Genres: Drama / Short

Country/Region: Malaysia / Mainland China

Language: Cantonese / Mandarin / Hokkien

Runtime: 30 min

Presented by: GEOHAN SDN BHD

Co-Presented & Produced by: NEO Film Studio

World Premiere: 2007.07.24

IMDb: tt6885222

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Presented by: Lee Kim Seng

Producers: Oh CW / Shear Zhang / RAYIST

Written & Directed by : RAYIST
Starring: Ching Jun Hong / Chong Wan Ching / Mah Mee Tho / Tan Hun Kian / Toh Peng Kien / Chin Chey Hong / Patrick Lim / Chee Mun Hou / Ho Kai Hui

 

【 Awards 】

11th FIRST International Film Festival (China) BEST SHORT FILM Nomination;

4th Chong Qing Youth Film Festival (China) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY;

4th Chong Qing Youth Film Festival (China) GRAND JURY PRIZE Nomination;

1st Hua International Short Film Festival (HISFF) (China) BEST NARRATIVE FILM Nomination, OPENING FILM;

2017 Asia South East-Short Film Festival (Viet Nam) Honourable Mention Award;

5th Golden Lotus Awards (China) Official Selection;

2018 Macao Films Panorama (Macao China) OPENING FILM, SPECIAL SCREENING;

2nd 86358 Short Film Festival (by Jia Zhangke) (China) SPECIAL SCREENING;

13th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum (China) SPECIAL SCREENING;

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【 FULL MOVIE 】

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【 Trailer Ver1 】
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【 Trailer Ver2 】

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【 Behind Scenes 】

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「 Synopsis 」

 

        Paigu lived his teenage life in a small town in Malaysia in the 1990's. The beach here is not that beautiful, however, the verdant rice fields are that attractive.

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        Drinking, smoking, gambling, and street fighting were becoming the way of Paigu and his friends' life. Wan Ching came into Paigu's life. They hang out and talked about everything on their date.

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        Soon after, Wan Ching’s parents arranged her life. However, Paigu takes the counsel of the time and surrenders the things of the youth. Rice fields are ripened again, they are just the nobodies.

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「 Director Statement 」

 

        Libai wrote a poem titled “Bringing in the Wine” more than a thousand years before, which content was “See how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven. Entering the ocean, never to return.” Coincidentally, Luo Tayo also had written a song which is the same title in 1982. 

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        All rivers will meet when they run into the sea. Looking at the foreign country’s estuaries and inlets, maybe the water from the estuaries and inlets will run into the Yellow River because all rivers meet the ocean. 

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        The ancestors of the Malaysian Chinese migrated to this land. From that moment on, their descendants were born and raised in here. For the younger generation, they learn the same language, watch the same movies, and listen to the same songs with us Chinese. And for the children, they go to international schools, some of them even can not know not Chinese.

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        Our team shoots the film in a town where is a one-hour drive from Kuala Lumpur. We have devoted all kinds of our feelings into this film, such as passion of life and homesickness. And maybe, the Yellow river is just a river with a name to the younger generation.

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