When one billion rural Chinese move to cities, our planet will change irreversibly. Finnish professor Eero Paloheimo and Chinese business magnate Zhang Yue are going to save the world by reinventing the city. Their utopias are very different: Zhang plans to build the tallest and most ecological building on Earth, an Eco-city in the shape of a skyscraper, built at world record speed. Paloheimo has designed a unique clean-tech test laboratory city, and struggles to get it built in a flourishing valley outside Beijing. Is the future of urban mankind in the cherry valleys of China or high up in the sky?
Information
| Original name |
Ecopolis China |
| Original language |
Finnish/Chinese |
| Subtitles |
Finnish/English/Swedish |
| Genre |
Documentary |
| Production year |
2013 |
| Production country |
Finland |
| Running time |
56 min |
| Trailer |
https://vimeo.com/78913399 |
Crew
| Direction |
Anna-Karin Grönroos (also scriptwriter) |
| Script |
Anna-Karin Grönroos |
| Cinematography |
Mika Mattila |
| Sound design |
Martti Turunen |
| Composer |
Ville Riippa |
| Editing |
Mikko Sippola |
| Graphic |
Samuli Alapuranen |
Screenings and awards
TV-screenings
- 20.04.2014 VPRO
- 15.02.2014 YLE TV1 Dokumenttiprojekti
- 10.02.2014 YLE TV1 Dokumenttiprojekti
Festivals
- 15.01.2015 Ekenäs FilmFest
- 04.12.2014 Stalker Festival 2014, Tallinn / Estonia
- 29.10.2014 Seoul International Architecture Film Festival
- 23.10.2014 Human rights Documentary FF "Inconvenient Films"
- 10.10.2014 10Day Fest - The Social Innovation Festival
- 06.10.2014 Astra Film Festival
- 26.09.2014 Barbican Centre
- 20.09.2014 Aegean Docs
- 17.06.2014 ICA Institution of Contemporary Arts
- 01.06.2014 Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival
- 09.05.2014 PLANETE DOC Film Festival
- 09.05.2014 11th Green Film Festival in Seoul
- 04.05.2014 DocVille International Documentary Film Festival
- 26.04.2014 Crossing Europe Film Festival
- 24.11.2013 Lens Politica
- 22.11.2013 IDFA International Film Festival Amsterdam
Production
- Venla Hellstedt
- Pertti Veijalainen, Illume Oy
