Raised from Dust
Canadian Premiere
Screening Time
Friday, May 28, 1:00 pm
Film Trailer
Fiction / China / 2006 / 102 minutes
Director：Gan, Xiao’er
Produer : Zhang, Xianming
Produced by The Seventh Seal Film Workshop
Language : Henan dialect w/ English subtitles
For the first time a film sheds light on the unexplored lives of the approximately 40 million Christians in China.
Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the Henan farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test as her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness due to unsafe working conditions, leaving his life clinging to an oxygen machine. Forced to work simple jobs to pay for her husband’s hospital care, Xiao-Li takes her young daughter out of 
school, unable to pay for tuition. She finds support only from members of her congregation. But will her faith and devotion be enough to save her family?
Festival entries
Official selection, Rotterdam International Film Festival (2007)
Official selection, Pusan International Film Festival (2007)
About Gan, Xiao’er
Gan, Xiao’er is an independent filmmaker based in China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1998 and has been teaching at the South China Normal University since his graduation. He set up The Seventh Seal Film Workshop in 2000 with a commitment to produce feature films that explore the spiritual life of the Chinese. The Seventh Seal Film Workshop has completed two films, The Only Sons and Raised from Dust.
This film is sponsored by dGenerate Films.
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