Part-fiction documentary into the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo traces the anticipation of infrastructure and trade on a planetary scale, following its distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe. Here, government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods.
Voice-over narrator
It was a co-production between: China, United Kingdom.
The film was directed by Solveig Suess.
The screenplay was written by Solveig Suess and Ming Lin.
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Good
3 votes
AAA Cargo
Released
普通话, English
China, United Kingdom
