The Summer is Gone(bc sunday)

Strongly influenced by The 400 Blows, first-time director Zhang Dalei offers a beautifully-shot, B&W drama, unfolding his semi-autobiographical reminiscence of childhood and his melancholic ode about the end of an era. Set in early 1990s, a 12-year old boy spends his summer vacation in an Inner Mongolia town, where his father, a worker in a state-owned film studio, is about to be laid off thanks to privatization. Nostalgic and delicate emotions elegantly infuse careful compositions with naturalism. Golden Horse Awards Best Feature Film.