China - 2003

Synopsis: Dam Street is based on a true story. Little Yong, age 8 has a hero, his uncle Feng. Uncle Feng has a lover, called Xiao.Xiao has a protector, the town hoodlum. When uncle Feng gets out of prison, he finds that life on Dam Street has taken a turn for the worse.

Dam Street is supported by Fonds Sud Cinéma of french CNC Foreign Affairs Minister. The film was screened in 2005 and selected in many festivals.

An Nai was born in Shanghaï in 1965.

In 1991, after graduating from the Chinese Central Theatre Academy (directing departement), she started to produce films, TV series, commercials and music videos.

Her first long feature, Weekend Lover (1993), by Lou Ye, won the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize for the Best Director, in Mannheim, 1996.

In 1997, along with other young directors, she launched the Dream Factory. She produced a series on DV: Super City (1997), as well as long features directed by Lou Ye : Suzhou River (Tiger Award, Rotterdam, Best Film and Best Actress - Festival du film de Paris 2000) and Purple Butterfly (Competition, Cannes 2003).

Li Yu was born in 1973.

She studied Chinese Litterature. She was a TV host for 7 years. In 1996, she resigned from television and began directing documentaries: Old Sister (1996), Expectancy (1997) and When Women Left Men (1999) - each film won a Chinese Golden Award for documentaries.

Her first feature length film, Fish and Elephant, won the Prize Elvira Notari, in venise, in 2001, and the Grand Prix at the Berlin Forum 2002.

Dam Street (Produire au Sud selection) will be her second feature.