Dream Empire

Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who recently arrived in Chongqing to pursue her “Chinese Dream.” Drawn by the easy riches of China’s historic real estate boom, she opens a foreigner rental agency designed to help Chinese real estate developers market their new developments. But this business takes a dubious turn as her foreigners are used in a surreal effort to turn rural ghost towns into “globalized booming cities” on the days that investors and political leaders visit. Τhe film is at once a personal story and a chronicle of one of the most critical economic issues of our time, and is conveyed with subtle irony and respect through the lens of a director-anthropologist.

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Cinematography: Lars Skree

Editing: Anders Villadsen, Christian Einshoj

Music: Jason Prover

Production: House of Real

Producers: Jesper Jack

Format: Color

Production Country: Denmark

Production Year: 2016

Duration: 73

Contact: Gunpowder & Sky Distribution cj@gunpowdersky.com