ONE CHILD NATION

By Nanfu WANG, Jialing ZHANG

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Documentary - Completed 2019

First-time mother and filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) uncovers the untold history of China's One-Child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2019
Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase
Stockholm FF 2019
Stockholm Documentary Competition Best Documentary
Sundance 2019
US Doc Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, CHINA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nanfu WANG, Jialing ZHANG
    • Synopsis
    • With chilling clarity, Wang’s new documentary delivers a dizzying number of revelations from journalists, officials, parents, and activists about the widespread enforcement of sterilisation, child abandonment, and state-sponsored kidnappings. It reveals how relentless propaganda brainwashed and terrorised countless Chinese citizens into committing unspeakable crimes against fellow villagers and family members. Through interviews with both victims and instigators, One Child Nation breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped—and destroyed—countless lives.