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Films
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Country
“China”
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Keywords
“Urban”
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Directors
“Svartzman, Boris”
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Country of production
“China”
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Festival Prize Category
“Werbner Award”
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films hosted on Kanopy
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Region
Central Asia and Far East
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Country
China
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Keywords
Development projects
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Infrastructure\transport
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Land rights
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Resettlement
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Urban
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Directors
Svartzman, Boris
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Country of production
China
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France
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Year of production
2019
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Festival Prize Category
Film
A New Era
2019
71
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
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In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police pressure, a handful of inhabitants returned to the island. For seven years, Boris Svartzman filmed their battle to save their ancestral land, from the ruins of the village where nature is slowly reasserting itself, to the worksites of the mega city which inexorably advances towards them. Will they share the same fate of five million Chinese peasants expropriated yearly?
Central Asia and Far East
Urban
Development projects
Infrastructure\transport
Land rights
Resettlement