WAVELENGTHS LES ÂMES MORTES
DEAD SOULS written & directed by Wang Bing
FRANCE / SWITZERLAND Documentary, 495 min., 2018 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Chinese PRODUCTION: Les Films d’Ici, Paris / Adok Films, Geneva / CS Productions, Paris
WORLD SALES: Doc & Film International, Paris www.docandfilm.com WORLD PREMIERE: Festival de Cannes 2018, Special Screenings
Documentary
WANG BING * 1967 in China. Wang Bing studied photography at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and cinematography at Beijing Film Academy. Wang belongs to China’s most important documentary filmmakers and is known for THE DITCH (2010), selected for the Mostra Internazionale in Venice, THREE SISTERS (2012), screened and awarded in Venice and ’TIL MADNESS DO US PART (2013), programmed in Venice, Toronto and Rotterdam. MR. FANG (2017) won the Golden Leopard in Locarno.
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In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these people were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.