Total Trust

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Total Trust

2023

1h 37m

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TOTAL TRUST is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary about surveillance technology, abuse of power and censorship. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and AI pose to individual freedoms. A bracing portrait of a society for whom privacy is all but extinct and a warning for democratic states employing unprecedented security tactics, TOTAL TRUST sounds an alarm about the increasing use of surveillance tools around the world. If this is the present, what does our future look like?

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Teresa Xie

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Aug 21

Jialing’s human-centered approach to a harrowing investigation into one of the world’s most expansive surveillance states attends to the heartbreaking realities of so many.

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Nick Bradshaw

Sight & Sound

04/02/2024

A compelling warning of unchecked surveillance, holding an incriminating mirror to our would-be watchers.

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Dan Einav

Financial Times

02/19/2024

4/5

A terrific, frequently terrifying documentary about Chinese surveillance and censorship.

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Vladan Petkovic

Cineuropa

12/13/2023

Zhang Jialing's urgent new documentary tackles state surveillance in China to gripping, frightening and heartbreaking effect.

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Jason Gorber

POV Magazine

12/12/2023

In a land where half a billion cameras are pointed without permission, this is one camera bravely pointed by filmmakers who capture something both cautionary and extraordinarily compelling.

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TOTAL TRUST is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary about surveillance technology, abuse of power and censorship. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and AI pose to individual freedoms. A bracing portrait of a society for whom privacy is all but extinct and a warning for democratic states employing unprecedented security tactics, TOTAL TRUST sounds an alarm about the increasing use of surveillance tools around the world. If this is the present, what does our future look like?

Director: Jialing Zhang
Producer: Jialing Zhang, Michael Grotenhoff, Saskia Kress
Screenwriter: Jialing Zhang
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: IMF, Witfilm, Filmtank
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 8, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.8K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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