Thursday, May 3nd - 7:00pm - Oak St. Cinema  (Best Of The Fest)   Director: Zhang Jiarui Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the Seventies still scars the national memory, whose  turmoil is the backdrop to this poetic love story about a young “ticket girl” on a country bus in the mountains and her tale about the passing of time and survival through forces of loyalty, inner strength and devotion.

Rolling over the mountains of rural China in a bus driven by Party member, Old Cui, naive young Li Chunfen, always happy to serve the needs of the Party,  develops an acute case of puppy love for frequent passenger Dr.Liu, an intellectual from Shanghai. Her chaste kiss (forbidden) and a rape report lands him in labor camp.  They shall never meet again. In the five decades spanning the picture, she never forgets this love as she  moves from  coming-of-age to maturity, when she eventually marries the much older bus driver. 

This film took top prize at 2006 Cairo Film Fest for director Zhang Jiarui and “best actress” for the moving performance of Zhang Jingchu, along with plaudits for its jaw-dropping mountain cinematography. 

Cast: Zhang Jingchu, Fan Wei, Nie Yuan

In Mandarin with English subtitles, 2006, 114 minutes, 35 mm.