Boris Svartzman

A New Era - Trailer

Une nouvelle ère - 走進新時代 (A New Era)
72' - France - 2019

Directed by Boris Svartzman
Image, Sound: Boris Svartzman
Script: Boris Svartzman, Laurine Estrade
Editing: Suzana Pedro, Emma Augier
Sound editing: Nans Mangeard
Sound mixing: N'Dembo Ziavoula
Calibration: Lucie Bruneteau
Production: Macalube Films, Prima Luce
Coproduction: Vià Vosges, Boris Svartzman

Synopsis:
In 2008, local authorities evict 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China to make way for new urban planning projects - a fate shared by five billion rural citizens of China yearly. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police pressure, a handful of inhabitants return to the island. For seven years, I have filmed 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.