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EventCompetition - Grand reportage
World premiere of XIMEI - In the presence of Ai Weiwei
By Andy Cohen & Gaylen Ross
This poignant and sensitive film is a portrait of Liu Ximei, a young Chinese woman who fights to defend the rights of people living with HIV in China, against all odds. Millions of Chinese people were infected in the 1990s: across the country, the government encouraged poor farmers to donate blood in exchange for compensation under catastrophic health conditions. A hidden scandal... but for how long?
Section Event & Competition - Grand reportage
- Director(s)
- Andy Cohen & Gaylen Ross
Producers
- Andy Cohen
- Gaylen Ross
- Chin-Chin Yap
Executive producer
- Ai Weiwei
Rights holder
- Andy Cohen
- Duration
- 100'
- Year
- 2019
- Production country
- Morocco
- Status
- World Premiere
Saturday 16 March
11:00
Espace Pitoëff - Grande salle
Followed by a discussion with Ximei et Yang Yong, protagonists of the film, Andy Cohen, Gaylen Ross and Ai Weiwei, moderated by Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
