Before the Flood II is a profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project. Three years after Before the Flood generated global criticism towards the Three Gorges Dam Project, Yan Yu achieves intimate access again, this time to the Gongtan villagers as they protest official meetings and face off with construction workers eager to tear down their homes for a day’s pay. Ling Woo Liu of Time Magazine writes in his review, “Yan Yu’s long-term commitment to the subject matter (he has spent the last six years working on these films) shines through in this latest effort to chronicle the human cost of a project that has forced 1.4 million people to relocate”.
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