Premiere: DR. MA'S COUNTRY CLINIC

The audience success at this year's Forum and now distributed by us: the Chinese documentary DR. MA'S COUNTRY CLINIC (2008, May 1– 3) by Cong Feng. The permanently overcrowded country doctor's practice in Huangyangchuan, a small town in the northwest of China, not only provides medical care by the respectable Dr. Ma, who is specialized in traditional Chinese medicine. The waiting room is also a social gathering place for the ill, where experiences are exchanged and the arduous conditions of everyday life are discussed. "DR. MA'S COUNTRY CLINIC therefore not only treats the illnesses but also the emotional states of people that have been forgotten by the Chinese economic boom." (Gabriela Seidel-Hollaender)