Mothers

Mothers

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 2012

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

妈妈的村庄

Production Companies

CNEX Foundation

Director

Xu Huijing

Description

In rural China, the job of enforcing the Communist Party's one-child policy falls on government bureaucrats tasked with imposing fines, birth control, and forced sterilizations. Xu Huijing documents this process in his native village of Ma, following the tenacious efforts of the local birth control chief during an increased sterilization quota period, revealing the absurd and tragic local consequences of high-level government policy. (Chicago International Film Festival)