The Fading Village | Chun qu dong lai

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.

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