Dead pigs

Standing right in the middle of a huge construction site is the solitary house of Candy Wang. Each day the property developers ask her to leave, sometimes offering her money, sometimes threatening her with bulldozers. She always refuses. When an American architect is called in to persuade her, the deadlock appears to be breaking. Dead Pigs is a social satire about a China where commerce threatens to swallow everything. Besides the idealistic Candy we see a nihilistic influencer, a naïve pig farmer with debts and the indoctrinated owner of a beauty salon. All of them are connected to one another. The Chinese development model is shaken to its foundations. Filmmaker Cathy Yan hits a raw nerve with her penetrating debut film.