Please Vote For Me⎜WHY DEMOCRACY?⎜(Trailer)

Описание: Please Vote for Me follows a mini-experiment in democracy with the first ever elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class in Wuhan, a city in central China. This film offers an amusing look at the democratic voting process, through the lens of three 8-year olds as they compete for the coveted position of class monitor, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents.

In China, ‘elections’ only take place within the Communist Party, this one-party rule thereby excluding the possibility of democratic choice. As the Director Weijun Chen writes; “As a Chinese citizen, democracy remains a deep and heartfelt longing”. Despite its humorous tone, Please Vote for Me invites you to seriously examine the challenges to the implementation and practice of democratization not only in China, but around the world.

Filmmaker: Weijun Chen
Producer: Don Edkins
Released: 2007

This film is part of the WHY DEMOCRACY? series. To find out more about the other films in this series head to www.thewhy.dk

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