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In search of a missing student
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Konangal screens Chinese film ‘Not one less’ as part of its outreach programme
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Konangal Film Society will screen the Chinese film ‘Not one less’ on October 28 (Sunday) as part of its outreach programme.
The film directed by Yimou Zhang, is about Wei (Wei Minzhi, a primary school graduate who has been pressed into service as a substitute teacher in the Shuiquan Primary School.
The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there’s not one less student when he returns.
Hard task
Wei stands a few inches taller than her charges, and it is hard not to hear more than a trace of irony in their voices when they address her, according to the dictates of courtesy and custom, as “Teacher Wei.”
When troublemaker Zhang Huike manages to runs away from school, forced to try to find work in the nearby city of Zhangjiakou to support his ailing, debt-ridden mother, Wei has a mission: to get to the city, and recover Zhang.
Amateur actors
All of the actors in the film are amateurs.
Moreover, most play a version of who they are in real life.
The film director does not claim that his films document China or its people. He documents desire instead, circulating themes that have long haunted the national psyche and using seductive image-ideas that marry reality, dream and nightmare.
The screening at Aruna Thirumana Mandapam, Opp Spencer’s Daily Super Market, NSR Road, Saibaba Colony, is supported by Hollywood DVD Shoppe.
For details, call: 4376226/94430-39630. The screening will be at 6 p.m.
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