directed by: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, year: 2019
actors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

One Child Nation (2019) is a documentary directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang that probes the human cost of China's one-child policy. Using intimate home footage, archival material, and conversations with families, social workers, and officials, the film shows how coercive birth control, abortions, and forced adoptions altered generations. Personal memory, historical context, and moral reflection intertwine to ask how a nation defines motherhood, belonging, and identity under state power.

Equality, Documentary, Investigative, Social Issues, China