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The Swingmaker

(Da qiu qian de ren) 

by Da Xiong

China

 

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Director: Da Xiong

Script: Da Xiong, He Junxiao

Cinematographer: Da Xiong

Editing: Da Xiong

Setting: Shi Zhuoli

Music: Yang Chengxuan

Sound: Dai Hailong

Cast: Jiang Shouzhi, Song Yili, Song Xichen

Production:
Da Xiaong
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Year: 2017

Screening: 2019

DCP, Colour, 88 min, 
OV Mandarin with English and French Electronic Subtitles

World Premiere

Liu Huanrong works in Changqing oil fields, China's second-largest onshore oil and gas field located in Inner Mongolia. A devoted employee for over thirty years, he spends his free time building a swing and running after his young female coworker, who recently arrived and has only one thing in mind: fleeing the isolated place to return working in the big city. An unexpected mishap brings Liu back to his family in Xi’An, the 8 million inhabitants capital of Shaanxi Province. He will have a tough time reconnecting with his estranged spouse and adult daughter, but also with a very different capitalist society compared to thirty years earlier.

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