24 City
Directed by Jia Zhangke
Produced by Shanghai Film Group, Xstream Pictures
A meditative documentary-drama hybrid that captures the human cost of China's rapid modernization through intimate interviews with workers displaced by industrial demolition.
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
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