Huang Ji : 2012
Jidan he shitou
Fourteen-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. The girl is not wanted. Nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. In the meantime, seven years have passed. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call. As the tragedy of Honggui's personal story gradually unfolds, we see how other Chinese women are also often afflicted, not only by the widespread poverty, but also by the policy to restrict births which ensures that parents primarily want boys. Slow-paced and meticulously filmed in the village in Hunan Province where Huang Ji was born, her quietly disturbing debut feature was the winner of the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012.
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