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THE CHINESE MAYOR

By Hao ZHOU

AEGEAN FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2014


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Sundance Film Festival 2015
World Documentaries Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access
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    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hao ZHOU
    • Producer(s)
    • Qi ZHAO (Qi Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Tanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong’s total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future. —H.V.
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