Total Trust

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Total Trust

Released Dec 8, 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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Nick Bradshaw

Sight & Sound

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

Apr 2, 2024

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Dan Einav

Financial Times

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

Rated: 4/5

Feb 19, 2024

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Michael Nordine

Variety

The kind of eye-opening documentary that makes you realize you know far less about its subject than you thought you did — however bad you may think China’s surveillance state is, Zhang can assure you it’s far worse.

Dec 15, 2023

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Vladan Petkovic

Cineuropa

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

Dec 13, 2023

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Jason Gorber

POV Magazine

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.

Dec 12, 2023

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Noel Oakshot

In Review Online

... the resulting film is one of the most incisive, comprehensive, and moving explorations of the way authoritarianism is practiced in the modern world.

Dec 12, 2023

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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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