Plastic China

Plastic China (2017)

January 20th, 20171h 26min

Documentary
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Overview

This film tells a story about an unschooled 11-year-old girl Yi-Jie, she's a truly global child who learns the world through the United Nations of Wastes while working with her YI minority parents in this recycle workshop thousand miles away from their mountain village home town


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