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Bing’ai
Feng Yan
Synopsis
Bing'ai and her family harvest oranges on the banks of the Yangtze River. Their misfortune is to be located in the flood basin of the Three Gorges Dam Project. Bing'ai refuses to move on the government’s terms and thus begins a decade long struggle with local officials and the land.
Programming
November 3rd
Munich/ VS – temporary home of the Museum Villa Stuck / Goethestraße 54, 80336 Munich, Germany
11:00 (GMT+2)
About the film
Production:
Feng Yan
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Chinese
Production Companies:
N/A
Cinematography:
Yan Feng, Wenze Feng
Screenplay:
N/A
Editing:
Yan Feng, Mathieu Haessler
Sound Design:
Nobuyuki Kikuchi
Music:
N/A
Cast:
N/A
Festival Track:
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Vancouver International Film Festival; Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival; Viennale.
About the director
Feng Yan
Feng Yan is a Chinese independent documentary filmmaker born in 1962. She was raised in Tianjin and attended Tianjin Foreign Studies University, graduating in 1984 with a degree in Japanese literature. Yan moved to Japan in 1988 where she studied for a PhD in economics at Kyoto University. In 1992, she worked as a translator in Tokyo where she had the opportunity to learn about documentary film. Most notably, her film Bing’ai, which documents the struggles of a Chinese woman farmer against relocation to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize at the 2007 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The film also won first prize at the 2008 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival in Spain.
