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KARAMAY

A dcumentary about the Karamay tragedy and the response of the Chinese authorities
On December 8, 1994, 323 people died in a fire in the city of Karamay, China.  Minutes before the chaos, someone said : "Everybody keep quite.  Don't move.  Let the leaders go first".
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Date

1
2 October 2011

Timetable

6pm

Location

Sala Azcona

Price

3€

Institution

Cineteca Madrid
December 8, 2007.  The sun rises on Xiaoxihu cemetary at Karamay.  Dawn colors, with its cold grey light, the far-off mountains, the sands of the Gobi, the dying grass and the solemn tombstones.  We hear the crunch of gravel, the shriek of the wind, the roar of a motor, the bark of a dog in the distance.  The camera stops, one by one, on each grave and focuses on the tiny photographs framed in glass: they are all of children.


 (Xiu Xin / 356' / 2010 / China). V.O. Mandarin / Subtitles in Spanish