Oh, The San Xia 2013

The Three Gorges Dam continues to cast a long shadow on Chinese society, politics and environmentalism, as this documentary studying the project's road to final completion in 2012 demonstrates. Some of the Mainland's most prominent figures past and present – Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, among others - are taken to task for rushing the project. The result is long-term ecological destruction, widespread elimination of local economies and forced relocations. Director Wang Libo lends his voice to the wave of criticisms of one of China's most controversial projects.