Bitter Money

The documentary was shot in a fast growing city in eastern China. Migrant workers have come there from other regions. All of them came for a better life. What they find is little work and poor housing. Those conditions damage the relations between people as well. Pressure and violence appear even between couples. The film follows people such as Xiao Min, Ling Ling and Lao Yeh. It is put together as a bitter chronicle of China as it is now. Those lives are what the chronicle is made of. Wang Bing’s French and Hong Kong coproduction, a hundred and sixty three minutes long, was completed in 2018.