Grain in Ear
Mang zhong
South Korea, China
2005
109 Min
Color
Mandarin, Korean
Synopsis
The title is a synonym for the Chinese harvest season. The harvest is very poor for Cui, a Korean single mother in a hostile Chinese environment. In order to make ends meet she sells self-made snacks along dusty industrial roads. To factory workers, to a policeman who provides her with a license, and to a married man with Korean roots. Her affair with this man leads to heaps of trouble for Cui and her son, who does not understand their clandestine existence. The immobile camera, the strictly observing style and the apparently unruffled characters offer this portrait of a mother on the fringes of an industrial no-man’s-land a venomous documentary edge. –IMDb
Director
Zhang Lu
ZHANG Lu was born in 1962 in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China. In 2001, he directed his first short film ‘Eleven’(2001), which was selected for many international film festivals including the Venice International Film Festival; Short Film Competition, the Busan Asian Short Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. His first feature film ‘Tang Poetry’(2004) was selected for the Locarno International Film Festival in 2004, and his next film ‘Grain in Ear’(2005) won the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival in 2005. After that, he directed ‘Hyazgar’(2007). Filmed in the Mongolian desert, it tells the story of a mother and son who have escaped from North Korea. Also completed in 2007 was the short film ‘Fact’.
His recent films ‘Chongqing’(2008) and ‘Iri’(2008) are currently planned to be released, and he is now preparing for his new film ‘Dooman River’ about a boy who escaped from North Korea and a Korean-Chinese girl. ZHANG Lu… read more
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