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Sud Eau Nord Déplacer (2014)

Name: Sud Eau Nord Déplacer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-11-22T10:21:55+01:00

Documentary | 110 minutes (Originele versie) / 75 minutes (IDFA)

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 110 minuten (Originele versie) / 75 minuten (IDFA)

Alternative title: South to North

Country: France / China

Directed by: Antoine Boutet

IMDb score: 7,0 (34)

Releasedate: 8 August 2014

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Sud Eau Nord Déplacer plot

The South-North Water Transfer Project is a Chinese megaproject that aims to divert 200 billion liters of water annually from the south of China to the industrial areas in the north. The project spans several decades and has been criticized a lot. Because of the waste of water and other raw materials, because of the pollution that it entails and because it makes drinking water more expensive for the Chinese citizen. Environmental disasters are looming as the Yangtze River could run dry. Antoine Boutet travels along the project and records the strange landscape that has arisen in a meditative way. Bare locks, brown rivers, endless industry and green-gray masses of towers rising in expanding areas...