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Guangming Primary School is a remote mountain village school in Hunan. In 2009, the school had 22 students, 17 of whom with parents of migrant workers. This documentary follows three of the families of left-behind children for six years. It shows these children's difficulties such as lack of pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jiang, Nengjie, 1985- (Director), Xiaosu, Wu (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:Chinese
Language Notes:In Chinese, with simplified Chinese and English subtitles.
Published: [China] : Orient Indie Films, 2014.
Series:Left-Behind Children Trilogy
Subjects:
Children of migrant laborers > China > Hunan Sheng.
Rural children > China > Hunan Sheng.
Poor children > China > Hunan Sheng.
Education, Rural > China > Hunan Sheng.
Enfants de travailleurs migrants > Chine > Hunan.
Enfants en milieu rural > Chine > Hunan.
Enfants pauvres > Chine > Hunan.
Enseignement en milieu rural > Chine > Hunan.
Children of migrant laborers.
Education, Rural.
Poor children.
Rural children.
China > Hunan Sheng.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Guangming Primary School is a remote mountain village school in Hunan. In 2009, the school had 22 students, 17 of whom with parents of migrant workers. This documentary follows three of the families of left-behind children for six years. It shows these children's difficulties such as lack of parental care, poor material life, and limited educational resources have never changed.The faculty of the school is weak, and teachers are poorly paid. Old grandparents or elder brothers and sisters, who have no time to spare, can be these children's daily guardians. The students are not carefully taught, and their grades and mentality are worrying.Year after year, will their parents come back to reunite with them? At the end of the film, the education of left-behind children, the salary and welfare of urban migrant workers and the future development of agriculture constitute complex and urgent problems. Children at a Village School is the first documentary of Jiang Nengjie's left-behind children trilogy.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed September 23, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource (91 minutes)
Playing Time:01:30:05
Awards:Winner of First Prize, Frankfurt Film Festival, China in Motion, 2013
Nomination, China Academy Awards of Documentary Film, 2014
Nomination, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (The Golden Kapok Award), 2014
Production Credits:Cinematographers: Jiang Nengjie, Jiang Ping, Liu Duxing.