"Fruit Farm" (chin. 果场) delves into the complex history of Nana's hometown in southwest China - a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution, a fruit farm and, more recently, a drug rehabilitation center. While ever new plans reform the place, the unresolved past shapes the lives of the people who were originally deported to this remote place.
The film intertwines personal reminiscences of both the filmmaker and the residents to shed light on the lingering effects of an unresolved past.
About Fruit Farm (果场)
There is a phenomenon where both ex-Nazi parents and those who experienced concentration camps avoid discussing their past with their children. My father, too, never shared his history with me, and I never dared to inquire why. Perhaps it was a sense of shame, a perception of something regrettable that my father might have done.
However, a small moment shifted my point of view. One day, my father, reading a paragraph about Mao in my middle school history book, exclaimed, 'Now it's allowed to say that Mao isn't just right?' This revelation surprised me, to realising that the narration of history isn’t solid.
So is the history what I learned true? I slowly comprehended that the habit of avoiding discussions about the unpleasant had hindered me from understanding the truth and deprived me of the chance to hear my father's past. Through this film, I strive to capture fragments of a fading past.
Crew
| Director | Nana Xu |
| Camera | Nana Xu |
| Producer | Christian Xu |
| Audio Mixing | Markus Färber |
| Color Grading | León Kobzik |