A CORNER OF HEAVEN
Miaoyan Zhang

O.V. Mandarin

Children share a world of dirt paths, quarries, factories, waste heaps and ruins. Beyond the eyesores, enduring insults and blows, theirs is a meagre, violent wayward existence of petty larceny and forced labour. And on all-too-rare occasions, a helping hand... This Franco-Chinese co-production lifts the veil on a rural, industrialized China unknown to Western eyes and unsanctioned by bureaucracy. Alone in the world, a 13-year-old boy searches for his mother, hoping she will be his little...