{"id":25964,"date":"2017-09-13T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2017-children-are-not-afraid-of-death-children-are-afraid-of-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:38:18","slug":"films-2017-children-are-not-afraid-of-death-children-are-afraid-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2017-children-are-not-afraid-of-death-children-are-afraid-of-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Haizi bu jupa siwang, danshi jupa mogui: Haizi bu jupa siwang, danshi haipa mogui<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
DIRECTOR: <\/strong>Rong Guang Rong   COUNTRY: <\/strong>China   YEAR: <\/strong>2017   LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Mandarin Chinese   SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English, German   RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>85 min  <\/div>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Competition 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, 30.09., 8 p.m., kommkino, Q&A with Rong Guang Rong
Monday, 02.10., 10 p.m., kinoeins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal, impressive emotional documentary in which the director investigates a group suicide by children
in a poor village in the mountains of Guizhou. His journey confronts him with his own fears and memories, but also with the surviving children, government officials and organised crime. Four brothers and sisters, aged five to fourteen, collectively commit suicide by drinking pesticide: what could drive children to such an act of desperation? In 2015, shortly after this horrific event, documentary maker and artist Rong Guang Rong travelled to the village where the drama took place in the hope of finding an answer to this question. He was not made to feel welcome, however: he was arrested, intimidated and sent away, and his footage seized.
He was nevertheless able to finish his film, and the result is an experimental, poetic documentary in which the filmmaker reflects, principally on the basis of his own children and his fears and dreams, on the demons in the lives of the four brothers and sisters: hunger, poverty, insecurity, parents who let them down, and the indifference of those around them. (International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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