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ECOPOLIS CHINA (56')

Directed by ANNA-KARIN GRÖNROOS

  • “...fascinating glimpses behind the scenes of the Chinese eco gold rush.”
    The Guardian UK

What will the city of the future look like?

When one billion rural Chinese move to cities, our planet will change irreversibly. Mr. Eero Paloheimo, a Finnish professor and Chinese business magnate Zhang Yue are going to save the world by reinventing the City as we know it. Both visions are bold, cutting edge and never attempted.

Their utopias are very different however: Businessman Zhang plans to build the tallest for 10 000 inhabitants in Changsha, China in record speed. The tower would not cause nearly any emissions and you’d never have to leave the building. Paloheimo has designed a unique clean-tech test laboratory city, and struggles to get it built in a valley outside Beijing. Democracy in Europe is too slow in solving the climate crisis and so Paloheimo has come to China to see if his vision can become a reality. The film deftly juxtaposes these two visions of urban living to determine whether our future lies in the cherry valleys of China or in a race to the sky.

For director Anna-Karin Grönroos this film marks the beginning of a fascination with this overwhelming country that is China. Visiting different cities in China gives one a new perspective on urbanization at high speed. This is the biggest and fastest migration in human history – never before have people left their home village
for a new life in the city at this rapid pace. During the few years when this film was made new cities have mushroomed in China, and the old ones now have tens of millions more urban citizens.

Eero Paloheimo and Zhang Yue have very different suggestions on how to solve the paradox of sustainability in a country in which by 2030 will have one billion urban consumers. One billion! What kind of cities will we live in a hundred years from now? Ecopolis China asks this question now, because the future of mankind lies in the decisions our urban planners and government leaders make about the cities of the future.

Produced by Illume Ltd.

For more info please visit: http://www.ecopolischina.fi/
"ECOPOLIS CHINA in Reuters" In The Press
Reuters: Anna-Karin Grönroos director of ECOPOLIS CHINA discusses China’s eco-cities.MORE +
Design Exchange Magazine: ECOPOLIS CHINA highly informative...highlights some of the ambitions, reservations and conflicts that surround the Eco-City topic today.MORE +
Good News (Estonia): ECOPOLIS CHINA to inspire viewers to decipher utopian ideas through the cityscape and its future.MORE +
Suduvos Gidas: Ecopolis China at the "Inconvenient Films" Human Rights Film Festival LithuaniaMORE +
Think Outside The Box: Interview with ECOPOLIS CHINA engineer who designed the green utopia worldMORE +
ECOPOLIS CHINA screens at 'T Hoogt in UtrechtMORE +
Thoughts from the Lower Ground on ECOPOLIS CHINA: Zhang Yue and his yet to be built Sky City MORE +
China Daily: ECOPOLIS CHINA depicts two divergent visions for eco-cities that stir uncertainties about the best way forward.MORE +
Design Curial: ECOPOLIS CHINA explores the problems facing the environment of the world at largeMORE +
Guardian: A new documentary ECOPOLIS CHINA goes behind the scenes of the great Chinese eco gold rushMORE +

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