Dream Empire

Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who moved to Chongqing to pursue her Chinese Dream. Drawn by the easy riches of China's historic real estate boom, she opens a rental agency to help Chinese real estate developers market their new properties to foreigners. But the business takes a dubious turn as her foreigners are increasingly used in a surreal effort to turn remote rural ghost towns into "globalized booming cities" on the days when outside investors and political leaders visit. As the real estate bubble pops, Yana is forced to sell her company and reassess everything she believed in. Shot over several years, the film is both a personal history and an on-the-ground chronicle of one of the most critical economic issues of our time.