Director: Meng Fanda

Synopsis

The subject of this documentary is Zhang Meng. As a child, he appeared in the film My September, which won Best Children's Film at the 1991 Golden Rooster Awards, and he received the Outstanding Child Actor award at the Golden Calf Awards; his role is a classic screen image in Chinese children's cinema. My September, produced by the China Children's Film Studio, was shot in Beijing in the summer of 1990, exactly 30 years ago. It was a celluloid feature by Yin Li, a Fifth Generation director, and is one of the representative works of Chinese children's films and sports films. In the documentary Am I An Dashazi, Meng Fanda, a 2017 MFA student at the School of Arts, Peking University, tracks down the people and locations from the film to explore how it shaped the growth of its young actors, and presents the collective significance of the character "An Dashazi." At first, Zhang Meng, who played An Dashazi, was unhappy with his life and did not want to talk about the role. Later he agreed to take part and opened up, and after 30 years he returns to the camera to face the audience who loved him, and finally lets go of what had been weighing on him.