Smog Journeys

Directed by Zhangke Jia · Starring Liang Jingdong, Lu Liu, Qiang Liu, Tao Zhao · 2015

Two families, one in a Hebei mining town and one middle-class in Beijing, live very different lives under the same poisonous sky.

Jia Zhangke turns China's smog crisis into a quiet, haunting parallel portrait of two families.

Jia Zhangke’s short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. ‘Smog Journeys’ traces two familes from two d

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