ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP
Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica - Biennale Venezia - Italie
Toronto International Film Festival - Canada
Pusan - Corée du Sud
Abu Dhabi - Emirats Arabes Unis
Festival du nouveau cinéma - Canada
Mostra de Sao Paulo - Brésil
Stockholm International Film Festival - Suède
Festival des trois continents à Nantes - France
Talinn black nights film fest - Estonie Tokyo Clockworx - Japon
2011:
Festival des droits humains à Genève - Suisse
Hong Kong Film Festival - Chine
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Espagne
Era new horizons IFF - Pologne
Munich Film Festival - Allemagne
Sydney Film Festival - Australie
Cinema South Festival - Israël
Mirror International Film Festival - Russie
Febiofest - République tchèque
San Sebastian - Espagne
The Ditch
| Tittle | The Ditch |
| Director | Wang Bing |
| Type | Full-length film |
| Year | 2010 |
| Key cast | Ye Lu |
| Renjun Lian | |
| Cenzi Xu | |
| Haoyu Yang | |
| Zhengwu Cheng | |
| Niansong Jing | |
| Xianghnian Li | |
| Coproducteurs | Entre Chien et Loup |
| Wil Productions | |
| Les Films de l'Etranger | |
| Distributor | Capricci Films |
| International Sales | Wild Bunch |
| Script | Wang Bing |
| Director of photography | Sheng Lu |
| Sound | Liang Ren |
| Artistic director | Lige Bao |
| Honghui Xiang | |
| Costume designer | Fuzheng Wang |
| Editor | Marie-Hélène Dozo |
| Sound editor | Gilles Laurent |
| Valérie Ledocte | |
| Kang Fu | |
| Sound mixer | Michel Schillings |
At the end of the 1950s, the Chinese government condemned thousands of citizens - considered ‘right wing dissidents’ due their past activities, criticisms of the Communist Party or simply their middle-class backgrounds and families - to forced labour camps.
Deported for re-education to the north-west of the country, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, thousands of miles from their families, they encountered conditions of absolute destitution. As a result of backbreaking physical labour, an unrelentingly extreme climate and the most meager of provisions, many of them perished.
The Ditch recounts their fate - an unflinching account of the very extremes of the human condition.
Based on “Goodbye, Jiabiangou”, a novel by YANG Xianhui, and on testimony by TI Zhongzheng and the other survivors.
