''Pretty Big Feet'', released in the United States as ''For the Children'', is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Yang Yazhou. It stars

Ni Ping Ni Ping (born 15 February 1959) is a mainland Chinese film actress and TV host. Since the early 1990s, Ni shot fame for hosting CCTV New Year's Gala The ''CCTV New Year's Gala'', also known as the ''Spring Festival Gala'', and commonly abb ...

as a teacher in an extremely impoverished and barren town in

Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in ...

, and

Yuan Quan Yuan Quan (, born 16 October 1977), also known as Yolanda Yuan, is a Chinese actress and singer. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama where she majored in drama. Career Yuan starred in her first film ''Rhapsody of Spring'' (1998), w ...

as a volunteer teacher coming from Beijing to help the local education. The film won 4 awards at the

Golden Rooster Awards The Golden Rooster Awards () are film awards given in mainland China. The awards were originally given annually, beginning in 1981. The name of the award came from the year of the Rooster in 1981. Award recipients receive a statuette in the shap ...

Awards

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