
Time(2020)
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.


“The truth beyond the propaganda.”
Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.

Nanfu Wang
Self
Jiaoming Pang
Self
Brian Stuy
Self
Longlan Stuy
Self
One Child Nation is a documentary film released in 2019 exploring themes of woman director, people's republic of china, 计划生育, 一胎. Directed by Nanfu Wang, it stars Nanfu Wang, Jiaoming Pang, Brian Stuy. Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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