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Title Left-behind children trilogy. Children at a village school / a film by Jiang Nengjie
Published [China] : Orient Indie Films, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (91 minutes)
Series Left-Behind Children Trilogy
Summary Guangming Primary School is a remote mountain village school in Hunan. In 2009, the school had 22 students, 17 of whom with parents of migrant workers. This documentary follows three of the families of left-behind children for six years. It shows these children's difficulties such as lack of parental care, poor material life, and limited educational resources have never changed.The faculty of the school is weak, and teachers are poorly paid. Old grandparents or elder brothers and sisters, who have no time to spare, can be these children's daily guardians. The students are not carefully taught, and their grades and mentality are worrying.Year after year, will their parents come back to reunite with them? At the end of the film, the education of left-behind children, the salary and welfare of urban migrant workers and the future development of agriculture constitute complex and urgent problems. Children at a Village School is the first documentary of Jiang Nengjie's left-behind children trilogy
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 23, 2020)
Credits Cinematographers: Jiang Nengjie, Jiang Ping, Liu Duxing
Notes In Chinese, with simplified Chinese and English subtitles
Winner of First Prize, Frankfurt Film Festival, China in Motion, 2013
Nomination, China Academy Awards of Documentary Film, 2014
Nomination, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (The Golden Kapok Award), 2014
Subject Children of migrant laborers -- China -- Hunan Sheng
Rural children -- China -- Hunan Sheng
Poor children -- China -- Hunan Sheng
Education, Rural -- China -- Hunan Sheng
Children of migrant laborers.
Education, Rural.
Poor children.
Rural children.
China -- Hunan Sheng.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Form Streaming video
Author Jiang, Nengjie, 1985- director
Xiaosu, Wu, producer
Other Titles Cun xiao de hai zi
Children at a village school