Dam Street - Film July 11, 2009

Dam Street - Film (Chinese Film/2005). Directed by Li Yu. In the early 1980s, Xiao Yun, a 16-year-old girl living in a small riverside town, discovers she is pregnant. The local community is shocked, her family loses face and she and her boyfriend are expelled from school. Her boyfriend leaves her, she gives birth and is then forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, Xiao Yun is reduced to working as a singer in a local song and dance troupe. Her only real companion is Xiao Yong, a fiercely affectionate boy who protects her from the critical eyes of the community - until a marriage proposal uncovers the limits of their friendship and the depths of her unresolved past. As part of Look East! Contemporary Cinema from Asia - Film Festival.

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