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Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

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Rural · True Story · Children · Women  

  • CountryChina
  • Production Year2021
  • Running Time109min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
In 2019, director Zhang Mengqi spent her ninth winter in the village of "47KM" in Hebei Province. "47KM" is her father′s hometown, and she′s completed a film every time she visited. Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM is the ninth in her "47KM" series. Alongside village children with red cheeks, director Zhang Mengqi runs around the fi elds, draws, dances, sings, and plays all day, but she doesn’t just play. This time, she decides to bring the children′s imaginative fairy tales into reality: when children draw a house on a winter field, a real house is built on the village hill for the director to live in. The children’s daily life, full of all kinds of games, is a fairy tale in itself,and this film is also a fairy tale. The unadorned gaze and innocence that permeates the tone, mood, and rhythm of this lovely film will make you smile from beginning to end. (KANG Sowon)
Director
Director
ZHANG Mengqi
Zhang Mengqi graduated from the Dance Academy of Minzu University of China and has been a resident filmmaker and choreographer at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing since 2009. Mengqi has made nine feature-length documentaries, filmed in her father’s village in Hebei Province, known as her ‘Self-portrait series.’ Her films have been selected by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, True/False Fest, Visions du Réel, RIDM and others. In 2018, her film Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47km (2017) won the White Goose Award at DMZ International Documentary Film Festival.
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  • Director ZHANG Mengqi 장멩치
  • Producer Mengqi ZHANG
  • Cast Hong FANG, Qixuan DING, Jinting LEI, Mengqi ZHANG
  • Cinematography Mengqi ZHANG, Hong FANG, Qixuan DING
  • Editor Mengqi ZHANG
  • Sound Mengqi ZHANG
  • Production Company Caochangdi Workstation
    China
    No. 173, Qingjiatun village, Xingshou town, Changping district, Beijing, 102200, China
    mengqiz@foxmail.com