''Railroad of Hope'' is a 2002 Chinese

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Ning Ying Ning Ying (born 1959 in Beijing) is a female Chinese film director often considered a member of China's " Sixth Generation" filmmaker coterie, a group that also includes Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai. However, this is more a result ...

. The film was produced by Eurasia Communications and Beijing Happy Village.

Background

''Railroad of Hope'' consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migrant agricultural workers traveling from

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

in China's interior, to the

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

Autonomous Region, China's northwest frontier. Through informal interviews aboard the cramped rail cars, Ning Ying explores the hopes and dreams of the workers, many of whom have never left their homes before.

Reception

The film won the Grand Prix du Cinemá du Réel in 2002 in Paris.

References

External links

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at the Chinese Movie Database 2002 films Chinese documentary films 2000s Mandarin-language films 2002 documentary films Documentary films about rail transport Films directed by Ning Ying 2000s Chinese films {{2000s-documentary-film-stub