Trailer of A Long Way Home (EN)
A Long Way Home (2018)
by Luc Schaedler | go between films
Genre – Documentary
Duration – 1 h 13 min
Language – Chinese 中文 | Subtitles EN, DE, FR
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Synopsis
«A Long Way Home» takes us on a fascinating journey into both the grim days of recent Chinese history and the dazzling cultural scene in present-day China.
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The film centers around five of the most significant representatives of contemporary Chinese counterculture: the visual artists the Gao Brothers, the choreographer and dancer Wen Hui, the animation artist Pi San and the poet Ye Fu.
With bravery and subversive wit, they each shed light on the social problems in their country. In doing so, the film poses universal questions that ultimately concern us all: which values determine our cultural identity and in what kind of world do we want to live.
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Bonus Material
- → Additional statements by the protagonists (EN)
- → «Blowing up the school» by Pi San (EN)
- → Conversation with Luc Schaedler (EN)
WEN HUI – choreographer
Are you a proletarian?
PI SAN – animation artist
Staying in the country or leaving…
GAO ZHEN – visual artist
His long way…
YE FU – writer & poet
How he wrote his first poem…
«Blowing up the school» by Pi San (EN)
With «Kuang Kuang», animation artist Pi San created a character that went viral on the Chinese internet. Little «Kuang Kuang» — always with a bleeding nose, endlessly curious — faces the challenges of everyday life, even in a world marked by injustice and violence. Pi San’s «Kuang Kuang» clips are sharp, biting commentaries on daily life in China. They were clicked hundreds of thousands of times — before disappearing into the swamp of censorship.
Conversation with Luc Schaedler (EN)
The conversation with filmmaker Luc Schaedler took place on the occasion of the international premiere of A Long Way Home at the Dharamshala International Film Festival in India.
Trailer (DE)
Trailer (EN)
Trailer (FR)
