24 City

A masterful new film from Jia Zhang-ke, director of Still Life, 24 City chronicles the dramatic and thunderous fall of a State-owned munitions factory and its conversion into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. Artfully composed, rich in offbeat details, and punctuatedwith pop songs, 24 City weaves together the stories of three generations of factory workers (some real, some performed by actors) into a fascinating oral history of post-revolutionary China and the massive changes transforming the country. (official distributor synopsis)