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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.

Table of Contents:

• Dooman River (0:00)

Contributors:

Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Infobase

Fisher Klingenstein Ventures

Languages:

Chinese

Language Notes:

With English subtitles.

Subjects:

Families — Korea (North) — Drama

Political refugees — Korea (North) — Drama

Korea (North) — Boundaries — China — Drama

Families

Political refugees

Boundaries

Foreign films

China

Korea (North)

Genres:

Educational films

Foreign films

Internet videos

Videorecording

Online media

Drama

Production Credits:

Directed by Zhang Lu.

General Notes:

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 12, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Title from distributor's description.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (89 min.) : sound, color

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Infobase: 56783

OCLC Numbers:

1287597686

Other Control Numbers:

100056783 (source: FOD)
[Unknown Type]: wcc100056783