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The Land of Many Palaces

“Tomorrow you’ll move in an apartment building and you’ll be happy!”. China is building huge cities from ground in the middle of the desert. For the new residents, most of them coming from rural areas, the modern facilities are unknown. The documentary follows the story of populating a ghost town.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with the director Adam Jones Smith.

Director:
Adam Smith & Song Ting
Year:
2015
Country:
China
Genre:
Documentary
Duration:
61 minutes
Language:
Chinese
Subtitles:
English, Romanian

Awards and festivals:

24th International Festival of Ethnological Film, 2015 (Belgrad, Serbia) | Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2015 (Olanda) | Bar Harbor Film Festival, 2015 (ME, USA) | Architecture & Design Film Festival, 2015 (NYC, SUA) | Beijing Design Week, 2015 (China) | DMZ International Documentary Film Festival,, 2015 (Paju, Korea) | Vision Youth Awards, Communication University of China, 2015 | Documentary Edge Film Festival, 2015 (Wellington, Noua Zeelandă) | Docaviv-The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2015 (Tel Aviv, Israel) | "Best International Documentary" - Rome Independent Film Festival, 2015 (Italia) | Beijing International Film Festival, 2015 (China) | Human Rights Film Festival, 2015 (San Francisco, USA) | Miami International Film Festival, 2015 (USA) | ViBGYOR International Film Festival, 2015 (Thrissur, Kerala, India) | Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2015 (USA)