Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Year: 1998

Runtime: 99 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Joan Chen

Drama

Xiu Xiu, a teenage girl, is dispatched in 1975 to the desolate Sichuan steppes for compulsory manual labor as part of the Cultural Revolution's youth‑sent‑down program. After a year, she chooses to accompany the itinerant Tibetan horseman Lao Jin to an even more isolated region, where she begins learning the art of horse herding.

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