难 / Nan

2019 / 79:31/ HD video

Hunan Dialect / China / Color

A portrait that follows Nan, my uncle who lives with his elderly parents, during the last two years that the three share the same house together. In long, tightly framed shots, a picture of daily life unfolds...

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Zuqiang's film is neither long nor slow. It simply unfolds at the pace with which Nan and his parents move through the world—the rhythms to which anyone who is invited into their world can attune...

'Special Mention' from Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, 2020.