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Dooman river
Title
Dooman river / by Lu Zhang.
Published
San Francisco : Global Lens, 2009.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (88 min.).
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 9, 2014).
This edition in Mandarin and Korean with English subtitles.
Won 2010 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Golden Orange Award, Best Foreign Language Film; Won 2010 Berlin International Film Festival Crystal Bear Special Mention Award, Generation 14plus, Best Film; Won 2010 Pusan International Film Festival Netpac Award
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Summary
Writer-director Zhang Lu's fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea. Although fraught with unemployment and other tensions, his community seems sympathetic toward the Korean refugees fleeing famine and misery; Chang-ho even bonds over soccer with one young border-crosser who comes scavenging food for a sibling. But he soon turns on his new friend as suspicions mount against the illegal immigrants and his sister reels from unexpected aggression, provoking a quandary over his loyalties in an exquisitely detailed story of compassion and strife across an uneasy geopolitical border.
Variant and related titles
La rivière Tumen
Tuman'gang
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Dooman river. San Francisco : Global Lens, 2009
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Korean
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction films.
Drama.
Fiction films.
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