In Beijing, the last hutongs of Qianmen, a former working-class neighborhood and the city’s living memory, are disappearing under the blows of bulldozers so that a brand-new Beijing can host the Olympic Games. The expropriations are brutal, the compensation insufficient, the protests futile. The police are watching, the press is absent. Olivier Meys films the anger and anxiety of the residents and their determination to stay until the end…
Festivals
Translator
SCAM International Award at Cinéma du Réel, Hors-frontières Award at Traces de Vies
Selections Leipzig Film Festival, Vienna Film Festival, Namur Film Festival, Syracuse Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Popoli, Saint Petersburg, Split, Doclisboa, Gindou
Production & Diffusion
In coproduction with Limited adventures
Broadcast CBA, TVR
