Crow in Winter

2004/Color/ DV/71min
Location:Jiangxi
By:Zhang Dali
E-mail:zdl1698@163.com

Screen
03/24 16 :00 1 hall
03/25 21 :00 2 hall

A train zips by on the Beijing-Kowloon line while women, children, and the elderly toil on in an old village. As Spring Festival comes and goes, so do the men who have gone to the city looking for work, and after a brief burst of excitement, cold desolation descends once again upon the village.
This is life far away from the city, where one cannot escape the firm grip of time. As the years pass, things naturally change, yet sometimes the village is jolted from its sleep and forced to keep up with the times, producing some unexpected consequences. This film soulfully examines the countenance the village strives to maintain and expresses the filmmaker’s nostalgia and melancholy towards its current plight.

Zhang Dali
After leaving film and art school, Zhang Dali (b.1975) became an ‘angered youth’, but finally received a B.A. in Journalism from Nanchang University. When not doing independent work, he directs TV programs at Guangzhou TV. He has written several screenplays that have yet to be produced. Crow in Winter is his first film.