Feng Yan
2021秉爱
Feng Yan
Feng Yan spent seven years in the Three Gorges region following a peasant woman, Bingai, who refused to give up her land [for new development]. Feng is greatly moved by Bingai’s uncompromising personality. Feng says that most Chinese people give up their land too easily, like losers. Meanwhile, the extraordinary effort Feng puts into making this documentary is comparable to Bingai’s perseverance. In this sense, the filmmaker and her subject are mirror image of each other.
Bing'ai
长江梦
Feng Yan
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam will force nearly a million people on both sides of the river to relocate from their villages. This film follows several local families as they face the fate of leaving their villages, complaining about being forced to leave their ancestral homeland, resigning themselves to the situation, and reluctantly reacting.
The Dreams of Yangtze
