"Liu Mang De Sheng Yan" ("Feast of Villains")
The final film in competition, this is a sad tale of a gentle son's quest to raise money to pay for his father's medical bills to keep him alive.
Set in present-day China, the young man works as a delivery person, struggling to make ends meet. Forced to find a way to raise quick money for his father's illness, he resorts to selling one of his kidneys in a black market transaction.
In a journey that can be likened to what Dante wrote about centuries before, this young man descends into the bowels of China's subculture, loses a kidney, and is ultimately cheated out of the money owed him for his missing organ.
When he returns to his hometown, penniless, he realizes that his father passed away while he himself was recovering.
This sad tale continues as the son struggles to obtain an official death certificate to deliver his father to the crematorium.
Casting a long shadow on modern China, this is a film that most likely will be unwelcome in its home country.
