ONE CHILD NATION

By Nanfu WANG, Jialing ZHANG

SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2019
U.S. Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CHINA, USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nanfu WANG, Jialing ZHANG
    • Synopsis
    • In order to expose rampant human-rights abuses, filmmaker Nanfu Wang fearlessly confronted Chinese government agents in her 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, Hooligan Sparrow. Her goal in One Child Nation is no less daunting: unmask the tightly held secrets of China’s one-child policy and, in so doing, free the voices of millions irreparably harmed by the practice.

      For Wang, now a first-time mother, investigating the policy of forcibly restricting family size spawns traumatic recollections from her own family’s recent past. These stories, in turn, unleash a dizzying number of revelations from journalists, officials, parents, and activists about the widespread enforcement of sterilization, child abandonment, and state-sponsored kidnappings.