On the Way to the Sea (2010)

Original title

去大海的路上

Directed by

Tao Gu

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

20 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The director travels to his childhood home in China after a devastating earthquake. The film is his personal record of visiting that place and remembering.

contemplativepersonalquietreflectivemelancholicintimateslow-paceddocumentary

What happens

On the Way to the Sea is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Tao Gu and released in 2010. The film centres on the director's trip to his childhood home in Wenchuan County, China, following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The film was made as Gu's thesis project for the film studies program at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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