BLIND MOUNTAIN
SFFS  Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

Opening Friday, July 11 on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas will be the second feature from respected Chinese filmmaker Li Yang, Blind Mountain .  Like his last feature, Blind Shaft, the new film explores some of the grittier aspects of Chinese life, this time turning his focus to the plight of women.

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With a harshly realistic gaze and using a largely nonprofessional -- but very impressive -- cast, director Yang establishes himself firmly with other groundbreaking contemporary Chinese filmmakers such as Lou Ye and Jia Zhang-ke. It's a harrowing story of a naïve young college student who accompanies a classmate of hers to a remote northern village in the pursuit of a promised job. Instead of gainful employment, however, she finds herself sold as a bride to a brutish peasant and held captive in his home. When an appeal to local government officials for rescue fails, she resorts to several plans of escape but is thwarted at every turn by her "husband," his extended family and the tightly knit community. Only when she is befriended by a village teacher and begins to instruct several youngsters does a plan for release from her horrific situation start to take shape.

Read more about the film at www.sffs.org/events/films/film_blind_mountain.html