Up the Yangtze
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When the Three Gorges Dam on China’s historic Yangtze River is completed, two million inhabitants of shoreline villages will lose their homes. Up the Yangtze takes the viewer aboard a ferry on a farewell tour of the river, meeting passengers and villagers along the way whose attitudes regarding the fate of the river range from resigned to heartbroken. Beautifully photographed and paced, Up the Yangtze is a poignant travelogue of places that will soon cease to exist. TM
Director
Yung Chang
Producers
Germaine Ying Gee Wong, John Christou, Mila Aung-Thwin
Release Year
2008
Festival Year
2008
Country
Canada
Run Time
93 minutes