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Poor Folk is the second feature movie directed by Taiwanese director Midi Z, which is packed with Return to Burma (2011) and Ice Poison (2014) by the distributor as the director's "homecoming trilogy." The trilogy depicts the lives of illegal immigrants of Chinese ethnicity on the border of Myanmar. Midi Z completed Poor Folk in the same year after Return to Burma, which grabbed international attention in many film festivals. The film presents a realistic portrayal of the life of a handful of ethnic Chinese, who try to make a living at the Thai border by drug or human trafficking. Poor Folk received sponsorship from the HBF Film Fund at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was selected by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Busan International Film Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival. It was the first Taiwanese film to be nominated for the Hawaii International Film Festival since Cape No. 7 (2008). Plot Poor Folk tells the story of A-Hong, an ethnic Chinese who illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to the border town of Tai Gu in Thailand with his sister, who was sold to a human trafficking syndicate. A-Hong first worked as an assistant to A-Fu, a tour guide and the trafficker who brought A-Hong to Bangkok. However, when Bangkok was hit by floods and the tourist business turned bad, A-Hong and A-Fu were forced to return to Tai Gu to sell precursor chemicals. Since what they could lay hold on was “Su-li-ding” instead of “Ti-fei,” the common ingredient for making amphetamine, they had to find a new buyer, a gang leader who had no intention to pay up. A-Hong's sister on the other hand was smuggled to Tai Gu by Sun-Mei, a female trafficker who was promised Taiwan's ID for her work, which was never realized. She was so desperate and hopeless that she was broken into tears when drinking with other female friends, who could only try to comfort her by telling her that it was not that bad to stay in Tai Gu. A-Hong's sister kept trying to escape but was caught back every time. Finally A-Hong was reunited with her to see her off. He told her their mother had to sell her for the money she needed and asked her not to try to run again for her own good. He promised that he would redeem her as soon as he made enough money in Bangkok, a prospect which is as empty as what San Mei was promised. Cast

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Poor Folk is the second feature movie directed by Taiwanese director Midi Z, which is packed with Return to Burma (2011) and Ice Poison (2014) by the distributor as the director's "homecoming trilogy." The trilogy depicts the lives of illegal immigrants of Chinese ethnicity on the border of Myanmar. Midi Z completed Poor Folk in the same year after Return to Burma, which grabbed international attention in many film festivals. The film presents a realistic portrayal of the life of a handful of ethnic Chinese, who try to make a living at the Thai border by drug or human trafficking.

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Poor Folk is the second feature movie directed by Taiwanese director Midi Z, which is packed with Return to Burma (2011) and Ice Poison (2014) by the distributor as the director's "homecoming trilogy." The trilogy depicts the lives of illegal immigrants of Chinese ethnicity on the border of Myanmar. Midi Z completed Poor Folk in the same year after Return to Burma, which grabbed international attention in many film festivals. The film presents a realistic portrayal of the life of a handful of ethnic Chinese, who try to make a living at the Thai border by drug or human trafficking. Poor Folk received sponsorship from the HBF Film Fund at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was selected by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Busan International Film Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival. It was the first Taiwanese film to be nominated for the Hawaii International Film Festival since Cape No. 7 (2008). Plot Poor Folk tells the story of A-Hong, an ethnic Chinese who illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to the border town of Tai Gu in Thailand with his sister, who was sold to a human trafficking syndicate. A-Hong first worked as an assistant to A-Fu, a tour guide and the trafficker who brought A-Hong to Bangkok. However, when Bangkok was hit by floods and the tourist business turned bad, A-Hong and A-Fu were forced to return to Tai Gu to sell precursor chemicals. Since what they could lay hold on was “Su-li-ding” instead of “Ti-fei,” the common ingredient for making amphetamine, they had to find a new buyer, a gang leader who had no intention to pay up. A-Hong's sister on the other hand was smuggled to Tai Gu by Sun-Mei, a female trafficker who was promised Taiwan's ID for her work, which was never realized. She was so desperate and hopeless that she was broken into tears when drinking with other female friends, who could only try to comfort her by telling her that it was not that bad to stay in Tai Gu. A-Hong's sister kept trying to escape but was caught back every time. Finally A-Hong was reunited with her to see her off. He told her their mother had to sell her for the money she needed and asked her not to try to run again for her own good. He promised that he would redeem her as soon as he made enough money in Bangkok, a prospect which is as empty as what San Mei was promised. Cast

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