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State of Control (2016)

★ 7.2/10 90 min Documentary Unknown English
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Followed, Surveilled, Hacked, Jailed, Sentenced...Are You Next?

Description

Two American filmmakers travel undercover in China and Tibet during one of the most precarious times in the country's recent history. Their journey begins in hot-bed areas of Tibetan activism in India and Nepal, before continuing into the most closed off regions of Tibet, during the full scale media blackout that began in 2008 and continues to this day. Their goal is to meet with leading Tibetan activists who are risking their lives to peacefully protest against oppression by the Chinese government's police state in a region kept "in the dark". Traveling undercover, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds as secret police maintain 24 hour surveillance of the filmmakers. Unable to document their intended subjects, they are forced to turn the cameras on themselves as they become the targets. All their moves are followed, leading to hotel break-ins, equipment theft, and cyber-hacking and spying - ultimately putting the filmmakers' very lives in danger. Forced to flee and return to the US.

Top Cast

Tenzin Tsundue
Tenzin Tsundue Self
Tenzin Seldon Self
Lhamo Tso Self
Dmitri Alperovitch Self
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour Self
Gordon Chang Self
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Self
Tenzin Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso Self

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