Grain in Ear

(Mang Zhong)

by Zhang Lu

China, South Korea

Director: Zhang Lu

Script: Zhang Lu

Cinematographer: Yong Hong Liu

Editing: Kim Sun-min

Sound: Ran Wang

Cast: Ji Liu Lian, Bo Jin, Kwang Hyun, Tong Hui Wang

Production:
Doo Entertainment A-102,
Dongyang Villa 872-18 Bangbae 4-dong,
Seocho-gu Seoul,
135-922 - Korea
Tel: 82.2.365.7536
Fax: 82.2.365.7537
Mail: [email protected]

Year: 2005

35 mm, Colour, 109 min
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles

Cannes Film Festival 2005 - ACID Best Award
Pesaro New Cinema 2005
Busan New Currents 2005 Award
Unreleased

Cui Shun-ji is a Chinese young woman from Korea who brings up her young son as a single mother. She lives far away from her birth place and makes a modest living by selling Korean food kimchi on her tricycle. She has no official licence and is always on the alert. Two regular clients become closer and closer: a young policeman, and Kim who is also from Korea. Kim and Cui feel particularly close as both of them miss their country. Yet, their love cannot come to light since Kim is married. With sensitivity, Grain in Ear strongly probes into the painful question of the minorities living in China, and of those beyond in all the countries in the world.