24 City

Xiao Hua (Joan Chen) wants to be heard, and so do the others Jia Zhangke sits down with in Chengdu, workers and families tied to a state-run aeronautics munitions factory that is coming down. Where the plant stood, a luxury apartment complex called 24 City will go up. Across three generations, from the 1950s to the present, the film lets a place be remembered by the people who spent their working lives inside it.