This film tells a story about an unschooled 11-year-old girl Yi-Jie, she's a truly global child who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her YI minority parents in this recycle workshop thousand miles away from their mountain village home town
Cinematography
Mountains of trash shot like dystopian cathedrals.
Direction
Wang spent years embedded; trust is visible in every frame.
Director
Jiuliang Wang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
China's 2017 National Sword policy banned most plastic imports shortly after filming, collapsing this entire economy and scattering families like Yi-Jie's. The film became accidental historical document overnight.
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