DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Description
The Nan Shui Bei Diao is the world’s largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China. Many regions at death’s door depend on this project. But the risks are high, between the damage done to the environment and the impact on displaced populations. This film maps the ever-changing state of a territory redesigned by engineers, where cement reaches beyond the grasslands, rivers leave their beds, deserts become forests, and where voices gradually grow stronger, asking for justice.
Awards and festivals
- FIDOCS Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (2016)
- DOXA. Documentary Film Festival Vancouver (2016)
- Viennale International Film Festival (2015)
- DOK.fest München (2015)
- Punto De Vista - International Competition (2015)
- Millenium - International Competition (2015)
- FIDH. Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme (2015)
- Locarno Film Festival - International Competition (2014)
- WATCH DOCS. Human Rights Film Festival (2014)
- Sarajevo Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (2014)
- DocPoint Helsinki (2015)
Biography of the director
Antoine Boutet
He is a French filmmaker and a visual artist. His videos and installations –urban
landscape factories perforated by ant mazes, impossible bridges and canals, walled up
tourist attractions…– could be seen in numerous art galleries and museums for more than
ten years. Through his documentary film, Antoine Boutet offers us a new take on his work
on the political transformation of landscapes and endeavors to collect the imprint of an
uncertain future. Zone of Initial Dilution (2006), a film on the Three Gorges Dam in China,
Le plein pays (2009), a portrait of a hermit in France, have received awards at many film
festivals.
Image gallery
Finished
Sessions
May
Tuesday 8
- 19:30 h
- Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj
Data sheet
Director
Antoine Boutet
Language
Chinese - Subtitled in Spanish
Screenplay
Antoine Boutet
Cinematography
Antoine Boutet
Editing
Antoine Boutet
Sound
Antoine Boutet
Music
Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides
Producción
Patrice Nezan, Laurent Versini (lesfilmsduprésent),, Julie Paratian, Lucie Corman (Sister Productions)
