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Original Film Title: Count Down
Director’s Name: Zongrui Li
Writer’s Name: Zongrui Li
Producer: Yingqi Ren, Jianan Hou
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 6 minutes 39 seconds
Film Description:
A teenage boy with a lower-limb disability, often mocked by classmates and lacking warmth at home, momentarily imagines getting back at the bullies by sabotaging their bicycles after yet another humiliation. Just before it happens, he envisions a terrible crash that could result and realizes he, too, could become part of the harm. In the end, he doesn’t do it, rolling forward in his wheelchair instead, letting the wind and his imagination stand in for the freedom others enjoy so easily.