Bingai

<i>Bing'ai</i>

Bing'ai

2007 Chinese documentary film


Bing'ai (Chinese: 秉爱, also romanized Bingai) is a 2007 Chinese documentary film directed and produced by Feng Yan (冯艳). It is about a peasant woman, Zhang Bing'ai, who refused to relocate during the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.

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Awards

Bing'ai won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize at the 2007 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.[1] It also won First Prize at the 2008 Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival.[2]

Reception

In Variety, Robert Kohler called it a "beautifully observed" documentary and a "worthy addition to the Mainland's astonishing onrush of nonfiction films that take measure of the human scale in Chinese life".[3]

See also

  • Up the Yangtze, a 2007 documentary film about people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam

References

  1. "YIDFF: 2007: Jury Comments". Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  2. "Prizes". Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. Kohler, Robert (24 October 2007). "Bingai". Variety. Retrieved 6 May 2014.



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