Sundance 2015, Dispatch 5: The Chinese Mayor, Cartel Land and City of Gold

The vast world of Chinese independent documentaries was finally acknowledged by Sundance with the inclusion Zhou Hao’s The Chinese Mayor. That’s not to bag on the festival for an anomalous oversight: this exciting and politically urgent strain of films has been happening for 15 years or so, but not often acknowledged by US festivals at large. This is a very good starting point. The mayor of Datong, Geng Yanbo, confesses that he’s happiest with communing with China’s past, so it makes sense that he plans to revitalize the country’s most polluted city by restoring its ancient wall, part of a […]

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