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Raised from Dust

A Window on Asian Cinema

Family · Rural · Spirituality

  • CountryChina
  • Production Year2007
  • Running Time102min
  • FormatDV
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and her daughter. The only thing she has to lean on is her religion. However, things turn for the worst. She is forced to pay for her husband’s funeral and her daughter’s school. She discovers hope in the Christian community as it reaches out to her when no one else does. The scene where her husband is carried away in a wagon at the brink of death represents the alienated people from society of the remote farming class. Xiao-Li is able to pay for her daughter’s schooling with the help of neighbors from the funeral. Although it appears to be a quiet flow of change on the outside, on the inside it is a seedling of a growing alternative community. (Kim Ji-suk)
Director
Director
Xiao’er GAN
Born in Xinxiang, Henan, Xiao’er Gan graduated from the Literature Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1998. His first film, The Only Sons (2002) received a Dragon and Tigers Award Jury Special Mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and screened at other film festivals in Pusan, Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Taipei. He directed Not Too Close, Not Too Detached in 2006.
Credit
  • Director
    Xiao’er GAN
  • ProducerXianmin ZHANG
  • CastShuli HU
    Shengyue LU
    Xianmin ZAHNG
  • ScreenplayXiao’er GAN
    Xianmin ZHANG
  • CinematographyGuowei WANG
  • EditorSenax FENG
  • SoundTing CHEN
  • MusicJacky TSAI
  • Production CompanyTHE SEVENTH SEAL FILM WORKSHOP
    gxer@vip.sina.com
  • World SalesInD Blue Limited
    indblue@indblue.com
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