Movie
Dragon Girls
2012 · 90 min
An intimate, quietly sobering look at disciplined children pushing their bodies and hopes through a rigid system.
- Directed by
- Inigo Westmeier
- Genres
- Documentary, Action, Drama
- Starring
- Huang Luolan, Chen Xi, Xin Chenxi
- Tagline
- Xin Chenxi: Tears are an expression of weakness.
- Overview
- The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressure to conform to the norms and structures. They are turned into fighting robots and yet, if you look behind the curtain, you see children with dreams and aspirations. It show the controversial world of selection of the fittest in a totalitarian system.
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- Directed by
- Inigo Westmeier
- Genres
- Documentary, Action, Drama
- Starring
- Huang Luolan, Chen Xi, Xin Chenxi
