Total Trust

by Jialing Zhang

Total Trust

Germany | 2023 | 97:00 min

Formal Categories

Current Affairs Human Interest Society Human Rights

Content Categories

Documentary

Synopsis

China is in the process of establishing a dictatorship based on Big Data. The film accompanies people who are fighting against an all-controlling surveillance system and in danger of being crushed by it. Thanks to exclusive and intimate access, this long-term observation shows the lives of several activists fighting for human rights, who live under extreme surveillance and traumatisation. At the same time, the film's scope broadens to include ordinary citizens whose daily behaviour is registered and evaluated by an experimental scoring system.

Festivals/Awards

2023
20 CPH:DOX, Denmark
movies that matter festival, The Netherlands
2023
38 DOK.fest Munich – nominated VFF Documentary Film Production Award
30 Hot Docs Toronto
28 IDFF It's All True | É Tudo Verdade
Special Mention Tim Hethering Award – 30 Sheffield DocFest
Millenium DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY
22 DOKFEST Prizren, Kosovo
31 FFHH – Filmfest Hamburg
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
27 Ji.hlava IDFF
14 DOC NYC
2024
FIFDH Geneve
German Documentary Award – 8 SWR Doku Festival
2025
GRIMME PRIZE section Information & Culture

Cast and Crew

Director Jialing Zhang

Original Languages

Chinese

World Sales Company

Cinephil
18 Levontin Street, 6511207 Tel Aviv

Phone: +972 3 5664129

info@cinephil.com
http://cinephil.com

Production Company

FILMTANK GmbH
Lippmannstr. 53, 22769 Hamburg

Phone: +49 40 4318610

Fax: +49 40 43186111

filmtank@filmtank.de
http://www.filmtank.de

Links / Reference

DISTRIBUTION Germany
Piffl Medien
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TRAILER
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