DocNomads film selected to documentART in Germany
The documentary short Eastward Go directed by Yimeng Zhang, a DocNomads student from China, was selected to the Official Competition of the 27th documentART European Film Festival which takes place in Neubrandenburg, Germany, from 17 to 21 October 2018.
The film will be also in competition at the Szczecin European Film Festival in Poland, to be held between 24 and 29 October.
By Yimeng Zhang
2018 • 12' • Belgium
Synopsis:
In traditional Chinese culture, the Chinese are not afraid of death, but they do care a lot about the world which the deceased would be living in. The Chinese hold the belief that the deceased world functions same as the real word, you still need to make a living and money is the basic necessity. Hence each year the Chinese would burn fake money, a kind of notes that filled with borderless imagination. Burning the ghost money, calling their names, the money would go with the wind and be delivered to the deceased. Then they won’t suffer in that world. Meanwhile the path that bonding these two worlds is not easy to go. Not to mention burning your ghost money in Europe, how can it travel all the way to China and what adventures would it encounter?