A Zebra-Riding Boy

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China, 2020, 95 min

Directed by:

Juzhi Chen, Xiaotian Fan

Based on:

Su Tong (book)

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Poor bowlegged teenager Zuo Lin has a little dream to ride a horse in the most prosperous place of the city: the sad wooden horse cavalry, the happy zebra cavalry, the bleak and sad iron cavalry, the brilliant paper cavalry all melt into one. A Zebra-Riding Boy is an exploration of the combination of literature and commerce. Also, it is the first film of the impressionism-southern author Su Tong's, based on the novels “Cavalryman” and “Paper”. (Cinequest Festival)

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