Knife in the clear water

Wang Xuebo / CN, 2016 / 93 min.

A fascinating and scenic portrait of the Hui, a Chinese Muslim minority in the Ningxia province, located in the misty North of China. Tradition forces the elderly farmer Ma Zishan to slaughter his only bull for the ceremony to commemorate his wife who died forty days before. But he finds it hard to part with his trusted helper on the land…