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The Land of Many Palaces

Original title: The Land of Many Palaces
Year: 2015
Running time: 61 min.
Country: China
Director: Adam Smith, Ting Song
Cast: Documentary
Music: Rob Scales
Cinematography: Adam Smith, Ting Song
Producer: Beijing Pulan Films
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. "The Land of Many Palaces" follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move. The film explores a process that will take shape on an enormous scale across China, since the central government announced plans to relocate 250,000,000 farmers to cities across the nation, over the next 20 years.

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The Land of Many Palaces

2015

Adam Smith, Ting Song