
Four Ways to Die in My Hometown(2012)
The effect of people moving away from the Chinese countryside, portrayed in poetic, occasionally stunning and often magical scenes. A student returns to her birthplace because she has a premonition that her father, who has already been in his coffin for seven years, is dying.
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