Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who recently arrived in Chongqing to pursue her "Chinese Dream." Drawn by the glamour and easy riches of China's historic real estate boom, she opens a foreigner rental agency designed to help Chinese real estate developers market their new developments. But this business takes a dubious turn as her foreigners are increasingly used in a surreal effort to turn remote rural ghost towns into "globalized booming cities" on the days that outside investors and political leaders visit. When the inevitable happens and the real estate bubble starts to pop, Yana is forced to sell her company and reassess everything she ever believed in. Shot over several years, the film is at once a personal story and an on-the-ground chronicle of one of the most critical economic issues of our time.
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Danish title
Den kinesiske drøm
Other titles
Dream Empire
Keywords
China, , Young women, Entrepreneurs, Residences, Neighborhoods
First feature documentary by American director and anthropologist David Borenstein, who started making Dream Empire while in China doing a PhD on the country’s housing boom. The film was selected for IDFA’s First Appearance competition.
Kiev, Docudays UA International Human Rights Film Festival
2017-03-24
CPH:DOX
2017-03-16
Prague, One World Human Rights Film Festival
2017-03-06
Tempo Dokumentärfestival
2017-03-06
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
2017-03-03
Miami International Film festival
2017-03-03
ZagrebDox
2017-02-26
Amsterdam, IDFA
2016-11-16
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