TRUTH DOX
Total Trust
Directors
Jialing Zhang
Producers
Jialing Zhang
Knut Jager
Michael Grotenhoff
Saskia Kress
Cinematographers
Cuier (Anonymous)
J.V. Chi. (Anonymous)
Editors
Barbara Toennieshen
Claire Shen
Sound
Jörg Gollasch
Official Film Website
Contact
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2023
Germany, Netherlands
97 min
Color
China is in the process of establishing a dictatorship based on Big Data. The film accompanies people who are fighting against an all-controlling surveillance system and in danger of being crushed by it. Thanks to exclusive and intimate access, this long-term observation shows the lives of several activists fighting for human rights, who live under extreme surveillance and traumatisation. At the same time, the film's scope broadens to include ordinary citizens whose daily behaviour is registered and evaluated by an experimental scoring system.
Director
Jialing Zhang is an independent Chinese filmmaker based in Massachusetts, US. She produced In the Same Breath (Sundance Film Festival, 2021), co-directed and produced One Child Nation (Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, 2019) and Complicit (Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 2017). Most recently, she won a Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize (US) and a Catholic Media Prize (Germany).
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