Shattered

Shattered

Xu Tong • 2011

Duration: 01:25:13
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Tang Caifeng (also known as Tang Xiaoyan) has been away from home for many years and involved in prostitution and illegal mining but nothing has gone well with her. This winter she returns to her hometown in Northeastern China to celebrate Spring Festival with her 80-year-old father, Old Tang. All Old Tang’s children comes home happily, but the good times do not last long and one family quarrel leads to another. Old Tang becomes left behind by his children. Old Tang then tells the story of his life to the camera intermittently. This winter is filled with snow, laughters and gloomy old memories. In the end, Tang Caifeng leaves home again with an uncertain future.

Non-Fiction
Director Xu Tong Documentary Family Ethics

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

The 4th Tokyo Chinese Independent Film Festival

2013

The 4th China Independent Film Festival-Paris

France

2012

The 35th Gothenburg International Film Festival

2012

The 41st Rotterdam International Film Festival

2012

Best Camera Award

China Radio and Television Association "International Documentary Conference"

2011

CIFF Real People Award and Top Ten Documentary Films of the Year

The 8th China Independent Video Annual Exhibition

2011

Dragon and Tiger Section

The 30th Vancouver International Film Festival

2011

Competition Unit

The 12th Rome Asian Film Festival

2011

Closing Film

The 3rd Hangzhou Asian Youth Film Festival

2011

Li Xianting Film Fund Collection

2011

The 6th Beijing Independent Film Festival

2011

Special Award

The 5th Seoul Digital Film Festival

2011

Humanitarian Award Documentary Competition Unit

The 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival

2011

MIDA Director’s Program "Winning Proposal"

Won the 16th Shanghai TV Festival

2010

Asia Fund

Won the 15th Busan International Film Festival

2010

CAST & CREW

Xu Tong Xu Tong

Director

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Xu Tong

Xu Tong

Director

Lao Tang Tou was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1930. His father Tang Shirong had saved the life of Zhao Shangzhi from the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces during the period of Manchukuo, so he was very prestigious in the village. There are five brothers in the Old Tang family, and they are named in the order of “benevolence (“ren”), righteousness(“yi”), courtesy(“li”), wisdom(“zhi”), faith(“xin”)” stated in the family tree. Lao Tang Tou is the youngest so he got the given name of “xin” - Tang Xixin.He has an amazing memory of his past experience in eighty years. The director spent the whole winter filming Lao Tang Tou walking us through his legendary life. The film shows the legendary yet humble life of individuals in the unrelenting vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese history.