Bitter Sweet Ballad
This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the children of migrant workers. Every year when new pupils arrive, Ms. Yuan Xiaoyan, who has worked in the school choir for eight years, would choose a group of music-loving first-years with solid musical foundations to join the choir. A new group of children join the choir while those who have advanced to the second year have to discuss with their families their future choices. For choir members, their music career in middle school will eventually stop due to the pressure of high school entrance examinations and the inevitable parting. But along this journey accompanied by music, they have been savoring the joys and sorrows of their youth, burying them deep in their hearts, and transforming them into growth-promoting nutrients.
similar movies
The Competition
2017
genre:Documentary
Klassenleben
2006
genre:Documentary
La península de los volcanes
genre:Documentary
Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China
2008
genre:Documentary
Our Forgotten Creativity!
2015
genre:Documentary
History on the Run: The Media and the '79 Election
1979
genre:Documentary
Caterpillars
2020
genre:Documentary
Another Way: With Vegetables
2015
genre:Documentary
Dance for All
2007
genre:Documentary
Chine : Opérations secrètes
2024
genre:Documentary
Crime
Sticky: A (Self) Love Story
2016
genre:Documentary
Reden wir von Leben und Tod
2020
genre:Documentary
Piaget’s Developmental Theory: an Overview
1989
genre:Documentary
History
If You Build It
2013
genre:Documentary
La Vie sans Brahim
2003
genre:Documentary
Sun Inside
2019
genre:Documentary
Growing Girls
1949
genre:Documentary
The Hidden Agenda for World Government
1990
genre:Documentary
Cree Way
1977
genre:Documentary
Odyssey
2023
genre:Documentary