Jaime Rosales - Wang Bing: Carta 2. Xi Jang Tang

Children climbing in the mountains slowly reach a valley and the small poor community that they are part of. Everyone here survives thanks only to cultivating potatoes and raising animals. Without any kind of commentary or additional dialogue, we observe everyday normal life and through it we sense personal tragedy. Even here the poetic realism of objects or banal tasks is used. The directors do not engage in a dialogue – they support it with fragments, and although there are epistolary tendencies, they are paradoxically voiceless. They don't want to talk about themselves, but rather about the fact that they are here. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)