One Child Nation

Friday 16th August

6.00 pm

Director Nanfu Wang is a member of the One Child Generation in China. After becoming a mother herself, she uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment. Traumatic recollections from her own family’s recent past unleash a dizzying number of revelations from journalists, officials, parents, and activists.

This brilliant combination of cultural reporting and interpersonal reckoning manages to encapsulate decades of under-reported events within a palatable narrative accessible to viewers with no prior understanding of the policy's history.

Densely informative yet always grounded in deep personal investment and clear-eyed compassion
- Hollywood Reporter

DIRECTOR: Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang COUNTRY: China, USA LANGUAGE: English and Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles YEAR: 2019 RUN TIME: 85 min AUDIENCE: Unclassified 15+

Trailer

China's One Child Policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the trauma of its brutal enforcement is only just beginning.