China's monumental Three Gorges Dam is set to generate 10 Hoover Dams worth of electricity, flood nearly 400 square miles of land, and displace over one million residents. This documentary follows Yu Shui, a young girl sent by her parents to work on the Farewell Cruises, pleasure boats that ferry tourists up and down the quickly vanishing landscape. Beautifully shot and movingly told, Up The Yangtze is a searing film about the human costs of economic progress.
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