Far and Near
Director: XiaoLu Guo
Running Time: 38 mins
Wales 2003

Post Screening Discussion with Director

Leaving her native country for the first time, a young Chinese writer wanders on a mountain in Wales.

Through the people she meets she enters a dream like world where memories of Beijing and a childhood in a poor fishing village return to her. She contemplates loneliness and is unexpectedly haunted by stories of tragic death.

Xiaolu Guo graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2000 in screen writing and film theory. She has published several novels and many articles, her most recent book "Village Of Stone" will be published in English by Random House and in French by Philippe Picquier in the Winter of 2003.

Xiaolu screenwriting credits include ‘Love in the Internet Age’ (1999) which received the Best Screenwriting Award at the 1999 Chinese National Film Awards; House (1999), which was an independent feature film by Wang Xiaoshuai who directed 'The Days' and 'Beijing Bicycle'; 'Bamboo Blossom' (2002) an independent film by director Wang Guangli who also directed 'Go for Broke'.

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