Mingong

Davide Crudetti
Italy / 2016 / 52 min

Mingong has been a journey aimed to find the millions of Chinese that move from the countries to the seaside megalopolis. We started from the Guangzhou peripheries whose are the end of their journey and we went back to their starting point, Dimen village, looking for those who left their parents and sons while they moved to the cities. We focused on some faces, on some words and we decided to go deeper into this world which seems to be so far away from our reality and maybe it is not. We tried to see what the economic boom created in a small part of a such a huge country. Minong tells a journey in time into the old China which is disappearing nowadays. A faces’ mosaic which reveals a common story: the village, the departure, money, sons, work, the efforts and the absence. Mingong shows the smile and the awareness that there could be one end only; that is because, nevertheless, the old men of Dimen still believe that: “It does not matter wherever you go, you will always come back to your native village, you will always come back to Dimen.”

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