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NA CHINA

Marie Voignier

Jackie, Julie and Shanny, like thousands of young women and men from the African continent, have went to Guangzhou in China, hoping to make a fortune there. Struggling in the globalized Chinese economy, they try to start or to improve their business in relation with their home countries. Piles of Nike sneakers, Vuitton handbags by parcels of 100, Gucci shirts in pallets ... every day, these small or big investors, beginners or experienced, buy, pack and ship tons of goods which are stacked up in containers bound for Douala, Lagos or Mombasa.

on tënk

with

  • Mefodoup Roxane Julie, Uwimana Shanny, Jackie, Kelly Williams, Remmie, Stephanie Idio, Guo Yun, Ning Xiaohu, Still Thegain, Li Zhenhai
  • 70 minutes
  • Director : Marie Voignier
  • Realiser : Marie Voignier
  • Editor : Rodolphe Molla
  • Producer : Eugénie Michel Villette ; Dieudonné Alaka ; Nikita Yingqian Cai
  • Image : Thomas Favel ; Marie Voignier
  • Sound: Li Binggen
  • Sound editor / mixeur : Thomas Fourel
  • Etalonneur : Yannig Willmann
  • Assistant editor : Wei-Yuan Song
  • Assistant sound : Chen Mengchun

partenership

  • CNC
  • CNAP
  • Kadist
  • Procirep Angoa
  • L’institut français de Chine
  • tënk.fr
  • SCAM

news

  • "This hypnotic dive into the undersides of a globalization rarely shown so concretely overturns the perspective, to deny the image of a dominated Africa. Under the neon lights of sad hotel rooms, warehouses and shops where the tickets pass from hand to hand, Marie Voignier reveals, in its apparent triviality, a new geography of capitalism. The different narrative levels, embodied by the protagonists and their daily activities, draw the networks and ramifications of this booming economy." Télérama
  • Read the interview with Marie Voignier in Libération : « A Guangzhou, la mondialisation par le bas »
  • Read the interview by Gabriel Bortzmeyer about two films by Marie Voignier on the journal’s website Débordements : « Le Bruit du canon / Na China, Marie Voignier »

projections and selections in Festivals

  • ONLINE ON TËNK • 2021
  • DOCUMENTARY FILM LIBRARY AT CENTRE POMPIDOU • as part of “Voir grand avec La Lucarne” • octobre 2021
  • VISIONS DU RÉEL •Compétition internationale Burning Lights • Nyon, Switzerland, 2020
  • PROJECTION AT CENTRE POMPIDOU • Paris, 2020
  • FILMER LE TRAVAIL FESTIVAL • International competition • Poitiers, February 2021