I’M NEW HERE (2017)

Guangzhou, China. A building erected in the communist style of the eighties: Tian Xiu. Since many years this is the Eldorado for African migrants who massively try their luck in this city. ‘I’m New Here’ sketches a unique look behind the scenes of a new economic relationschip between the African continent and the superpower China through some of the people that populate Tian Xiu.

a film by

BRAM VAN PAESSCHEN

in co-production with

CANVAS, RTBF & VRT

produced by

BART VAN LANGENDONCK

creative producers

TATJANA KOZAR

VINCENT METZINGER

director of photography

EMMANUEL GRAS

editor