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Remote Mountain C009

Director:Hu Jie
Subject:Labour / Industry
Price: HKD750.00
China / 1995 / 40 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

In the mountains of China's Qinghai province, there are countless small coal mines. The miners are all rural people from nearby and their bodies are covered in coal dust from the thirty dan of coal they must dig out each day to earn five hundred dollars a month. The film records how they labor and the sounds of their heavy breathing and what they see working far underground, while cherishing the dreams of a better life we all have.

We are the … of Communism C021

Director:Cui Zien
Subject:Education in China / Labour
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 94 min
In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

The Yuanhai school for migrant's children was suddenly closed for no reason. Students were forced to leave the school. Those who continued to study had classes in old factory buildings. When winter came, students in their first and second years went to study in a small van. The older ones went to the teacher's small flat to have lessons. In the cold weather, the children still gathered happily together and school was like heaven to them.

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