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France - Switzerland | 2018 | Color | Creative Documentary | 79 min
SYNOPSIS
What if you were a passer-by in the Beijing streets, a peasant hoping for the rain to fall, a steelworker in disappearing factories, a tourist on a packed beach, praying in Ningxia or Qinghai, a construction worker after an earthquake, a fisherman repairing his fishnet, or a dancer waiting to get on stage? A personal contemporary portrait of a country, a population and a society by Wang Xiaoshuai.
FESTIVALS, selective list
- Busan IFF 2018, Wide Angle
- Taipei Golden Horse 2018, Chinese Global Vision
- IDFA 2018, Master Section
- MoMA 2019, Doc Fortnight
- True/False 2019
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2019
- CPH: DOX
- It's All True International Documentary Film Festival 2019, International Competition
- Dok. Fest Munchen 2019, Main Competition
- Sheffielf Doc Fest, UK 2019
- Melbourn IFF, Documentary Visions
- Vladivostok IFF
AWARDS
- EPA CINE 2019
Jury Special Mention
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CAST & CREDITS
Director
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Producers
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Executive Producer
Production
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WANG Xiaoshuai
WU Di
ZENG Jian
ZENG Hui
PIAO Xinghai
Valérie LOISELEUX
LV Dong
Valérie LOISELEUX
Mikaël BARRE
Isabelle GLACHANT
LIU Xuan
LIANG Ying
QIAN Yini
Front Films Co LTD
Chinese Shadows
Vision Sud Est
Asian Shadows
PRESS REVIEWS
"It confirms Wang’s stature as one with the courage to pose disturbing questions."
-- Berenice REYNAUD, Variety
"With CHINESE PORTRAIT, WANG Xiaoshuai transcends language to present a compelling picture of the China he knows, a China that is rapidly changing."
-- Peter KELLY, Director of Distribution, Cinema Guild USA, Variety