The Fading Village | Chun qu dong lai

  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Liu Feifang
  • China 2019
  • 172 minutes
  • Chinese, Shanxi
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Hou Junli is the only young man remaining in the village of North Shanxi Province, where all the young people went to the city. Hou makes a living by raising goats. Facing the lonely life in the village and the temptation of outside world, he hesitates whether he should leave or stay.

An epic, magnificently shot chronicle of a tiny Chinese hamlet enduring one of its final yearly cycles of harvest and hardship, Liu Feifang’s delicate but powerful debut documentary follows the death throes of a tiny Chinese goat-herding village and the way of life it represents.

Feature-Length Debut


  • Director Liu Feifang
  • Production Liu Feifang
  • Script Liu Feifang, Miao Ruwen
  • Cinematography Liu Feifang, Cheng Chia-ming
  • Editing Guo Hengqi
  • Music Roc Chen
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary
  • Source Shanghai Haojin Film Center, Shanghai