DADA'S DANCE

The neighborhood coquette, Dada, lives with her divorced mother, works at a pool hall, and is a tease to the local men. Amongst them is the boy next door, Zhoa, who has a crush on her. Her mother’s lecherous new boyfriend also has eyes for her, but when she spurns his advances, he reveals that she’s adopted. After hastily packing her bags, Dada heads out of town with Zhoa in search of her birth mother.

A Film by Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan is a trail-blazer in Chinese cinema, standing in the vanguard of its most important recent developments. In 1990, Zhang produced and directed his first feature film, Mama, the first independent film made in China since 1945. His subsequent award-winning feature films and documentaries include Beijing Bastards, which screened at Sundance in 1994; East Palace West Palace, Seventeen Years, and Little Red Flowers, which screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.