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Mar 5, 2021 · A village in southern China becomes a hotbed of democratic reform — with complicated aftereffects — in Jill Li’s epic political documentary “Lost Course,” a remarkable feat of embedded journalism...
- Robert Abele
Mar 4, 2021 · “Lost Course” uses a local uprising that made international headlines to pose broader questions about the feasibility of democratic and anticorruption reforms in China.
Dec 9, 2020 · ‘Lost Course’: Film Review. Hong Kong documaker Jill Li takes a good long look at a grassroots democracy movement in China in 'Lost Course,' taking its European bow at IDFA.
Mar 5, 2021 · Lost Course (2019) chronicles a grassroots democratic movement in the southern Chinese village of Wukan. The villagers protest against the corrupt local officials before ousting them and organising elections of their own.
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- Jill Li
- 2021-03-05
Embedding herself in the village of Wukan, southern China for several years starting in 2011, first time documentarian Jill Li witnessed an unprecedented experiment in local democracy. Corrupt officials had illegally sold villagers' land, but the villagers decided to fight back.
Embedding herself in the village of Wukan, southern China for several years starting in 2011, first time documentarian Jill Li witnessed an unprecedented experiment in local democracy.
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Mar 5, 2021 · Embedding herself into the impoverished fishing village of Wukan in southern China, first-time filmmaker Jill Li's documentary, Lost Course, gains intimate, unprecedented access to the machinations of local democracy after corrupt officials had illegally sold off the villagers' scarce land.
