Bandeau Dead Souls by Wang Bing

Dead Souls

By Wang Bing

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

Trailer

Festivals & Awards

Cannes International Film Festival 2018 – Official Selection

Toronto International Film Festival 2018 – Wavelenghts

Busan International Film Festival 2018

IDFA 2018

Golden Horse Film Festival 2018

Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2018

Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2018

Montreal International Documentary Festival 2018

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019 – Grand Prize & Citizens’ Prize

Göteborg International Film Festival 2019

Doclisboa International Film Festival 2018

Press

Masterful, heart-wrenching, harrowing and essential.

Screenplay

 

A immensely perceptive piece.

The Hollywood Reporter

 

A monumental achievement.

Sight & Sound

 

A powerfully sobering and clear-eyed investigation.

Variety

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