France

71', 2019

DIRECTED BY

Boris Svartzman

PRODUCED BY

Anne-Catherine Witt, Antonio Magliano

SCRIPTWRITER

Boris Svartzman, Laurine Estrade

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Boris Svartzman

EDITED BY

Suzana Pedro, Emma Augier

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In 2008, local authorities evict 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China to build a presumed Ecological Park. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police pressure, a handful of inhabitants return to the island. For 7 years, Boris films their battle to save their ancestral land, from the ruins of the village where nature is slowly reasserting itself, to the worksites of the mega city which inexorably advances towards them. Will they share the same fate of 5 billions of Chinese peasants expropriated yearly?

Boris Svartzman, French and Argentinian, documents as an anthropologist and photographer China’s urbanisation. In “A New Era”, he filmed during 7 years the resistance of peasants to their land grab