Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction

Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction
dir. Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering/Netherlands, Sweden/2022/97 min.
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Gdyńskie Centrum Festiwalowe, sala Goplana
2023-05-21
12:00

In this essayistic travelogue Mirka Duijn traces the history of the image of Shangri-La, the famous imaginary paradise from the novel “Lost Horizon” (1933). Two decades ago Deqin, a Tibetan region in China, uncovered evidence proving that it was the original Shangri-La of legend. This is quite impossible because Shangri-La is a fiction, made up by British novelist James Hilton. Is this fairy tale what it seems to be? Her curiosity aroused, the filmmaker travels to the mountains of Tibetan-China with the intention to uncover the truth behind this evidence. But instead of getting answers, the maker gets entangled in a web of facts and fictions, truths and lies about the place and its colonial past. By picking apart the many strands to this surprisingly rich and complex story, this film trains a critical eye on tourism, media, and even documentary filmmaking itself.

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  • projection time:
    97 min.
  • country/year:
    Netherlands, Sweden /2022
  • director:
    Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering
  • pictures:
    Mirka Duijn
  • production:
    Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens / De Productie
  • festivals and awards:
    2022 – IDFA Amsterdam

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