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Pétition : La Cour des plaignants / Petition

Programme(s) : Hors compétition
China - France
2009
Documentary


Since 1996 Zhao Liang has filmed the “petitioners”, who come from all over China to make complaints in Beijing about abuses and injustices committed by the local authorities. Gathered near the complaints offices in Beijing, living in most cases in makeshift shelters. Faced with the most brutal intimidation from the local authorities the complainants wait for months or years to obtain justice often in vain. A film shot right up to the start of the Olympic Games, showing the persistent contradictions of China in the midst of powerful economic expansion.





Zhao Liang

Filmography
Paper Air Plane (1997/2001), Farewell Yuan Ming Yuan (1995/2006), Au bord du fleuve sur la frontière sino-coréenne (2006), Crime and Punishment (2007, Montgolfière d’Or au Festival des 3 Continents 2007 ), Pétition : La Cour des plaignants (1996/2009, Sélection officielle Hors Compétition Cannes 2009)


Credits :
124' / DigiBeta / Couleur / VOSTF



Photography : Zhao Liang
Sound : Laurent Thomas
Editing : Sylvie Blum, Bruno Barwise, Shun Zi, Zhao Liang
Producer(s) : INA , ARTE

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