"Smog Journeys" Film by Jia Zhangke (CHN subtitles)

Jia Zhangke, one of China’s most celebrated filmmakers, made this short film commissioned by Greenpeace East Asia tackling the health effects of air pollution on Chinese families in Northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of smog. ‘Smog Journeys’ traces two families from two different backgrounds: one is a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing.
The film challenges China to take action to solve the crisis, as new data released by Greenpeace shows over 90% of the 190 cities to report data in 2014 are exceeding China’s own limit on yearly average level for particulates (PM2.5) in the air.