Les Herbes sauvages

Wild Grass

Since the start of the 1990s, a period during which the Chinese government criticised the Western media for biased reporting, Chinese orphanages have strictly controlled access by the media. Because of the difficulty of gaining entrance, it is extremely difficult to know what the situation has been like there for many years. Accompanied by a mother living close to the Qingdao centre, it was thus nevertheless possible for me to film this delicate subject in privileged conditions. It was there that, in 1995, I discovered for the first time dozens of children abandoned by their parents. Over the following 10 years, I came back to visit them every year, and I became their friend. As I listened to them relating their dreams of glory, I filmed their evolution over a decade...
Lina Yang

France - 2009 - 1 h 16 mn - DV Cam • 16/9 - Colour

Director
Lina Yang
Writer
Lina Yang
Camera
Lina Yang
Sound
Lina Yang
Editing
Mary Stephen

Production
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel,
4 avenue de l'Europe,
94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4983 2952
Fax : +33 1 4983 3182
E-mail : sblum@ina.fr

Co-Production
Chinese Shadows, ARTE France, TV3 Televisió de Catalunya, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, UR - Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

Sales
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel,
Michèle Gautard,
4 avenue de l'Europe,
94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4983 2992
Fax : +33 1 4983 3182
E-mail : mgautard@ina.fr