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

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