Survival Song / Xiao li zi / (2008) dir. Yu Guangyi

Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of Chinese society. Han, a college graduate who used to be a forestry worker, struggles to support his wife and children by illegally hunting and trapping wild boar. They live in an abandoned logging camp with no electricity or running water. The government is clearing the area to build a reservoir and corrupt local officials decide to demolish Han’s home in the middle of the winter. At the same time, Han’s goatherder Xiao Li has returned after running off to the hills with a “crazy woman.“ Although Xiao Li is a uniquely strange character, he finds a home with this ragtag family of survivors.