Shanghai Dreams (2005)

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China
Feature Film
Original Title: 青红
Writer/Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Cinematographer: Wu Di
Cast: Gao Yuanyuan, Yao Anlian, Tang Yang, Li Bin, Wang Xueyang, Dai Wenyan, Lin Yuan, Qin Hao, Wang Xiaofen, You Fangming

Qinghong, the teenaged daughter of a Guizhou factory worker, who dreams of one day returning to his native Shanghai, struggles to find her own identity under the watch of her domineering father, in Wang’s heartfelt, understated, and painfully, beautifully human tribute to his parents’ “Third Front” generation of Chinese migrants. Iain.Stott