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Dooman River2009
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 for 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.
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- Cui Jian - Chang-Ho
- Jin Linl Li - Jeong-jin
- Jin-Long Lin - Grandfather
- Jin Xuansheng - Chul-bu
- Lan Yin - Soon-Hee
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beautiful film_everything