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Original Film Title: Depart At Dawn
Director’s Name: Yu Ji
Writer’s Name: Weiyi Liu
Producer: Yunxiu Wang, Ruotian Fang
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming : China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 15 minutes 51 seconds
Film Description:
Yerta, a Kazakh teenager, had a “wish”. He wanted to win the prize money in the horse race and help his sister fulfill her “wish” of participating in a dance competition in Beijing. However, during the venue arrangement, an accident caused Su Xin, the newly arrived volunteer teacher, to get into a car accident. Yerta’s father sold Yerta’s pony for the horse race in order to help Su Xin repair her car. This made Yerta hostile towards Su Xin’s arrival. Su Xin learned the truth from Sa Ya. She asked Sa Ya to tell Yerta that as long as he made a wish facing the red flag when the sun rose, the “wish” in his heart would surely come true. Yerta was skeptical, but looking at the fluttering national flag, he closed his eyes…