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Which documentary filmmaker's 'Dead Souls' (2018), an eight-hour oral history of survivors of Mao-era labour camps, was smuggled out of China and premiered at Cannes despite the director living under government surveillance?
Answer: Wang Bing — Wang Bing's epic documentaries, starting with 'Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks' (2003), chronicle the human cost of China's industrial and political transformation.
- A Jia Zhangke
- B Wang Bing ✓
- C Ai Weiwei
- D Lou Ye
Wang Bing's epic documentaries, starting with 'Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks' (2003), chronicle the human cost of China's industrial and political transformation.