A Way Out 出路

The documentary film tracks three Chinese adolescents of different ages, social backgrounds, and from different regions in China: a 12-year old primary school student from a remote mountainous region who drops out at 15 to find employment; a 19-year-old high school student retaking his National Exam for the second time; and a restless 17-year-old high school dropout who moves to Germany to pursue art school. Over the period of 2009 to 2015, the film follows the lives, worries, and ambitions of the three Chinese youths as they search for a way out towards an uncertain future.

Director: Qiong Zheng
Runtime: 60m35s
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG
Availability: library@esplanade, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
Accession No: 2018-D-1002415
Subtitles: English
Release Year: 2016
Producer: Qiong Zheng, Wolfgang Bergmann, Nianwen Dai, Ming Hou
Language: Gansu, Mandarin
Production Country: China

Crew:

Writer/Director - Qiong Zheng
Director of Photography - Xing Wei
Cameraman - Ting Rao
Cameraman - Weilin Huang
Cameraman - Gang Zhao
Cameraman - Dedong Liu
Cameraman - Run Wang
Production Assistant - Ronghe Zheng
Production Assistant - Wenying Qian
Editor - Dirk Oetelshoven
Sound - Qiong Zheng
Sound - Weilin Huang
Sound Mix - Detlef Schmitz
Color Grading - Holger Hessinger
Music - Andreas Skandy
Music - Felix Langemann
Music - Daniel Langemann
Music - Detlef Schmitz
Title Design - Konstantin Koewius
Title Design - Xinmin Cheng
Poster Design - Li Liu
Gansu Dialect Translation - Zhihong Yang
Gansu Dialect Translation - Aimin Zhou
Gansu Dialect Translation - Yannan Lian
Gansu Dialect Translation - Yongjin Li
Gansu Dialect Translation - Bo Lv
Gansu Dialect Translation - Lei Meng
Gansu Dialect Translation - Ke Zhang
English Subtitle - Anqi Wang
English Subtitle - Brian Abraham
Film Footage Translation (English) - Xin Liu
Film Footage Translation (English) - Ya Jiang
Film Footage Translation (English) - Lu Chen
Film Footage Translation (English) - Zhuang Zhao
Film Footage Translation (German) - Ruiqi Ma
Film Footage Translation (German) - Jizhong Tian

Keywords:

Places - Mountains, City, Coffee Shop, University, Art School Classroom, Office, Outdoors
Animals - Ox, Cow
Activities - Studying, Teaching, Calling, Finding Jobs, Playing Basketball, Doing Chores, Eating, Sleeping, Painting, Watercolour Painting, Typing, Drawing Water
Subject Matter - Unemployment, Social Mobility, Education, Funeral Rites, Idleness
Themes - Social Mobility, Privilege, Education