One Child Nation

One Child Nation merges the personal and the political in its depiction of China's controversial one child policy, and is a film which is guaranteed to provoke discussion and debate. The Chinese birth control policies was a measure to slow a rapid growth in population, and although it was changed in 2016 to allow each couple to have two children, it remains highly contested in China and abroad.

This film focuses on the brutal consequences especially for Chinese women. Directors Nanfu Wang og Jialing Zhang show how the policy has been implemented through the use of propaganda, surveillance, forced sterilisation and adoption. Wang og Zhang are themselves women, born into a China where girls where not highly appreciated by families. Through inserint their own private footage into the narration, they add an emotional and debth to the film.

Nanfu Wang (b. 1985) is a Chinese-American filmmaker known for her award-winning film Hooligan Sparrow (2016). Co-director Jialing Zhang has directed documentaries such as When the Last Trees Die (2013) and Complicit (2017) about the conditions in Chinese factories producing smart phones.