synopsis
Heaven is an emerging feature-length documentary telling a story of 21st century China through an orphanage in a small village in northern China. The orphanage, which was founded and is run by Catholic nuns, formally illegal in China, accommodates over 100 children. All of them suff er from mental or physical disability. While the fi lm addresses, directly and indirectly, some of the biggest topics of modern China: one child policy, human rights, a lack freedom of religion, corruption or deterioration of human values in a communist regime, it is also a story about love
film details
| director: | Tomáš Etzler |
| producer: | Jan Macola |
| editing: | Adéla Špaljová |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Work in Progress |
| festival edition: | 2019 |
| section: | Workshops |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Tomáš Etzler |
| original title: | Tomáš Etzler: Nebe |
| country: | Czech Republic, China |
| running time: | 80 min. |
