner world of these “left-behind children” who are lack of parental love has been explored. We hope that through this film, we could hear the responses and actions from our society. And also this documentary film reveals the lag-behind rural education problems. Due to the problem of dilapidated teaching buildings, the only primary school in Guang’an Village, has to move to the town and been merged with an center-town primary school in 2002 as the response to the government policy, which is, to merge more students and schools together. But this has caused a series of problems for Guang’an Village. Taking the inconvenient traffic as an example, some kids are too young to walk the long distance to school with parents, meanwhile, a vast majority of these pupils ’parents works outside the village, leaving their grandparents farming the land at home. But for their children’s future, at least one grandparent from the family has to rent an apartment in the town to accompany these kids studying. This causes additional expenses, thus it becomes a heavy burden for the family. Under this circumstance, the village decided to rebuild a private school, which has totally enrolled 22 students in Grade One…….
Casts & Crews:
Jiang Nengjie
Directors
Runtime:
86
minutes
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2010 Chinese Documentary Film Exchange Week, China
2010 Chinese Documentary Film Exchange Week, China
Director‘s Statement:
This documentary film, The Road, attempts to explore the current situation of children, household, society and other existing problems in rural areas from the perspective of children. The purpose of this documentary is to concentrate people’s attention on the education problem of “left-behind children”, and to reveal the educational-marginality, cultural-lost, cultural-disintegration and spiritual-desertification of rural areas.
Through stories of different families, worries about the “left-behind children” who stay in particular family environment have been expressed. How could they find a way to cope with all the reality? Who can help them with their growth? And how could they grow up healthily? The above problems are critical for these rural children. However, as the material world growing rapidly today, rural education, which is the most important part of fostering rural culture, hasn’t gained enough emphasis from the government and the society.
Nowadays, rural areas are in disadvantage both economically and socially. So the ultimate purpose of this film is to discuss how to solve the series of problems in rural areas caused by the Chinese social development, such as, how they could survive in this society full of fierce competition and what does the government need to do to cope with the education of “left-behind children”.
Through stories of different families, worries about the “left-behind children” who stay in particular family environment have been expressed. How could they find a way to cope with all the reality? Who can help them with their growth? And how could they grow up healthily? The above problems are critical for these rural children. However, as the material world growing rapidly today, rural education, which is the most important part of fostering rural culture, hasn’t gained enough emphasis from the government and the society.
Nowadays, rural areas are in disadvantage both economically and socially. So the ultimate purpose of this film is to discuss how to solve the series of problems in rural areas caused by the Chinese social development, such as, how they could survive in this society full of fierce competition and what does the government need to do to cope with the education of “left-behind children”.
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Jiang Nengjie
Director
