CHINA’S 3 DREAMS - Thoughts and ideas from Lei, the main subject of the film

Filmed over an 11-year period, Nick Torrens’ essay film about China in the modern world is an exploration of the missing years - the years of the Cultural Revolution. This period is rarely talked about and is expurgated from the history taught in schools, and yet those years have left a traumatic imprint on every Chinese family.
In exploring this “missing history”, Torrens introduces us to a young woman, Zhang Lei, from an ancient village in southwest China and follows her search for an understanding of the past and the present life around her. Many years ago, Chinese people had just three dreams: a watch, a wireless and a bicycle. But now, confused by silences and half-truths, China’s young people, like Lei, have new dreams to guide them: to make China rich and powerful, to find a better material life for themselves, and to find a meaningful existence.
• Best Documentary, Film Critics’ Circle of Australia
• Best Documentary, Singapore International Film Festival
• Grand Jury Best Documentary, Hong Kong World International Film Festival
• Grand Jury Audience Award, Los Angeles World International Film Festival
• IAMS Award, Espiello Festival of Ethnography & Visual Anthropology Spain
• Best Documentary Asia Pacific, Dosima, Jakarta
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